Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 07, 2024

An F will express other things as well.

Maybe it’s like Olympic sports where they discard the highest and lowest scores.

Fascinating that Danae seems to be relegated to the front desk .. no, maybe that’s the reason she’s relegated to the front desk …

The flaw in her argument of it being the teacher’s shame is, if the rest of the class does well on scores, well then…

I like this teacher. Let the nutcases expound, but ignore their gall.

In my day, the teacher would have taken Danae into the “cloak room” for a meeting with The Board of Education.

Be glad Kristi Noem isn’t a schoolteacher.

What tough economic times? “Now our economy is the envy of the world.” President Biden in 2024 State of Union.

Danae is getting ahead of the parents who usually blame the teacher/school for the failure of offsprings to measure up. Had a number of those one year.

Seems at the end of the 5th grading period Moms and Dads had not received report cards for Bismuth and Budgie et al. Storming into the school office, they raved and ranted about the poor system, etc. Imagine their faces when it was revealed that report cards had been sent via mail. For some reason, they were ‘shocked.’ [It had only been done that way for about 20 years.]

‘Well, what happened to them?!!?’ This being a small rural county where everyone knew everyone, canny principal suggested they check at post office. [The post master was their neighbor.]

While I can only imagine the results after they found that the cards had been delivered as intended, I can also imagine the storm that swept through the area from house to house. But that storm also cleared the air of complaints about the system and its supposed failings. Next few years were very quiet.

Danae either doesn’t understand that her grade is just a small part of the overall ‘grades’ picture, or she – well, I think we all know it’s door #2.

It is funny how Danae does not realize that if it is just her test scores that are bad, then it reflects on her. It is only if everyone fails the test does it reflect on the teacher

My kids had a grade school teacher that if the whole class did poorly on a test or quiz, she would review the material and give another test. On the chance that she didn’t teach the material as well as she should have, to me that makes perfect sense.

Danae, today is “National Teachers Day” Behave yourself.

Just three years, seven months, thirteen days and five hours until retirement…three years, seven months thirteen day and four hours and fifty five months until retirement…

Danae is playing golf while everyone else is playing basketball.

For those of us of an age who were spanked, not beaten, we deserved most of them, didn’t warp any of us or make us violent and drove home the point there are consequences for your actions. Something the time out kids or heaven forbid no cell phone kids haven’t learned.

I took some professional certification tests where they analyze the test results afterward. If there is a question where most people missed it, they concluded the question was badly designed and took it out of calculating the final score. It might be called an unintentional trick question. It would be nice if more testing took into consideration the fact they may have designed a really bad question.

Sometimes a really smart kid can be a real pain.

This is an old Calvin and Hobbes joke…

This looks like something Calvin would say.

I wonder if the teacher is a fan of Henry Rollins. He said when people offer him criticism or advice, he’d just reply “Duly noted.”

Which was his way of saying “F**K OFF!!”

Gee,and that teacher had Peppermint Patty in the class before this…..