FoxTrot by Bill Amend for August 28, 2022

you’re a wonder, Peter

Maybe it’s time to get your nose juuuuust a little bit down and ask Jason to do the problems?

Least it’s better than the last time she got one of Peter’s books. The potato chip grease made the whole thing translucent.

A few years back, a kid in a town near here was issued a textbook. On the flyleaf, it read, “For a good time call ________,” with his mother’s name and his grandmother’s phone number. It was in the paper.

Thin don’t use dis book

“Property of the Half-Blood Prince”

B- is never easy.

Today’s classic FoxTrot Sunday strip:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2001/08/26

Kids these days likely use the calculator function on their $1000 cell phones …

Our younger daughter always looks to see if she gets the same books as her older sister. While she did once, it was really funny when she found out she had a book that a dear friend of ours had! We met him when he was a teenager; his mom was a single mother & my husband mentored him.

What are the odds? :D

I discovered the secret to geometry, and passed it along to my sons when they were there: don’t try to understand it, just learn the rules and how to apply them.

Sigh… Yet another sign their school may be tight-fisted…

Having all the homework answers would guarantee her an A on the homework. But since she’d probably not really learn much, she’d tank on the actual tests. Not the greatest logic.

With all the news about schoolbooks these days, I was surprised that a school would reuse the same books, like they did back in my day. But then, this is math. But then there was all the hubbub about common core.

I’ve always wondered…if Paige is a freshman, why is she in geometry class? Isn’t that normally for sophomores? The only freshmen that start in geometry are on a geometry / algebra 2 / trig / AP calculus track.

I remember back in my own school days, a lot of our textbooks had stuff written even though you were told not to and could be fined when you turned them in at the end of the year. Not all the notes were bad, but Peter shows why we shouldn’t have been doing that. I hope we have moved to better resources to teach math, but I’m not holding my breath.

I remember in chemistry class, some guys would open the book and put 2 different liquid chemicals on the adjacent pages. When they closed the book, the chemicals reacted and the pages turned orange. I forget what them chemicals were, but the effect wasn’t permanent.

My first thought was that it was Jason trolling her.

So I wonder why there is an “A” on his hat, then!

I remember as 40 something going back to school, two kids in Middle school other in High school, thought time to learn and catch up, in the business English they had a used book, there was already text book written on, just had to pay attention not think yes easy A.

An easy B- isn’t such a bad thing if math isn’t your strong suit.

Of course, your homework grade shouldn’t be that big a part of the equation. The value of homework is practice so you’ll be better able to pass the major assessments.

“Says it belonged to the Half Wit Prince”.

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I would have settled for a B-! It would have been enough for my parents to let me take driver’s ed in high school. I had to keep a C average in all subjects for two years straight. Blew it in two subjects freshman year and had to go to summer school and even blew it again in one of them and I still didn’t get a C in the one I past. Sophomore year, I managed it, but junior year, I didn’t score high enough again, though I did pass. Didn’t learn how to drive until I was almost 20.