Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 18, 2009

You’d better…..

Well, you let him go.

I have to try this on my exams today.

I did that on an exam once….they were not amused.

He’ll make a good scientist. I love it!

More research is needed

At least he was honest…

Write numbers at random, tell Mum it’s “new math”.

I did that on part of an exam too when I ran into some Math word problems I couldn’t answer. I think the test was one of those ones that was graded on a curve because I remember being shocked when I got a 80 something on it. I always figured they did that so the teacher wouldn’t look bad by flunking us all, because the material was impossibly difficult. I know some of you are teachers so can you tell me if I’m right on that assumption?

Not meaning to be a wet blanket, but why would this make Calvin a good scientist?

The problem is that a true answer is not necessarily a correct or acceptable one.

Playing outside with Hobbes is much more funny than learning!

Speak for yourself. I enjoyed both immensely. Still do.

Of course, having Calvin act like that (until he creates a good clone of himself, which will happen eventually) would violate the First Law of Cartoon Physics: “Only When It’s Funny.” :))

Oh boy, won’t mom and dad be surprised?

“These are similar to the ones we had the other day “, doesn’t work either.

to late his already gone,you won’t catch him now.

I can see Calvin, working with AL GORE on the Climate Change Thingy…GLOBAL WARMING….

3+7= ？ 37

hey they always say tell the truth rite? whats the piont, they nevr even believe the truth even if u do speak it

As a teacher, I can tell you that this is what a lot of kids do on their homework. Then they ask for extra credit two days before report cards go out.

Do I see Susie as a tutor?

Dino-1: … so the teacher wouldn’t look bad by flunking us all, because the material was impossibly difficult. I know some of you are teachers so can you tell me if I’m right on that assumption?

Dino: as a teacher, I would like to share with you that: YES - there is this curve thing . ND normal distribution. However, this is what school board makes us follow, not that individual teachers care. There are places that would lower the passing mark so there would be similar percentages of grades for different subjects. However, the way we do it is to give out grades, rather than marks when we do apply the ND for grading.

Ivey0730 I like your math much better. That would make the answer to Calvin’s question 57.

—————– If I didn’t know something, I either left it blank or faked it.

I puuled that once on a chem engineering quiz..

Quest: Can you ………….

Ans: No

I got credit for it.

Calvin… A glairing example of why “No Kid Left Behind” has put such a financial burden on school districts!

if i had used calvin’s logic when i was in school, maybe i would have had better grades

Praxsis - You mean Gore-Bull Warming? That’s why the Enviro-terrorists have now changed it to “Climate Change”. Used to be “Greenhouse Gases”. Always new phrase hysteria so they can still keep the lie “hip”.

Sorry Calvin but you will receive a failing grade. “I don’t know” is not correct.

This reminds me of the story about the professor who wrote one word on the board “Why?” and left the room. Everyone was trying to figure it out but one person wrote on their paper, “Why not?” and left. They got an A.

As I try to figure out the connection between today’s strip and the pot shot comments about scientists and global warming, I am left only with Calvin’s answer, “I don’t know.”

My daughter was taught a little in middle school but not in hight school allergra bra. When she started for Associates it took a special teacher to break it down for everyone at the time told the instructor they where frustrated and no one could teach them allergrabra. I told my daughter some teachers/instructors may not know how to break it down since for long time it has been taught a certain pacific way. My daughter credit’s that instructor and recommended her to other students for that class. For adults this instructor cared.

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how i wish that worked Calvin, i could do almost nothing and still get 100% it would be awesome.

Kind of surprising that Calvin (he’s what, 8 or 9 years old?) still can’t figure that the sum of 5 + 7 is 12.

I remember my grandma finding a paper that my uncle had written in high-school many years ago.

“We were given an assignment to write about something special that had happened to us. I have 3 days to do this.

Well just got done with supper and I can’t think of anything yet. I’ll try later.

Need to get to bed and I still haven’t thought of anything to write about.”

You all get the point right? This went on for the 3 days. He had turned this paper in and actually gotten a C on it for his creativity, format and speclling!

I would never have gotten by with that.

Cliff Clavin: “Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen”

Mon said “Finish the homework”, she never said it had to be correct.

Calvin has just lowered the bar for child prodigies. Hop over everyone!

Love that look on C’s face as he’s jumping off the porch…I doubt there’s a comic strip out there that catches any better what it’s like being a kid better than C & H!

Yukoner: With an answer like “I don’t know”, I’d say the math is more “fuzzy”!

dudeabideshou: I think Calvin is only 6 years old.

Once in college I was called upon to give what the instructor called a prepared talk. I had forgotten about this assignment , so I proceded to give an improvised lecture on how to lecture on any subject when you were completely unprepared.

I passed the course, a “B” .

GENIUS answer…

5+7=12 crazy

DD FENCE EMET, not all religious leaders, and (especially) scientists are afraid or reluctant to answer, “I don’t know.” I willingly use the phrase, because I don’t know everything. A scientist I know likes to say, “Gee, I don’t know. Let’s find out…”

And so does every religious leader worthy of the name, if the situation calls for it. That’s one big reason why I work as a consultant in Bible background and exegesis.

I may not know something, but I certainly have confidence that I can find out anything…when the Lord agrees that I really need to. That trust has never been betrayed.

I’m surprised he stayed inside THAT long!

Why aren’t either of the witless lumps helping him understand his school work? It’s not like they are completely unfamiliar with him or his methods at this point. Poor little Calvin, always fending for himself with such lousy, self removed parents.

Because if they helped him, that would violate the First Law of Cartoon Physics: “Only When It’s Funny”.

@JohananR

“I don’t know/understand, but I accept” = faith?

“For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this I believe that unless I believe, I should not understand.” St. Anselm of Canterbury There is ‘blind faith’, and there is credible faith. Blind faith might have no real basis; credible faith is based on facts and reason. Calvin has blind faith that his answers will be acceptable, but they are not really answers. They are an admission that he doesn’t know the answers.

@Johanan R You mention you are a consultant in Bible background and exegesis.

This is something my husband would really like to do. Any specific areas he should look at to do this type of consulting work?

I get $5.07

In response to Dino-1:

I taught at an ivy league university for a number of years. The reason wild curves and grade inflation exist is a philosophy that giving bad grades hurts students self-esteem, independent of whether they deserve bad grades.

The problem with this, is that it may be reasonable in kindergarten or first grade or second grade, but it has to stop somewhere. This philosophy already dominates the thinking at most 4-year universities. So, students graduate with an “A” or “B” average and discover they have no skills and no job.

It is time for the parents and students demand a “C” weighted curve at all schools, so grades mean something. If all the schools change at once, it will be a level playing field. No one wants their school to go back to “C” being average when the other schools have “A-” as average.

Sorry for the rant, back to the funnies.

answer 26 better than I dont know duh

Susan, teachers have little control of how much homework to give. In fact, there are specific time guides for each grade level - check out the student handbook teachers have to send home the first week of school. Classrooms have stopped being child-centered, and there is very little room for a teacher to go with their strengths in teaching. School boards are told by state boards of education, who are told by the Federal government that so much progress must be made in test scores, and that is how things are run these days. Please don’t blame teachers.

“I can see Calvin, working with AL GORE on the Climate Change Thingy…GLOBAL WARMING….”

Yeah, leave it to the Internet for someone to try to politicize even a CARTOON to try to further their own political agenda. (Rolls Eyes)

ah too true…

dudeabideshou, Calvin is only 6 (although his vocabulary would make you think that he’s older)

To show his work, he should have drawn a picture of himself scratching his head.

In my math class, you got a point just for attempting each problem, even if you got it wrong. In most situations in life, you can actually learn more from being wrong than being right.