Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 17, 2019

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    BE THIS GUY  about 5 years ago

    Dad should know his money is safe even if he had accepted the deal.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 5 years ago

    Calvin forgot to add a price for every F. Perhaps a penny’s worth?

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    rshive  about 5 years ago

    But bribery at least helps part of the family.

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    retrocool  about 5 years ago

    nice try Calvin

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    enigmamz  about 5 years ago

    Sounds like the escalating rates the Tooth Fairy has been getting.

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    codycab  about 5 years ago

    Either way, you’d still be broke, Calvin.

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    Concretionist  about 5 years ago

    We had a system kind of like that when I was a kid. For every A you got an attaboy and your choice of desert sometime in the next week. For every B you got an attaboy and (for me) a small talk about what it would take to get it up to an A. For every C you got to wash dishes. For a week. For a D or an F.

    I dunno: Nobody ever dared see what would happen.

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    Baarorso  about 5 years ago

    Nose to the grindstone Calvin. Studying makes you smare and of course…builds character.

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    bluram  about 5 years ago

    You dummy, you should’ve started out with nickels and dimes.

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    sapepgoldman  about 5 years ago

    So… he’s planning to get 4 Ds? Either that, or his math skills are part of the joke here

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    orinoco womble  about 5 years ago

    My brother tried that system with his lazy son. It worked as an incentive for about 3 weeks at the start of every term, but he never actually had to shell out.

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    JudyHendrickson  about 5 years ago

    wow!!! dream on kid!!!

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    qct  about 5 years ago

    His standards were way to high. Should have held out for $.50 for a D-

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    Watcher  about 5 years ago

    But Dad, you bribing me builds character for me and you.

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    nuncanunca  about 5 years ago

    I don’t think even back when this was published that elementary school kids were getting actual letter grades …. they didn’t where I was, anyway.

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    Red33410  about 5 years ago

    Dammit, my hope just was to score an easy $4!

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    DanFlak  about 5 years ago

    Hold that thought, Calvin. You have a future in marketing and advertising.

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    TwilightFaze  about 5 years ago

    There was no system like that in my house. You just had to look at my parents faces. A got a “good job,” B got smiles and a hair ruffle (sometimes), C got a shrug, D got a frown and a glare, and F got “the look” with a talking-to soon after.

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    A Hip loving Canadian...  about 5 years ago

    Bribe is such an ugly word, let’s call it an ‘incentive’ instead.

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    jpayne4040  about 5 years ago

    Easy money is very hard to come by, Calvin!

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    uniquename  about 5 years ago

    Geez. In my house, A’s and B’s were expected. C’s you got a lecture and sometimes a bit more, D’s you got walloped.

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    dlkrueger33  about 5 years ago

    My son never applied himself, allowing himself to fail each year, knowing he could go to summer school, do minimal work and pass the grade THAT way. I told him if he passed the regular term, I would take him (and his sister) to the Caribbean or Disney or other great trip. Didn’t matter. I always ended up going with just my daughter. My son stayed with his grandparents who gave him a better vacation than he would have had in the Caribbean, all while chauffeuring him daily to summer school. He didn’t miss our trip at all. I tried this for several years….just didn’t seem to be an incentive. I wish my parents hadn’t mollycoddled him to this degree – it just never felt like punishment to him!

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    Who, me?  about 5 years ago

    I seem to remember 5 subjects in elementary school; arithmetic, social studies, language, science and health. I don’t know about first grade where Calvin is, I can’t remember that far back.

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    Calvinist1966  about 5 years ago

    When I was at Junior School, we had a spelling test each Friday. My dad listened to my results and offered me a bar of chocolate whenever I got 18/20. I started getting either 18 or 19 correct spellings each week so Dad told me I would only get the chocolate bar when I got 19/20. Naturally, I studied harder to continue getting a chocolate bar each week.

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    flagmichael  about 5 years ago

    For whatever reason, I was unaware of report cards until 6th grade; I was just told to take them home. Then a classmate asked what grades I got and I answered in all my wisdom, “Huh?”

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    Triker2011  about 5 years ago

    Not sure what my major malfunction was in school. We receieved either an S (Satisfactory) or U (Unsatisfactory) in grades 1, 2, & 3. A’s, B’s, C’s, D’s, & F’s started in 4th Grade. No Preschool or Kindergarten. I did OK till late in the 5th grade I started a gradual decline. I failed 6th grade (VERY humilating) and it was then discovered I had poor eyesight. Got my first pair of glasses in my second year of sixth grade. But my study habits by then had taken a severe hit. If I got lucky enough to get a “C” I felt like it was the equivalent of an A+. I dropped out of highschool my senior year, joined the Army, got my GED but regretfully never returned to school. My Father worked 2 and sometimes 3 jobs. My Mother dropped out of school before she reached the 8th grade. I don’t blame my parents. Maybe the school for not figuring out what my problem was sooner? I am talking small schools. 2 & 3rd grade was taught at the same time, by the same teacher, in the same classroom. There was no Junior High School. Grades 1-8 were taught in the same building. I would have been the 58th Senior in highschool had I finished. And that was 2 towns combined. Did I fail or was it the system?

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    BiggerNate91  about 5 years ago

    My teachers wouldn’t have let this happen. They always said, “There will be no consequences, positive or negative, due to your grades.”

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    Mediatech  about 5 years ago

    I was always a straight-B student. I was always being told “you can do better”. I always wondered, if they already knew I could do it, what did I have left to prove?

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    MoisesPadilla  about 5 years ago

    My dad used to bribe us in elementary school: 0.9, 0.8 or 0.7 would mean we received 9, 8 or 7 cents, but for each perfect 10/10 he gave us 10 bucks! It was a nice system that made us work really hard for those 10/10.

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    jvn  about 5 years ago

    At least he’s not greedy.

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    bloodykate  about 5 years ago

    This made me LOL!

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    1MadHat Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Heck, that’s not only child labor, but it’s not even minimum wage!! 8^)

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    1MadHat Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Heck, that’s not only child labor, but it’s not even minimum wage!! 8^)

    I was what was later called “Gifted Under Achiever”. Had all of my books read in a few weeks and rarely had to crack them during the year. I would ace most of the tests, but I was bored stiff with homework. I knew the stuff, but got stiffed.

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    lawrence.anderson  about 5 years ago

    For some reason my oldest sister did not do well in high school physics (she has always been one to look up to, though). I asked my father if he would give me a prize if i got an A in physics when the time came. He just looked at me strangely, and said “That’s the grade we expect out of you.”

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    locake  about 5 years ago

    If parents give out money for A’s and B’s they should charge an equal amount for D’s and F’s. If the kid gets $5 for an A they have to pay the parents $5 for an F.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  about 5 years ago

    In the animated series “Daria” when her slacking sister finally got an “A” Dad gave her $20. Daria who makes “A’s” all of the time demanded compensation too.

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    johnec  about 5 years ago

    Perhaps if every A was $10 and every B was $5 and every C was -$5 and every D was -$10.

    Calvin, please pay your Dad $40.

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    Scoutmaster77  about 5 years ago

    For my kids it was $5 for an A only. If it was straight As, I would double his money. He got all As one time so he “could prove to me that could do it.”

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    fix-n-fly  about 5 years ago

    Yes Calvin – apply yourself now while you have the chance.

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    UpaCoCoCreek Premium Member about 5 years ago

    D-D-D-Darn it!

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    hagarthehorrible  about 5 years ago

    That makes your grade to above D and a little below C. I think you have bargained for more than you can chew.

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