Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for August 18, 2022

you’re quite the organized girl, Gracie Bermudez

I’m so glad when i went to school. We didn’t need backpacks.

My first thought was that this is dumb. But, then I realized, when you have to pull all of your stuff out of your Monday backpack and out it in your Tuesday backpack, you’ll naturally skip the things you don’t need on Tuesday. And, in that way, you won’t end the school year hauling around multiple pounds of useless crap solely becauze you’re too lazy to clean out your backpack on a regular basis. Clearly, Gracie is smarter than I was at her age.

You did your homework in study hall

I didn’t need a backpack, I had a trombone case…

You’d need a loan for that many, these babies ain’t cheap

The Tuesday backpack has the Vietnamese flag on it.

Some school districts in Texas are now requiring that backpacks or book bags be transparent. Presumably, that’s so teachers and principals can see if kids are carrying weapons. I don’t know how that’s supposed to solve the problem of psychos carrying sacks of guns into the school and blasting away, but I guess it might stop the kids who aren’t smart enough to hide a weapon in a lunch box or under a coat.

Growing up, we had school bags, which were more like briefcases, never had a backpack until college.

Try that with toothbrushes.

I guess that the blue suitcase in the back is for Friday; she needs something with wheels to bring home all of the books!