Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for April 10, 2023

No doubt, she graduated at the head of her class.

What goes through her little head?

Did she make it past first grade?

Parent-teacher interviews must have been awkward.

There is a very good chance that she got a far better education than anybody in the public school system.

Reminds me of when my former daughter-in-law announced that she was thinking of home schooling. Thinking was not one of her strong points.

Never got past first grade?

Very clever.

I be happy to home school now

Mom wasn’t ready for her to fly the nest.

For some reason, she always had to stay after school.

ba dum tss

I could’ve been like the woman in the first panel. Only, in the second panel, I’d say my mother was my first grade teacher.

Ah, brought you up on weird small talk.