Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 19, 2016

Just a little arrogant, Caulfield. Whay not also give her a point-by-point critique of her teaching methods with a plan for improvement? Lord knows she’d appreciate that.

If nothing else, it’s good for extra credit….

Yeah Caulfield, and the inmates run the asylum too.

bigpuma is not gonna like this strip….

As an educator (professor), I sometimes find Caulfield nice and enthusiastic, sometimes I find him precocious in a positive way, and yet sometimes I also find him rather rude and arrogant.Today’s effort is one of the times where I am of the opinion that his is being rude and arrogant. If he is “so smart” and “so creative” as to write book reports for books not yet assigned as a mechanism to “guide” Mrs. Olsen into what to teach…. he would be a helluva lot nicer kid, if instead he were to do what was assigned, and then work on something creative and interesting that is outside of the classroom, and bring it in to discuss with and seek advice from Mrs. Olsen about. I have had perhaps 3 kids in my university classroom over the many decades that behaved in somewhat of a similar manner to Caulfield. One was arguably “brilliant” like Caufield is portrayed to be, one was reasonably smart, and one was perhaps average. All three…. regardless of intellect did themselves no favors by being rude and arrogant.

Dang, I thought it said “by Prohias”

Or just maybe Caulfield’s (and Mallett’s) point was that teachers of that grade always assign the same books, year after year, and Caulfield has figured it out from talking to other kids who had that teacher for that grade in previous years? (It would make more sense in the context of the strip if Caulfield hadn’t been in the same grade taught by the same teacher for over 15 years now.)

Even if she did take his suggestions seriously, it won’t make him popular with the rest of the kids who haven’t been following his reading list.

As I just asked BigPuma – do ya think Frazz was being sarcastic?

When in doubt, spread confusion.

RussHeimAnd it beats some of the comments found here which are neither apt nor real, but sure are original, or at least the most recent party line.

Many assigned books did nothing for me, but some I liked: Lord of the Flies, A separate peace, All the King’s Men and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest come to mind. A lot of kids liked The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird, but I guess I didn’t get it…

Mrs. Olson should just assign whatever books she wants, and maybe give Caulfield extra credit for whatever reports he turns in that weren’t on her list.