Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 22, 2021

‘Warfare’ seems a bit of a stretch.

Hmm, over react much

“Where else would a child pick up a concept of shooting someone else?! Certainly didn’t get it from TV, books, games or the news!”

Seriously lady they’re kids and she was teaching them how a bow and arrows should be safely handled. Separate they’re not that much more dangerous than a stick.

Tara. please. Just. Stop. Talking.

Parent Overreacting? – will Luann get fired or maybe suspended as a lesson?

Just as i suspected would happen, someone is over-reacting to an otherwise harmless teaching moment.

Doesn’t principal Purgus need to get back to helping Will Smith rid the earth of bad aliens?

School officials would rather fire a good employee than risk offending a single parent.

This will go on your permanent record, Luann?

Interestingly, the front of Lincoln Elementary looks just like the rear of the school where we sasw Tara first on Monday. Only the front has a driveway, no grass and no fence around said playground.

Tara you not helping.

Snowflake parents over reacting to just about everything

Oh sure… They complain about Tara teaching “warfare”. But no one said a blessed thing when Frank was skateboarding off of that school roof earlier this morning!! lol

BTW, note that Principal Purgus’ head is larger than the heads of Luann and Tara. I read years ago that villains in the comics were drawn with larger heads than the other characters.

The trouble is that Tara is an unapproved guest. Maybe some private schools would allow her as an invited guest to discuss the safe handling of arrows, but at elementary school level, it would be unheard of in the public schools. With violence in schools during the past three decades, the rules are very strict. There was a time when schools were used as family playgrounds during off school hours. Now one can be arrested for tresspassing.

No, Tara you are a pain, besides being irresponsible and you cause more problems than you are worth

Leaning a little too close to today’s current events. Tara is an undocumented alien and the parent is a domestic terrorist. Let’s probe real problems, like is Fay still too young to wear makeup?

I’m sorry for Luann. But this looks like the beginning of the end of her career as a school teacher… GOOD! Now she could bring out the artistic side of her and finally begin to seriously study art! Maybe go back to the theater, study to become a set designer, an actress, a sculptor. She has the skills to do it, but the idea of becoming a teacher was distracting her!

And likely that parent’s child was the one who wanted Tara to shoot the apple! Yeah, in real life guest speakers have to go thru the protocols of approval, but I had hoped that in cartoon land, with an after school program, this could be more fluid. The girls probably should have stayed outside on the playground.

Ha, these two probably would be mindless enough to let every child shoot an arrow at something. “This is the SAFE way to hold it, Duncan!” But Luann is demonstrably out of line, because she let Tara in. And Tara is not supposed to be there. But it doesn’t matter, they’ve done dumber things and will continue to do so.

Enter the Karen…

Good thing this isn’t Norway.

I have a sneaking hunch that Tara’s mouth is going to get Luann in deeper trouble than what she already is. Luann should have stood her ground and not let Tara run over her. Tara should have stayed on the outside of the fence. The fence should have been a lot taller. The clock should back up about an hour to just before the incident started…

She is an unapproved guest tho…

Ummmmmmm……..last time I looked, archery was an olympic sport…..?

Tara is right. Parents can be a pain—even when their kids are grown!!

For Pete’s sake. Yeah, it’s not that elementary schools have low tolerance for unauthorized visitors and ZERO tolerance for unauthorized weapons. No, this is a problem because talking vaguely about archery will lead to the children invading foreign countries or something. So much for anyone in this story acting like an adult with a functioning brain.

My affinity for alliteration aside, Principal Purgus has to be one of the more amusingly unusual names I’ve heard for a school administrator since Principal Huggins.

Can’t a comic just be funny, and not over analyzed to the point of exhaustion?

Warfare to a child. Okay. I suppose when cutting a sandwich in half, that is teaching knife-fighting?

He is right, primary school is not the place to learn warfare. I learned warfare in kindergarden, playing cowboys and ind… er, cliche native americans from the time of John Ford movies.

“You want warfare? I’ll show you warfare.”

So much for alternate ending that Tara would get hired on.

Keep digging that hole deeper, Tara..

Misconception led to overreaction by the parent here, who thought the worst of what Luann and Tara were doing (suppose it was a contractor showing and telling power tools?). But indeed, the Principal has to address even one complaint. Fergus is right that he should have known ahead of time.

Gee.

What’s “mom” gonna do when the kids are older and they are taught World/American History?

A significant part of which is filled with warfare?

Have a stroke?

Like it or not, “warfare” is a part of human history.

Not teaching the kiddies about it is not going to make it go away.

My apologies to those I thought were conclusion jumping yesterday. You seemed to have hit the nail on the head. This is turning out to be interesting … :-)

Shut UP, Tara.

Like I said yesterday.

I’m going off the main topic, but today’s strip brought up something that bugs me. Have you ever noticed that in TV shows (and now in this strip) a school principal is referred to as “Principal X”? I’ve never heard that in real life.

When I was a kid, I called my principal Mr. Jones or Dr. Stevens. My kids did the same. What about you guys? Did you actually call your principal “Principal” like it was his or her name, or did you go with Mr., Mrs., Ms., Dr., etc.?

Kids will weaponize anyone, so that part is simply stupid. But the rules against unapproved guests makes sense – and Luann should have known that. (They don’t want people wandering in off the streets to teach the kids how to speak in tongues, join the Na*i party, or be photographed in suggestive poses.) Guests must be cleared is standard procedure pretty much everywhere. Will strip focus on the bogus ‘warfare’ charge or the violation of reasonable policy?

Like DJT said, everything woke turns to ____.

yup she was a karen, leaping to conclusions and clearly everyone else is wrong

Our good friends, moral guardians have struck again.

Tara is one of these people who has no empathy, and is also completely amoral. She wants what she wants and doesn’t care about who she harms in order to get it. She barrels through life, oblivious and uncaring about how her words and actions affect other people. She is the bull in the china shop which runs around, breaking everything, then cries and plays the victim when others get angry at her.

Warfare? Really? And when this this turn into the days of Robin hood and olden England?

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I wonder what cartoons her kid watches. Since I don’t have any kids myself, it’s been quite a while since I watched Saturday morning cartoons, but I seem to remember a lot of them being quite violent.

Good grief…it was probably her kid wanting the apple shot!

Boy, I feel sorry for that child with a parent like that.

Next week’s physics lesson: The Trebuchet

No adult can participate in an on campus school event without local law enforcement first checking their name against the sx offender registry. Luann would be fired for failing that. But since sx doesn’t exist in the luanverse, she’s okay.

In today’s world Archery is considered “warfare”? Besides that “Karen” overreacted, just like a stereotypical “Karen.” Unless Greg omitted a scene or two, Tara just showed the kids her gear, no shooting of anykind took place.

Because the only conceivable use for a bow and arrow is warfare. It’s not like people ever used them to hunt for food or anything like that.

Unapproved guest….a valid point. Luann should have run a guest speaker by her boss before having Tara speak to the class. Warfare? That part is pretty ridiculous. But sounds like how some parents I know would react.

Coming up next week: is archery a cultural appropriation of Native Americans?

This would be funny only if it weren’t so likely to happen IRL.

Karen wouldn’t like the elementary school i went to.. 6th grade P.E. included Friday archery.

Move to Texas. Teach kids in kindergarten how to shot an AK47

It seems like there should have been a lot more to a lesson on “warfare”. Maybe that parent can take the kids to the movies…..or Afghanistan – LOL!

the parent should have had been a blonde to complete the "karen’ picture.

I can get both sides of this argument. As a former early childhood teacher, I get the unapproved guest argument. Yeah, it was not a good idea for Tara to be pulled in like that without talking to someone first. But….I am getting major helicopter parent vibes from this and it’s making me remember the times I had parents and administrators attempt to accuse me of child endangerment and actually called CPS on me. Now, both times, even the CPS agents were like “okay, we’ve talked to you and we can’t see anything wrong with what you’ve done and all your co-workers have had nothing but good things, as have the parents we’ve talked to, so I don’t know who is acting the fool, but you’re good”….but it got too awful to deal with the issues of having someone attempt to ruin my reputation…twice, so I left teaching completely. I really hope Luann, if she wants to teach, has a better experience to outweigh this one.

If there is no point on an arrow is it a weapon? Is an arrow with no bow a weapon? Would it be a “spear?” I have no idea.

P.S. Why is this an arc? Is someone trying to teach a lesson here? Or just rile up some folks.

Well, Sun Tzu she ain’t….

My daughter’s gym class in high school is teaching archery. So much better than when I was a kid and gym class was nothing but dodgeball and running around the top of the bleachers.

War is the only possible use for a bow and arrow. Especially today.Right, parent?

Nailed it….EB

Next panel she will be teaching CRT

I’m waiting for Luann (who has been volunteering at the school since the early 2000’s) to ask if they have ever had a policy for ‘approved’ guests.Luann is due a shakeup in her life as while secondary characters have grown, she has had little development in the past year

This is really what’s wrong with our society these days. Everyone feels it’s okay to be offended by almost anything.

Get back to being funny!

Karens will be KARENS

One of the quicker Luann arcs – as if Luann arcs ever last that long in the first place! Usually about two weeks in length, this one looks over in one!

One and done!

Other thoughts: Just because she has bows and arrows doesn’t mean she’s teaching warfare. Bows and arrows can be used for hunting, too.

Oh! That parent is a vegan, too? Yeah, I’m with Aladar30 above who said, looks like Luann’s teaching days are through!

oh my goodness….I just can’t anymore…I just can’t…cancel culture (or whatever this is that helicopter parenting has turned into) just needs to end. My head hurts now.

“Yes, that is the modern method of conducting warfare. She caught me dead to rights.”

I think the real issue here is that Luann didn’t run this by anyone else first. The school does need to vet any guest speakers on order to make sure their teaching something appropriate and to give parents a heads up so they won’t freak out

Depend on a helicopter parent to crash the party!

Warfare!? THERE IS NO BOW! No where visible is there a bow!Offended snow flake alert!That is just a total fabrication. Gee, where is Greg going with this arc?We got a lot of stuff going on here folks.Popcorn. I need some popcorn.As mentioned, the TV and movies and music today and video games have all detailed murder and mayhem for our children’s easy access.Perhaps he will burn Tara at the stake for her showing what just a few decades ago before gunpowder was a necessary tool for survival to those children. Good grief!I think maybe Greg is on vacay and CNN is writing the strip this week.

Warfare? What a moron!

I guess I am stuck wondering…Who is the bigger dipsh*t here? Is it the dimwitted parent who is overreacting in their attempt to insulate little Skippy or Buffy from the realities of the world? Is it the tukus smooching administrator who is trying to placate and validate the dimwit? I guess I need to know where the complainer’s lives to make the leap of logic necessary to go from the sport of archery to shooting people with bow and arrows.

Wow, the crowd here seems to have done a complete 180 on the importance of following rules. Because Luann is getting a lot more understanding and leeway than we’d see if her role in this storyarc was instead being filled by, let’s say, Stef. Rules sure mattered a lot more just last month, after all.

I shot an arrow into the air it hit a liberal and I did not care….

The indignant, self-righteous parent. The spineless, kowtowing school administrator.

Where have we seen this before?

Boy I should know that predicting where an arc will go by Saturday in this strip is perilous. I predicted that in the end no harm will come to Luann or Tara here. Tara’s smart-aleck—but verities based—remark makes that prediction seem in real peril. But misdirection play is still possible.

I KNEW Tara would take the offensive on this!Shoot an apple off Frozen-Face Woman’s head. .Nicely,of course.

I think the Principal would rather crawl under a desk than address the issue anyway.

They can indeed. They have sex, produce offspring and think that makes experts in any number of fields.

Luann has been working there for a couple years. She absolutely knows she cannot allow her friends to stroll in and play with the kids. It does not matter what Tara was doing with them. It is completely wrong for Tara to be there.

Oh no! A “Karen” on Luann.

Coddling the children makes them weak. Growing up in the 1970s, during & after the Vietnam War, we had cap pistols and you had to count to 10 to come back to life.

Jumping to conclusions is the only exercise some of these mothers get.

Parent rhymes (sorta) with Karen…

…Karent?

The teachers are afraid they will get screeching parents coming to the school board meeting. Oh, wait that’s already happening.

For over 100 years, archery has been part of kids education and summer camp activities, along with canoeing, and swimming. Any connection with “warfare” is only in fantasy. Parents can not only be a pain. Some can be idiots.

Purgus is a dick.

Oh, here we go with the politics! Just so you know, archery control doesn’t work as well as you think! If you take all the bows from responsible people, only bad people will have bows! Blah-blah-blah, tired arguments against gun control but replaced with bows and arrows, you get the gist.

OOO. Tara is minimizing the situation. Challenging Principal Purgus’ authority.

it’s called sports sir, football is WAY more dangerous and imitatable than archery but parents rarely bat an eye at that

I guess this parent doesn’t watch the Olympics or the outdoor channels. Just old cowboy and indian movies.

From the comments, I am appalled to see many people being dismissive about metal arrowheads on these sticks. They are much larger than any other petty “weapons” in the classroom and can penetrate much deeper than anything else in the classroom. It also can KILL. Come on guys. Yes, it’s an ancient weapon – it IS still a weapon. It was made to kill animals and for WAR. Now that guns have been invented, arrows have been minimized as a “recreational sport.” However, it has no place in a classroom. If a parent wants their child to learn archery, they can go to a safe place where they get proper instruction on how to handle an ancient weapon. Someone mentioned that their SCHOOL taught archery. Yikes. That school has no common sense or view it as a recreational sport without realizing the ramifications of them being turned into weapons at a moment’s notice. A rejected romance. Betrayed friend. Bullied victim. Etc. They go to the gym, grab a set and spring the arrowhead into their perpetrators – or do that during archery class. Possible scenarios are endless. Metal arrowheads could not be compared to other “sharp” objects that can inflict harm but do not kill. Now, I understand some modern arrowheads are made with strong type of rubber or sucker where they make contact with the bullseye and stay attached. THAT I can get aboard for teaching archery.

Yes, but was the complaining parent vaccinated and did she wear a mask?

If there was an actual warfare class in school I wouldn’t have skipped so much…

“Unapproved guest” is all that is important, here. But I have a bigger question- since when is Luann in an elementary school? She isn’t a teacher, obviously. I thought she was a daycare worker at, you know, a Daycare facility. Regardless, she should have known the procedure for having a guest. It’s very strange to see a school principal handling this. I expected to see a facility director or something. Anyway, I expect she will be fired, which is hopefully the point of all this (to move her story in another direction, that is).

Eyeroll…..

Libs ruin everything.

While Tara did a good job with her presentation to the kids she’s definitely not saying the right things here. Luann is on the hot seat and Tara isn’t helping.

Oh well, Luann’s getting “Canceled” for sure now.

Cancel culture strikes again!

Why was the parent in the classroom? It was probably HER kid that made the “bad guys” comment

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Heck of a stretch there… teaching warfare?

I went to Lincoln Elementary School!

That parent is such a *itch.

I’ll bet that guy still hasn’t got his underpants unwedged from junior high

In other words a karen.

WARFARE??? They better not let their kids turn on the TV.

Teach them warfare? Parents ignorant of their own children who they mistakenly see as cherubs not wannabe Rambos.

Double trouble from Principal Purgus! Luann faces a stern talking-to, or a written reprimand, or maybe even termination. And Tara might actually be facing criminal charges (trespass, carrying weapons on school ground, advocating violence, etc.). Depends on much of a Hard Case Purgus is or isn’t….

says the woman that looks like an CIA agent

Go elsewhere now!

Oh my gosh, the school board just realized that the arrow is a phallic symbol, so not only are they teaching warfare, they are also teaching sexuality.

If Mama Helicopter gets Luann fired, her kids gonna get his rear kicked. In case you haven’t noticed, the kids LOVE Miss Luann.

So I guess the parent never lets her kids watch TV or movies or read books or doesn’t want them to learn history.

If you’re curious, yes, Luann is in trouble. Head on over to Arcamax if you can’t wait until tomorrow.

I suppose a bottom line is that Tara was trespassing and it appeared that Luann led her to the classroom and should be fired.Silly to bring up the danger of the arrow unless the children were allowed to handle it. Damned silly to make an issue of broadhead since the girl was on the way from target practice. May as well argue the merits of flaming arrowheard or projectiles in general.

Snowflakes or just flakes…..

The next time there is a war, let’s see how long the side with the bows and arrows last…who does she think Tara is, Hawkeye from the Avengers?

Ugh. I see where this is going. Reminds me of the parents that were anti-military and thought JROTC was teaching HS kids about warfare, combat, and to be killers one day. What nonsense.

Poor, Tara. Welcome to Biden’s WOKE America.