Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 04, 2012

Mrs. Wormwood is Calvin proof.

If Da Vinci were a child in today’s schools, they’t dose him with Ritalin until he settled down and became “normal”.

Wow Miss Wormwood is one tough adversary.Instructor class: kevlar.

I dont know if shes to big,but I think we may find out how mean she is.No she must like the little guy like I do.

I think Ms Wormwood should get together with Curtis’ teacher, Ms. Nelson, and compare notes to see who has it worse.

You mean “missile” proof.

Nailed! Does this take me back, or what? The blue-lined page as the interface between reality and imagination. The true value of early schooling.

Art lessons unfortunately always have first to go!

Duke, Alida, ek hoop julle kan hierdie saam geniet ! Liefdegroete, van Basie, Wilna en kinders.

Wilma , Geniet julle hierdie ook soos ons !

Cara , ons is trots op jou – mooi gedoen met atletiek ! Geniet nou saam met jou broer, jou mammie en pappie hierdie outjie se kaskenades .

I love the name Miss Wormwood! It reminds me of my junior high Home Ec teacher, Mrs. Witherspoon. (No kidding) And yes, she was tall and thin, gray and wrinkled. And also a very nice lady and great teacher. : )

I had one whipped off my desk and hung up on the cork strip right above the blackboard. It was a huge camel with Mrs Baumann’s face. Oops.

Sigh, in today’s school, Calvin might be arrested, or at least sent in for psychiatric counseling and deemed a menace to society. Still, I love the concept and Calvin’s imagination.

Exactly what I was thinking. “Zero tolerance” would get him expelled and sent to an alternative school.

Mrs. Wormwood’s hide must be made of solid neutronium. There’s no known way of blasting through it.

The idea of Calvin in a real tank would scare me though.

Today this would be taken as evidence of another Columbine or Va Tech and Calvin would be sent to juvenile prison, not detention.

Tanks a lot!

@Johnny Diego: public schools in NY still have an art requirement, but “woodshop” has been modernized. In our school, it’s engineering or computer-assisted design, etc.

Ms. Wormwood is fully equipped with offroad wheels.

ooh snap my best drawings were always in my math notebook .And I would always get 10 points off for ‘distractions’

I was in 3rd grade in 1964- the height of Beatlemania. I was drawing a picture of the Beatles, on stage, with their instruments. Like Calvin, I was quite pleased at how well it was coming out. Suddenly the teacher descended, whipped it away, and that was the last I saw of it. I saw her many years later and mentioned it. She didn’t remember that specific incident, but she remembered me well enough to believe me. She kind if apologized (though she would most likely do it again…) To this day I wonder if it was really any good, or just looked good through my 8 year old eyes. I never had a chance to sit back and study it, it was gone so fast.

I always thought math was the first to be thrown out the window.

I wonder if in reality Miss Wormwood is in only in her early 30s, not near retirement age. Maybe it’s just the challenge of dealing with Calvin that she appears to be older.

Excellent strip!

Love Miss Wormwood’s sarky comment in the Last Panel too.

xxx

Love Calvin’s imagination.Where I live in Southern California, art is still pretty big in the schools. We have art shows displaying great elementary, high school and community college art in all mediums. My grandkids are arty so I hope it doesn’t go away.

Yep, that’s what my notebooks looked like through college. They never took them because I always got A’s. At the end of the year, I threw out the notes but saved the drawings.

Had a teacher who graded my assignment and then graded the artwork. Apparently she liked them both.

They say that people who doodle have higher IQs than people who don’t. Power to the doodlers!

@ BW: Thank you for confirming, I was always in trouble with doodling in the class.

this is so cute! I had horrible penmanship, but doodled good and was good in art. Other kids would ask me to draw stuff for them and one offered criticism of my handwriting.

When I was in 3rd grade I got in trouble for drawing a dinosaur on the front page of my notebook. Never did that again.

At community college I would doodle cats during Conversational Spanish. The teacher was upset until I gave a class presentation with cartoon cats and Spanish word balloons. It was just “my process”.

War of the Worlds Major General Mann: “Guns, tanks, bombs – they’re like toys against Miss Wormwood!”

You can tell it’s old. Today this would make the news and Calvin would be sent to a psychiatrist to dope him up on meds. Can’t take chances on children who doodle.

If youy doodled something like that these days you’ll end up in a special class.

“I was reminded of that old limrick about the ‘Purple Cow’ myself.”

Not quite a limerick – just four lines:

“I never saw a purple cow.I never hope to see one.But I can tell you anyhowI’d rather see than be one.”

Gillette Burgess wrote it, as well as an exasperated follow up:

“Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue"

“Ah, yes, I wrote the ‘Purple Cow’—I’m sorry, now, I wrote it;But I can tell you anyhowI’ll kill you if you quote it!”

…miss wormwood has probably been teaching since calvin’s grandparents were in school…as a result, she has seen this type of behaviour plenty, rolls off her like water off a duck’s back- she probably even recognises and appreciates calvin’s genius, but it’s still her job to teach him…probably her calling, actually…

wow i need that

What?? No tiger in his tank?

Calvin, did you ever watch “Mr. Holland’s Opus” ????

The drawing looks just like Miss Wormwood.

Sometimes I draw pictures of Slenderman.

Too bad the fun is ruined…. If this was in a real class room..Calvin would be in jail..

My third grade “teacher” was Mrs. Gaunt. Seriously. She’s the reason I’m still math-phobic.

Danae, Lio, and Calvin could bring her down — splat!

At first glance I thought it was one of those winding footpath cartoons that Bil Keane did in The Family Circus.

one of my favorite Calvin’s ever

Calvin might be 6 all his life.

die ms.wormwood!

die

The world moved on. More and more New Towns occurred. Bill Watterson retired Calvin & Hobbes.Coincidence? Sad.

Grammar school graphic novel. Integrating the binder holes = extra credit! Selective use of color, while indicating personal style, we’ll schedule another session with the school counselor.