Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia for September 16, 2024

Looks like this is going to be fun. Miles will be trying to get a diagnosis next.

This could be fun! Don’t they try to mainstream most kids now? Special needs kids can be wonderfully special in several ways.

Run! Run now! Don’t stop until you get to the guy selling off-brand video games!

Now that’s the way to greet a newbie!

Good stuff!

Cue THE ELECTRIC COMPANY theme song

Oh no. He’s one of those teachers.

Special Education class wasn’t like that in my day. Yes. I had Special Ed.

The girl with the glasses would have been just my type when I was that age.

The second I saw the final panel, my fight or flight response started kicking in.

Flower Power! A little overwhelming for Kevin, I bet.

The teacher looks a little hippie-like.

Uh oh.

Excellent poster: You Are Special.

Aren’t all kids special? I prefer individualized education as a term. The term “special” is sometimes misunderstood as not being required to follow rules that apply to everyone on general, the expectation that everyone you come in contact with must adjust to you and that you are not required to respect the standards and expectations that everyone else is held to.

That girl done already got her love-eye on Kev!

I don’t know what I was expecting. But it wasn’t this. Nothing quite so…groovy…

Great welcome!

One of us! One of us! One of us!

This looks like Kevin’s personalized nightmare, a one-way ticket to being slammed in lockers for the rest of his life.

Ah, the 80s!

Wait until he finds out the flowers aren’t optional.

One of us… One of us… One of us… One of us…

This could go so many different directions…

Uh-Oh, I don’t think Kevin is gonna be down with this.

As a child, I would have been very worried about this way overly cheerful welcome.

You mean, “Welcome to the 1970s!”

Like, that teacher is, like, groovy, man!

Whoa, man, trippy. Like, I can see the answer to everything in the universe in this lava lamp.

Is the teacher wearing bell bottom jeans? Because he looks like he would be.

Special education includes time travel, too!