Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 21, 2022

I often found it best to do the homework only a day or so ahead, otherwise, I was too likely to ask a question that “we will cover THAT in a few more days”. Also if you get TOO far ahead, you have trouble with the tests.

I always did my homework as soon as I got home from school.

At Caulfield’s age, I did it before I left school.

No, you inferred

Huh? Lemme reread this . .

Strange connection in this one. Maybe Caulfield is saying he wouldn’t get a higher grade for doing hw early. But can’t see how that relates to Mrs O’s statement about won’t do itself.

I am missing something on this one. ??

If you put money in a bank account that pays compound interest, the money you deposit earns interest…and then the interest earns more interest. (This was more noticeable back when banks paid 3% or 4% interest, rather than the 0.05% or so that is more common these days.)

So Caulfield is imagining homework doing more homework—the opposite of Mrs. Olsen’s assertion that homework isn’t going to do itself—and drawing an analogy between interest earning more interest and the idea of homework doing more homework.

It wasn’t just a stretch; there aren’t enough rubber bands in the school to accommodate it.

And you can take that to the bank.

Or maybe doing homework is like money in the bank – it pays off in the long run.

When I was in grade school, I often wished that they would’ve given me the whole year’s homework on the first day, so I could have it polished off by the end of the first week and could just coast thereafter.

“no point”? Doesn’t it give you more free time after school?

Or asexual reproduction.