Peanuts by Charles Schulz for February 06, 2023

Quit while you are behind Patty !

I’m ready for a change in script.

One hundred and three times.

the principal obviously went to the same teaching college as Mrs Krabappel!(we miss you, Marcia!)

When they are done, they can jump on their skateboards and go home.

I don’t know… Sometimes I think Snoop Dogg lyrics in my head. It’s not so bad.

A rap on the head it is, then!

Many educators feel that way? I suppose having to write something out 100 times is worse than having to put on a long cone shaped dunce cap on your head and standing face forward in a corner of the room in front of the class for the entire afternoon!

In my younger days a good rap or two on butt would correct the problem post haste.

please, Patty, you have been complaining since Charlie Brown showed up at your school. Twit

This led to the invention of taping five pencils together for this task.

That’s it for me. What a terrible teacher. I’m through with Peanuts for now.

If she knows that about educators, you would think she would apply herself and know things about other subjects as well!

Oh please. It’s been scientifically proven that writing a message multiple times sends electricity from the wrist to the brain to follow the instructions of that message. I know this because I saw it on facebook or twitter or reddit or tiktok or youtube or—

And, once again, the innocent gets tarred with the guilty’s brush.

My fifth grade teacher made us write out the multiplication tables from 1 to 20 as punishment. 1×1=1; 1×2=2; 1×3=3; …..20×1=20; 20×2=40; 20×3=60; my hand hurts with the memory.

Wow! I’m surprised Peppermint Patty isn’t throwing Charlie Brown under the bus!

Peppermint Patty is the one who needs to reprimanded

I remember one chronic offender from seventh grade. (“Toneh—git you out a sheet of paper and raht for me a hunderd times, ‘I must not talk during study howl.’”) I heard this so many times, it became an earworm. Once he even complained about all the paper he was wasting.

Don’t make things worse, Patty.

A wrap on the knuckles or any other body part that seem to be available, was the go to move by the Franciscan nuns where I attended 4 th grade. I was once caught, throwing a snowball at icicles hanging from branches that were in the off-limits woods that bordered our church school. For this heinous offense, it off to see the priest. He decided my punishment was to write, “I will not throw snowballs into the woods“ 500 times, due in 5 days. I dutifully spent the entire week after school, after dinner writing out my punishment. I ran out of paper around sentence number 450. My dad went to the store, and purchased another pack of paper. Rather than counting every sentence, knowing that each of my pages had 25 lines on each side, I counted pages. Unbeknownst to me, the new pack of paper only had 24 lines on each side and when the priest discovered “treachery” he tore all my pages up in front of us and told me to start over. My dad attempted to explain the innocence of the error, but the priest was having none of it. That was the last time we ever set foot in that church, or any other for that matter.

When I was in grade school, you got paddled for misbehaving. I made the mistake of complaining to my dad about getting paddled for smart mouthing the teacher. He asked, “Which cheek did they paddle you on?” I showed him. He said, “Well bend over, I’ll use the other one, you don’t smart mouth the teacher.”

Writing has always been a slow, difficult process for me. I hated getting these punishments. Oddly, I like to draw and do calligraphy, but I really hate writing. PCs and keyboards have been a godsend.

To make that punishment go faster, I could hold 2 pencils in my hand and write 2 lines at once.

In 6th grade, Mr. Donaldson had a rubber hose. He only hit the boys. The girls had to write. I think us guys got the better deal. Actually, he was fair, and all of us guys thought he was great.

.What Patty doesn’t seem to realize is that teachers hear practically everything. So, she knows about the attempt to cheat and the incessant complaints. The great outburst by Charlie was, well, almost understandable.

A good smack on the back of the head never hurt anyone…

In reality, to question anyone in authority added to the punishment. This is not a good example for kids.

Oy!

In my day, it was a whap or two on the butt.

Or a sore rump.

Well,it’s still better than writing “I am very sorry for what I did to Frosty” a hundred zillion times.

Depends on how hard the rap is.

Paging Bart Simpson . . .

Could be worse, Peppermint Patty. You could have to learn to write with your non-writing hand because a nun had smashed your writing hand with a steel ruler. “Well Patricia is falling behind in her penmanship, Mr. Reichardt.”

I am aware that writing lines is out of fashion as a discipline technique, but I can’t imagine it being seen as “a very wrong way to punish students.” Pointless, perhaps, but I can’t see how it would be “wrong.”

Too bad Bart Simpson isn’t with them.

This is 9 years before Breakfast Club… imagine CB, PP, Marcie, Linus, and Sally getting into trouble on the same day and being sent to write a long essay on something… PP is obviously an Athlete, Marcie is a Brain, Sally is a Princess, Linus with his blanket is a Basket Case, so I guess CB gets to be a Criminal… tough luck, CB.

I didn’t know rap was there then…

Typical to punish the bullied along with the bully