Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 14, 2023

Summer is the only time Miss Wormwood doesn’t want to be in a coffin.

Considering how much she smokes, she’s gonna be in a coffin before she retires in five years.

Anyone ever meet their teachers somewhere other than school? I remember meeting my U.S Government teacher Mr. Rush at a Walmart. I asked if he had any decent students lately and he said “Not since you graduated!” I laughed, expecting an answer like that.

A natural assumption

Will Calvin get a different teacher next year? That could explain why Miss Wormwood is happy.

Miss Wormwood did that just to mess with his little mind.

Don’t they have Instacart in that town??

I once saw my math teacher in the library. Sitting on the sofa, reading. Being a kid, I figured she lived alone and went there for the company, because I could not imagine Miss Hall having any friends. She was in her 50s and childless, but constantly gave rants in class about how we kids should have been raised by our parents.

That’s just the gym teachers, Calvin.

Reminds me of when Curtis saw his teacher Mrs. Nelson at the pizza shop and was surprised that she ate pizza like other people. Somehow kids don’t think of their teachers as being human and doing the things everyone else does.

One of my least favourite teachers was a Mrs Ross. She tended to lose her temper quickly with me. One day, I saw her on her bike and she cheerfully called “Hello, David,” I waved and called back, “Hello, Mrs Ross.” It was a surprisingly friendly moment between us which occurred outside school.

When I was Calvin’s age, we had nuns in school. All wore full (old-time) habits. I’m not sure that any of we students entertained the idea of them existing outside of the classroom.

That was a big LOL funny.

My young school children didn´t believe I had a house and 2 children. They thought I just existed in the school.

Well if she smokes, she will be coffin all the time….

Kids just couldn’t seem to get that some teachers had interests and experiences that formed the basis of their teaching method.

I almost never followed the prescribed, but very limited lesson plans as written. [They were titled Standards of Learning or SOL’s [appropriate, no?] But, when I began teaching, I was ten years past college graduation with a variety of travels and work experiences and had a different perspective on what constituted a practical curriculum for kids in the 70’s to 90’s. When I was at the chalkboard, I was teacher, but they would have been very surprised if they had followed my after school and summer schedules.

But we do come out to shop.

She must have been in a good mood to want to say “hello” to Calvin!

Some friends are 1st and 2nd grade elementary school teachers and have told us the kids think they live in the classroom closet.

one of my all time fav’

Went to a rock concert in Chicago in 1974 and was partaking of a passed joint when I saw our high school librarian a couple of rows behind us!

You know, to this day I don’t remember seeing any of my teachers outside of school. It’s not that I avoided them or anything, I just didn’t see them around. …were they avoiding me?

A kid, who hates school, perspective

LOL… Calvin applies his ‘reality’ to everyone around him… Take Hobbes, for example. To Calvin, Hobbes is ‘real’…

Calvin has got to stop watching vampire movies

Since my parents were teachers, I knew that teachers were actually people. But I had a lot of friends in elementary schools who surprised teachers went to stores and lived lives like other human beings.

I figured Miss Wormwood would say something like, “It will be so stimulating seeing Calvin in my class again next year.”

This means he gets a different teacher after the summer

I thought teachers slept in the school!

Speaking of coffins, in case anyone missed it, “What We Do in the Shadows”, Season 5 started last night…

If teachers did spend the summer in coffins, Calvin would be outside carving a large wooden stake.

Or dined from them.

Reminds me of how Arthur and his friends initially thought Mr. Ratburn was a vampire that sleeps in a coffin.

I had a similar reaction first time I saw my grade school teacher at a grocery store. “Mr. Bealor – what are you doing here?!”

Calvin, only those who teach night school sleep in coffins during the summer. I used to teach 1st-year Algebra and have run into several of my former students at the local Walmart or my credit union. It’s always been a pleasant meeting.

They don’t sleep in coffins? If she smokes so much, then she ought to get something to stop her coffin! (My own little LOL)

Calvin is the type of kid every teacher is scared to have. If smoking is how she deals with it it’s how she deals with it.

That’s how I thought the NUNS slept all summer.

I thought the school caretaker put them into cupboards for the night, and took them out before school started in the morning.

I remember when I was in the 5th grade my mom and I were in a Mall and I ran into my 4th grade teacher. Super creepy for me. LOL

Most kids must think that. Contrast to a ‘Rose is Rose’ from a few weeks ago where Pasquale asked Jimbo what his teacher did in the summer. Nicer punchline.

In coffins all summer – well that explains a lot.