Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 06, 2012
October 05, 2012
October 07, 2012
Transcript:
POOL LIBRARY AUDITORIUM Caulfield: When did Saturday go from being a day off to a day of catching up on homework? Frazz: Probably when you wasted friday study hall playing bottle-top hockey. Caulfield: When did griping start sounding like a request for unflattering truths? Frazz: Probably when you ended it with a question mark.
Elementary school has study halls? When did that start? My recollection of elementary was that the whole day was divided up into classes—English, math, science, reading (why this was separate from English I don’t know, but it was), music, art, etc., and each class included some time to work on the assignments. Anything unfinished in class became homework. I don’t recall stand-alone study halls till at least seventh grade. Have things changed?