Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 22, 2023

There are some subjects / categories that are worth setting into your long term memory. Caulfield, in the best of all possible worlds, would be able to test out of the boring “never again” stuff and move on to harder/more interesting worksheets. Of course, no public grade school IS in the “best of even several worlds” category. I could tell you stories about teachers in our local high quality grade school that caters to the kids of university professors among others. Things like learning to multiply by putting squares in an array that’s as wide as the ‘a’ in a times b and as tall as the ‘b’. And being demeaning if the kid makes it ‘b’ wide and ‘a’ high because the teacher had NO IDEA that it’s the same thing.

I think my daughter once knew every line of Tommy Boy.

Maybe she still does.

Everything is a concept of relativity?

Say “to heck with it” and go to college immediately!

Been done many times!

After the 12th time? I think that answers his question.

It’s like learning to tie knots – use it or lose it.

CASE #1: My son “mastered” the driving maneuver on his first try; he then refused to practice before his exam … do I need to continue? Of course, he failed.

CASE #2: How many golf ball have been hit by any of the competitors in the US Open, Masters, British Open, etc prior to that event? Yet every one of them will hit at least a bucket of balls on the range before each round and a practice swing before every shot that counts.

First day of summer! They are still in school?

Garth knows all the words to “Bohemian Rhapsody”…

Long practice assures that one can repeat the ‘lucky shot’ that got him/her started in the first place.

Been to Rocky Horror, one guy in the audience broke us up by talking to Frank at the end

FWIW, the first 5 minutes of Up basically comprise one of the most affecting, heart-wrenching silent movies of all time.

That was me back in 7th grade – 4th-6th grades I was in a school where we could go at our own pace in several subjects, so I was well into the 8th grade math book by the time I left. Then off to junior high where they didn’t care, so I’m back doing 7th-grade math, and going “I already know all this stuff, why waste my time doing the homework.” Aced all the tests, consistently 100% or better (thanks to extra credit)… but dinged every day for not turning in my homework, and then dinged at the end of the semester for not having the homework I didn’t do in my notebook and also for not having any notes.

One of my biggest regrets, because the top-scoring kids got to basically skip 8th-grade math the next year and move to a different track, and I feel like my life would’ve been extremely different had I gotten on a track where I was maybe less bored.

note the balloons on Frazz’s shirt…

If you do it right you can skip grades

“UP”? You’re kidding, right? Is that part of the joke? Now, The Princess Bride, on the other hand…

It took him 12 times to learn UP. He should at least do 12 problems on the worksheet.