Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 11, 2021

For the foreseeable future, only your Mother’s plans matter.

good try, Calvin

Try again in about 15 years, Calvin.

Bill sure had foresight. Today that’s the norm

Wrong way to go about this.

It was worth a shot…

Calvin, your poor mother needs a break.

I’m not going to school today!

Now, if I could only say that about work.

My daughter is not going to school today. She has remote learning this week.

See, going to school taught you about misinformed. It helps.

I remember a couple of kids dropped out of school in Jr High. We looked around and hey, suddenly Bill wasn’t there any more. I always wondered how he worked that one out. I could just imagine going to my parents and saying, “Hey mom, dad? I wanna drop out of school.” They would have kept me attending, bandages, casts and all!

Misinformed about what?

The full transparency approach in communication is overrated. —- C&H

Now you are at school you can get “informed”

Saturday daytime TV (aka cartoons) was the best back in the day and it was an education to see how different it was during the weekday for a kid. Calvin might learn School is more fun…

That was one big drawback to being in a boarding school.

Instead of informing Mom, you should have just snuck off and joined Peppermint Patty on Snoopy’s doghouse (https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2021/03/11?ct=v&cti=2208697)!

How times have changed. The rebellion of Calvin then is the reality of the Calvin’s now. It’s end of the world as we knew it. …sad?

Hmmm, I wonder if a certain furry friend was behind this bit of misinformation.

failed again

Any picture of a student at a school desk will be hanging next to school trophies to honor past accomplishments.

Wrong Calvin, how soon to Principal office?

The soap operas may be X-rated for chidren of your age, Calvin.

Nice “Casablanca” reference.

Looks like there was a last minute change in the program.

In the old days, the best way to convince a kid to go back to school was to let him watch the soap operas on the only broadcast channel available. Even as an adult, I found “Days of our Lives” would get me out of the house faster than anything.

Sigh…it never worked for me, either.

Here’s your update on today’s plans, Calvin: They haven’t changed!

Then he should have let the air out of the car’s tires and not gotten out of bed and dressed in time to meet the bus.

Gotta love mom!

You’d think Bill Watterson would’ve had Calvin try that in the early days of the strip…

Story of my life…

Moms know exactly how to hop the little ones to school.

He was MRS. informed!

on Monday we have full-time school

Calvin was born in the wrong century. Nowadays kids are saying, "I do not want to watch TV all day. I want to go back to school

A huge psychological study was conducted involving two teams of children. One team went through the standard educational process for 12 years. The other team simply watched television during normal school hours for 12 years.

When compared, it was alarmingly discovered that the television-raised children (who had watched Sesame Street and similar shows) were better educated overall than the school children, and knew much more about life in general having been exposed to sitcoms and dramas and shows about life— as opposed to sitting in a classroom and being force-fed whatever the educational system decided to teach them.

The same study produced an additional finding that both groups had a tendency to believe anything they read and watched. :D

Moms trump all.

I feel like Calvin in the second panel on working Mondays.

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