Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 30, 2014

Manipulating the system is an important survival skill – Mrs. Wormwood has done well.

this is pretty much how I feel the the school system.

That might not be Miss Wormwoods take on all this .

One of my favourites ever.

Look on the bright side. At least you have learnt something today be it useless.

I wouldn’t say that, but then I’m no teacher.

The goal of No Child Left Behind captured in one strip!

Every once in a while we had a teacher that taught with an entertainment style that got our attention, which is why we may have retained a crumb or two: voice inflection and different adjectives.

i know how you can get out of school, calvin. bring a toy gun to school and BOOM!! youll be expelled faster then you can say freedom!

Probably depends on how much you want to learn. I learned despite the education system, was willing to put up with poor grades in order to read through the encyclopaedia. I suspect Watterson might have had to do that to develop his art/communication talent to the extent that he did.

We had relatives meet them with a banner that said “Welcome to Plymouth Rock, Now go home!”

Calvin has quite a vocabulary for a six-year old.

Not entirely useless. You could use it for your PIN number when you get a little older.

I was horrible at algebra in 8th grade and had to go back down to pre-algebra. I felt very stupid. In 9th grade I got a teacher that knew how to make it click for me. In fact, he got me to double up in math each year so I could catch up and eventually pass everyone. By the time I was graduating I was taking advanced calculus courses and doing well. He was a great teacher.

Sadly, the answer being sought on the test was “Tuesday”

Which is the problem with linking the children’s grades to the teacher’s salary. Teaching kids whose parents do not value education is much harder than teaching the children of professionals. Many of the people in the lower strata are not as smart as the people in wealthier areas, so their children are not as smart. It can be turned around, but kids in tough situations, like all kids, need help at home, school, church, etc. It does take a village….

Just you wait, Calvin. In 20 years that could be the clue for Final Jeopardy and could cost you the championship.

Education is about gaining perspective, Calvin (and too many others) don’t care about any perspective but their own.

this is how I feel about a lot of school…

Sounds like Calvin has had enough education already.

Personally, all I know about math is that 2 + 2 = 22.

Even worse, he hasn’t learned not to split infinitives. The educational system has failed him indeed.

A couple of years ago my wife and I went to see the actual Plymouth Rock. We were shocked to see “1620” etched on it. I mean of all the trillions of rocks the pilgrims could have stepped on, what were the odds of them doing so on a rock that bore the year of their arrival on it? Probably about the same as Lou Gehrig dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease. Just goes to show that truth is stranger than fiction.

Hope it wasn’t too difficult to memorise four numbers, Calvin.xxx

Well, it’s about time.

My daughters are in kindergarten and fourth grade. They have never been asked to memorize random information. They do still have to memorize sight words, spelling, and multiplication tables, but those are all key building blocks for further learning.

A more apt question on Calvin’s exam would be, “Why did the Pilgrims come to America?”

Well your brain can only hold so much and then it starts leaking out your ears. lol

This is what my teacher says the public school is like. Stuff ’em full of knowledge, make them regurgitate it with a test, and they go out and forget it.

Calvin dude teachers are way overpaid and don’t do their jobs at all. My 6th grade teacher was a born loser. She use to make bigot remarks and slap kids across the face. She is burning in hell now where she belongs.

Well, Calvin - apparently your “useless” vocabulary and grammar training came in handy for your written response!

Sometime calvin is right, other times he is wrong. this time he is right.