Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for May 11, 2022

As Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (1917-1986) used to say, “[Gracie], you’ve got some explaining to do!”

Yessssssssssss!!! This is glorious! Thank you!

Rather revealing. (But not what you think).

Por Que?

So… Who’s wrong? Gracie or the lesson plan?

Maybe Gracie is having a nightmare

Does the ‘D’ stand for double-check your answer?

Wow! Can’t wait to see why they are all wrong.

When I was in 5th grade we had a timed quiz of 20 questions. The first one said to read each one then take quiz. The last one said put your name on top right and do nothing else. All the others had you doing weird stuff like tearing a small corner off top left of sheet, go up to chalkboard and put an X, stuff like that. Almost all of us, me included, failed this. The “lesson” was to follow direction. This was 50 plus years ago and never forgot it.

Got a feeling the teacher thinks that Gracie cheated somehow since she finished so fast and gave her that grade as a result. Just guessing, could certainly be wrong.

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN!

I’ve read about this in real life where the kid is a genius and the teacher thinks they are cheating. Then the teacher and student are put in a room and the kid is given an oral exam and proves they know what they know.

Take a little more time to read the questions before answering them. A grade is based on how well you did something, not how fast. Some teachers word their questions in a way that takes a little thought to understand them. Even if the subject is science or history reading comprehension is still important.

That would have to be a shock.

It had to happen one day…

I’m not going to be hasty. In grade 8 I had a teacher who tried to accuse me of cheating because I finished a vocab test in 15 minutes and got 100. My mother came down and verbally took the woman apart. Vocabulary was one of our family strong suits.

Yep, this definitely fragile her ego

HOW?…..

Wondering just how this is gonna end…

Rip

In Chemistry, in high school, I got one concept exactly backwards on a test (so I clearly understood the idea, just mixed up the terms). Got over it, it didn’t really matter to my grade the rest of the year. Gracie may need to learn that lesson.

Watch out, please, for overconfidence.

Say it ain’t so, Gracie!

Speed matters little if it wrecks one’s accuracy.

Uh oh!!! I was wondering if Gracie was in for the first big shock of her life. I’m glad it’s happening before she gets any older. One really difficult problem for a very smart kid is they get used to succeeding at everything — and succeeding easily. They end up not knowing how to cope with failure, and they end up with very fragile egos as a result. They end up lacking what teachers now call “resilience”.

It is important for kids to have that character-building experience of really screwing up a few times. Gracie has been lacking that.

She’s reached the limit of her knowledge! Now the real fun starts…the learning.

The suspense!!! Gasp

Ah yes, the ol’ overconfident rush job problem.

There is no prize in finishing the quiz or test first. I always checked, double checked and triple checked my answers on my work.