Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 17, 2021

That’s right Lucy, let’s not get reality in the way of fiction!!

paying attention in class is very costly, all those day-dreams escape away.

When the teacher says Pop Quiz Time, act like you need to vomit and they’ll send you home. At least they did with me!

“Let’s deal with reality here, OK?” she said to her talking horse.

This is why I never understood the point of homework or studying or even taking notes. I paid attention in class.

She has enough sense to realize that she doesn’t have enough sense to pay attention.

Once, when I had a pop quiz, I snuck some bubble gum and popped a loud bubble. The class began to giggle. When asked what I thought I was doing, I replied to the teacher, “It’s a pop quiz.” Everybody in the classroom laughed out loud, except one. She sent me to the principal’s office. I’m pretty sure the girl next to me on the bench was Danae.

Maybe I was a weirdo, but I paid attention in class and did my homework during Study Halls. After school I was free to do chores or play and tests are easy if you know the answers. Not that hard.

Yes, I’m pragmatic, but it doesn’t mean I’m going to fail just for doing nothing.

Good to see Lucy; it seems like it’s been a while.

Some lectures hold your attention. Some less so. Some, are subject to prescription as sleep aids.

At least half of paying attention in the lecture is on the lecturer.

I used to read a book and listen in class at the same time. Teachers would try to catch me out but I could tell them what they were just talking about, so it was a pointless exercise. Of course, this was in grammar school, not college, where, even if you are paying attention, the professor might not be talking about anything that will be on the test.

when she flunks it they’ll blame the teacher for not doing a better job

My little pain-in-the-neck Pony.

I do not know where I was mentally, but I was to in the class room mentally. Maybe I was studying for a test.

Problem is, so many subjects are so boring

She is truly lost in space or paraphrased … she is out of her mind!

“We don’t need no education. We don’t need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. TEACHER! Leave them kids alone”. Compliments of Roger Waters.

First grade is when I learned to space out. The trick is to wait till you get it and then explore enlightenment while the teacher explains it again to the other kids.

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Hours of dull droning lecturing could put anyone into a state of catatonia.

I was a pain in the neck to most of my grammar and jr-high teachers. I’d take out a book and openly read during their classes. When they challenged me on it, I’d ask them, very politely, to ask me any question on their class subject. That included asking what they just were discussing. Most learned quickly not to take up that request.

When they did, I’d answer the question – succinctly but politely, and then quietly go back to reading. They couldn’t say I was wrong, or that I was rude to them, or disruptive to my classmates. Mostly, they just left me alone to read what I wanted.

But there was a cost. I had to make 100% on the quizzes and tests – each time, every time. That was implicit. Oh, and if called upon to answer a question in class, I had to be paying just enough attention to know what the question had been and to answer it.

There are none so blind as those who will NOT see …

I’m sorry. My Reality Check Bounced.