For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 18, 2012

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    onetrack0246  almost 13 years ago

    I’m w/the kid myself

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    NE1956  almost 13 years ago

    I’m with Michael in the last panel. Someone should make faces and make the guard crack a smile. I’d do it, but he can’t see me since he’s seemingly not breaking the 4th wall.

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    psychlady  almost 13 years ago

    It wouldn’t kill anyone to make learning fun once in a while!

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    astar15  almost 13 years ago

    last panel..good point

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    Prey  almost 13 years ago

    Love the 2nd panel!

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    puddleglum1066  almost 13 years ago

    Telling other people what you saw “takes all the fun out of field trips”?.I feel sorry for you.

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    gobblingup Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    The first two panels were funny, but the last two were just kid’s not understanding how things work. I am not an art aficionado, but I would think that you would want to focus on the visual beauty of the art without another sense being distracted by music.And if I’m a guard with a classload of kids running around with valuable art, I would be stern too. His job is to protect the art, not to make friends with a rowdy bunch of kids.

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    ewalnut  almost 13 years ago

    Sad that the kids expect junk music/muzak in the background and think it would cheer anyone up.

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    coffeeturtle  almost 13 years ago

    All of Michael’s observations are spot on! :-)

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    tuslog64  almost 13 years ago

    I’d be a bit grouchy looking too if I had a job that required standing at attention eight hours per day.As for field trips, we’d learn more on them at times than in school. The main reason field trips have been reduced is thanks to lawyers and our sue-happy society – the liability factor. When I was in grades 1 – 3 (one room country school) we’d often walk 1/4 mile through the timber to a creek in the afternoon. That Utopia is now gone – cats, coyotes etc not to mention fears of 2-legged predators.

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    tuslog64  almost 13 years ago

    There was a posting at one time of the statue “David” on the internet. One was before, the other after his tour of the USA – sponsored by McD and other fast food places!!

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    iced tea  almost 13 years ago

    Maybe these kids will be inspired to become artists themselves.

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    rekam Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    I remember having to write a letter to the wounded soldier who painted a beautiful picture of a collie when I was in the 5th grade and our class went on a field trip. Of course, I didn’t receive a reply and was disappointed.

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    vldazzle  almost 13 years ago

    @ Gretchen’s mom, True that these kids have not yet learned how much fun it is to discuss something that you have experienced; it takes some maturity.

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    Snoopy_Fan  almost 13 years ago

    Putting one’s thoughts on paper requires a whole bunch of skills: critical thinking, creativity, coordination, composition, organization, and personal expression, just to name a few. (It also helps them to develop conversational skills. Not to mention memory.) True, a fourth grader doesn’t have as much experience with using those skills as most tenth graders, but how do you think those tenth graders got that experience? Writing a report at school about a school experience isn’t educational? The field trip was the “fun” part; the writing assignment is the “work” part. And BOTH are educational.

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    tuslog64  almost 13 years ago

    Ft. Leonard Wood, Army basic 1962: One course was a night walk through the woods, and report on what you saw. One man put down that he had seen a tank with a flat tire! (actually, it was an armoured personnel carrier)

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    massha  almost 13 years ago

    Writing should not be a difficult assignment, and if it is, it needs to be fixed up real soon! I feel truly awful for any adult who finds it difficult to write a report about going on a field trip though – here is somebody who got let to have too much fun and no studying as a kid! It is a pretty serious deficiency I think. Making a field trip and NOT using it as a learning tool, report and all, is inexcusable.

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