Did Hammy forget that Trent let him take the blame for the spitwad? I don’t think I could be friends with someone who threw me under the bus like that.
It was (and maybe still is) a behavior chart system where there’s a column of different colored papers stuck on a board at the front of the classroom and each child has a clothespin or some other clip-type thing that starts at the “good behavior” color(usually green). If a child breaks a rule or misbehaves, their clothespin would be “clipped down” which means it would be moved to the color below it’s current spot. If the clothespin reached the bottom of the chart, that child would get a note sent home to their parents. If they reached the bottom of the chart multiple times, then there would be a meeting with the principal.
Nope, just read about someone waking up to a bunch of baby mantises all over their house because apparently mantises sometimes lay their eggs in Christmas trees.
For someone who didn’t have kids at the time, Bill Watterson portrayed them perfectly in C&H.