Peanuts by Charles Schulz for November 04, 2020

Sally gets an automatic A for what she wrote in the last panel!

Don’t hand that in, Sally.

My late mom often parodied “The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain” as “The rain in Spain goes mainly down the drain.”

I would give Sally a B+ in penmanship. An a possible C for content. She at least tried. And her sentence structure seems OK.

A wide-ranging and mostly factual report, with a foregone conclusion. Love it! :D

Sally is obviously a member of the “Bored of Education”.

Gotta say Sally’s final analysis ain’t that far off…

A wide rain-ging report there, Sally!

I once read a story about the poem. Finally one day the rain didn’t go away and it started raining constantly.

I still remember the first poem I ever wrote, when I was in 2nd grade: I love to hear the rain pitter-pat on my roof…Some people don’t like rain, but I do…Rain makes the grass grow…And then, sometimes, when it is done, there is a rainbow.

While her overall report is too stupid even for a little girl, her last panel thought is really quite profound. She speaks of her education going down the drain. There are those in education having a rethink about the value of a four year college degree. More are opting out of the full four year program and instead going to a two year tech school or certificate education experience. And experience is the key as more and more employers are looking for those with ability, not just the cognizance to know what cognizance means. High tech jobs now require the ability to work with computers. Even the once lowly secretary must be at least comfortable with Word and Excel, not to mention being able to type 40 wpm. I’ve been trying to find a job for a friend, but she lacks the skills to do the jobs that her body will allow. The jobs that would allow her to sit most of time would also require her to know computers and their programs, a thing she hates doing. But those willing to put out the effort to get the skills to do the job will find good paying positions in the waiting. And most of that skill development training is not to be found in the four year education.

Does every character write in cursive?

Last panel really spoke to me

One of the worst parts of teaching is lack of living on the part of students. They have no idea what knowledge and skills they’re going to need, and it’s difficult to convince them it might be more than they already have.

I think her teacher might agree.

Must be another oral report, which is why Sally gets laughed at a lot in class.

One of my faves! xD

Another great report from Sally.

Rain is also hard on the ‘Itsy Bitsy Spider.’

My education went down the drain years ago. Pennywise grabbed it all.

Sally keeps pushing that envelope in class, doesn’t she?

“If it were not for the rain…” Snoopy would have to come up with an alternative opening for his novels. “It was a bright and fair-weathered day” just doesn’t possess the same drama.

Not a bad closing paragraph….

It was a dark and stormy night

A little light on science; I’m guessing she wrote that last night?

I’ve had homework that went that way – just downhill from the start and instead of a pen it felt like I was using a shovel and getting deeper. Sometimes you just have to cut the losses.

Sally took the more practical approach in her report rather than the scientific one.

I blame Common Core

My handwriting looks similar to that. Very similar.

Anyway, that’s one heck of a report. She’s not afraid to say how it is.

A++

xxx

And after reading Sally’s reports, that’s where her teacher feels their career is going.

Kind of a wide-open subject—“Rain”

Panel 4 is pretty deep…but that’s not unusual for Charles Schulz…