I’ve often wondered while reading this strip just how old these two are supposed to be. If they still have 4th and 5th grades ahead of them, I’m guessing 9 now?
That’s just the opposite of what my sons teacher told me back when he was in school. She said not to worry about his atrocious penmanship, that no one writes longhand in the digital age. All that was necessary was that he could write some semblance of his own name. Sad but true.
I wish I knew what the actual answer in the joke book was.