Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 22, 2024

No you don’t.

Mrs Olsen has to learn that with Caulfield, there’s always consequences.

Caulfield has to learn that with Mrs Olsen, there’s always consequences.

Aha, the truth comes out. Caulfield is a perfectionist. If he didn’t procrastinate he’d spend far too much time on his assignments.

Caulfield and Ms. Olsen challenge each other, ultimately making both of them better for it. Jef has really made a fun dynamic with them.

Loving this arc!

Prayerful what you care for.

“Maybe if I work hard enough at it, I can get it down to a ‘B’, or even a ‘C’”

Unless a higher grade is possible, you don’t need to grade it again.

And Caulfield kibitzes all the time.

Does she sell Folgers coffee too?

Think either of them learned anything from this? More importantly, have we?

Yes. However, there are revisions. And reviewing it and general care in giving honor to the student’s work.

Mrs. Olsen should grade it. It’s only fair; she should have known it would create more work for him. His rewrite will probably deserve a better grade due to his review. This is a valuable lesson: the quality of your work increases with the effort you put into it. He obviously cares about that, but puts it off until time constraints limit it. His next lesson will be learning to recognize when the delta-effort expended will not result in a corresponding improvement of the end result. I’m still struggling with that one …

“Writers don’t finish [a project], they only abandon it.” I can’t remember who first said that, but it’s true.