Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 08, 2014

Oh, my! Nothing like not paying attention! ;)

Wow! Even the “teacher’s pets” aren’t going for the “treats”!… - Ten minutes of “post high school”, and they’ll be “wishing” they weren’t trying to “go for a walk” so fast….

I really don’t see Delta or Bernice sloughing off like their bottom graded classmates.They’ve probably already finished the assignments and are double-checking their spelling, syntax, and sources.

“I’m In With The Out Crowd”“Student Counsel”“Standing Before The School Bored”“Getting’ Test-y”“Status: No”“Pop! Goes The Thesis”or “Left To Their Own Devices…”

If Knute sleeps through all of his classes, and Tiffany continues to primp herself in the mirror, and everyone else continues to do what they want to do, and to heck with Boring(!) teachers, what happens is a sad sort of commentary in a way. But I think Greg is just continuing his characters’ personality traits drawn during the past 29 years which he has condensed into one panel… ;)

Seniors don’t take finals? Will Luann just listen to her iPod in all her classes? Oh right, she’s been doing that all year. Never mind.

“I’d have them write an essay on why they do what they do…” ^That would make for a good essay! – Funny thing is, they probably don’t even know, except for that little voice in their app that tells them when to do it. – But after high school, they probably will start to know. Some will hold a press conference to explain why, some of them will do it while laying on a couch, some of them- wait… suddenly I’m reminded of a Eurythmics song…..

“Evans is really hammering in the “Fogarty is a terrible teacher” message this week.” ^Or he’s pointing out the “landscape” of today’s teen…..

try to treat each other the way you wish they treated you

Last Day of Defience when is Greg gonna start with brad and tony wedding prep i’m just waiting for that to start cause luann’s arcsare getting a little boring Also what happen to TJ he hasn’t been in the strip in ages

Ahhh…the half-moon is behind some moody clouds, and the sky is mostly dark. Just right for a good night’s sleep! ’Nite all! ;)

“So have I loitered my life away, reading books,looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking,writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted onlyone thing to make me happy, but wanting that havewanted everything.” (William Hazlitt 1778 -1830) ;)

Yeah, and years from now, when they have kids or work in careers where they have to deal with young people, they’ll be the ones complaining that they’re getting no respect from them and that they’re just little punks who don’t respect anyone. That’ll be karma biting them in the butt.

No, more like these . Too bad someone yanked the Eurythmics one, though…. probably some suits “without a sense of humor”…. – And the ones that yanked the “Separate Ways…” by Journey one probably don’t, either. - Of course, some of them probably do have one, as shown here….

Lol! Literally….

I’d rather listen to the “Air Supply” version…. -Or the Celine Dion version- okay, wait… that…no….

Or the “non-stop techno/C&C Music Factory” version….

@ IamJayBluE " some of them will do it while layingon a couch"What kind of eggs will they be laying? Will there be scientists standing by to record this moment for medical history?

From Socrates:“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

I wanted to quote something from Pliny the Elder that was also about youth, which I thought was very timely, but I couldn’t find it.

“When I think back On all the crap I learned in high school It’s a wonder I can think at all…”-———————————————————————————————————————-Paul Simon

Hoo-BOY. The “Corporate World” is REALLY gonna be POUNDING on the Door to Acquire THESE “Go-Getters”.

Hope You Young Punks LIKE the Taste of Gov-Mint Cheese, for I Suspect You’ll be Eating a LOT of it.

Go right ahead, Luann. Do “what you usually do” and take the grade you earn. Who knows, you might not be graduating after all….

Cross-eyes, pig nose…Miss Inner Beauty, ladies and gentlemen. Because outer beauty there is none.

Luann seems to be under the impression that she never has to learn anything after leaving High School. Is she ever in for a shock.

Hmmmm…. Yeah, I’m not sure where Greg is going with this “Fogarty” arc… unless it’s a setup for Lu and Fogarty meeting again at Pitts CC. We’ll see. Maybe he is trying to make a statement on the state of education in this country. Sad…. There was no such thing as “senioritis” at my school. They worked our a$$es off to the very end. Most of us were taking AP exams, or doing what we could if we were “wait listed” at a school we wanted to go to. And, in true college prep style, we had a “finals week” with which to deal as well.

One of the teachers there was notorious for saving huge exams for the “day before” a holiday period would begin so that we wouldn’t slack off beforehand. We were always on our toes.

I smell a setup: Luann returning to teach at the HS in four, five years…

It seems to me that Luann’s comic character has shown a lot of growth. She’s having a conversation with her teacher, who has spent his years giving the same assignments over and over, and he’s actually listening. There’s been a lot of ‘teacher flicks,’ which show teachers/professors who find ways to inspire at least some of their students from “Blackboard Jungle” to “Dead Poets” and on to “Freedom Writers.” I’ve seen too many assignments of lazy English instructors who assign the same themes every semester. Movie scenarios may be overly idealistic, but an inspiring class curriculum does reach some of the students, who want to improve.

“We call Tiffany shallow because she wears lipstick, the tramp! But it’s cool when Delta wears it.”

we had a senior trip at the end of the year, the prom (which was last week) and graduation practice, last minute ordering of Graduation Invitations, caps and gowns, year book pictures, oh, and of course, final exams.

On the last day of high school for us midterm graduates, our civics gave us our “last taste of 7up” right after telling us that some of us weren’t far from parenthood. That was in 1972 when many of us married young. So that is what I suggest he does. It was like putting a stamp on us that said, “Childhood Completed”.

“Whats the point of any essay?”*Lu, writing your thoughts (especially thoughts about yourself) is FUN— you and Tiff should especially enjoy this. But here your teacher is offering you a wise choice— review and analyze your formative last four years, or plan your course of action (beginning this summer) that will set you on our way for the next ten years.*Put some thought into it class. This is a worthwhile project— even though your teacher isn’t going to read the essays.*Now excuse me while I go write more on my weekly newsletter I send to my (willing) colleagues.

“How is a bunch of disrespectful teens in school supposed to be funny? "*RB – I’ve got to agree with you there! (Except when I remember the last week of school.) See my note above about this being a meaningful opportunity.

*Now middle-aged, looking back, if I regret anything it’s not that I messed up sometimes but that like these students, at times I wasted an opportunity.

“I wasted my free education at Pitts High School, and now my parents have to pay for my remedial classes at Moony U.”“They are soooo proud!”

I meant the post mostly in jest.Those two are usually depicted as the go-getters of the group, I don’t really buy their being shown as slothful in this scene except that Evans needed to fill the panel and continue with his “lazy students” theme.Sometimes I can’t believe that he supposedly shows these strips to his wife and daughter for their input.

I just realized, he’s probably going to get a job at the college Luann is going to go to.

I can’t believe Miss “Shares Her Thoughts In A Diary” Luann balks at this assignment.It’s the perfect self-analysis moment.P.S. Who’s with me in writing to GoComics that they will boycott any ad that “pops up” in the left side of the site window and pushes what you’re trying to read to the right?

I work for a school district and all the comments i read the bad the good and the ugly about this comic and our school how true it is.

Yeah, I hate those, too.

Is anyone preparing for SAT tests?

Crystal has been missing for a long time.!Is there some reason??Is she ‘doing an Elwood’ and fading out of the story with no explanation? Lots is unsaid about her now.!Did she go to the prom??Is she in this class??What is she doing after graduating?

And now, the end is near— only so many/few days to Graduation! Should we hope something will happen? This reader had grand expectations of what could have occurred on Prom Night, only to see about three weeks worth of panels where very little actually happened. This is mild stuff…

A few weeks ago, I posted a scenario where the non-college bounds would work at a bar. Crystal as bartender- cocktail waitress, Knute as the janitor (“swamper”), and Ox as the bouncer, who plays some semi-pro football.

“Evans is really hammering in the “Fogarty is a terrible teacher” message this week.” ^Or he’s pointing out the “landscape” of today’s teen…..-That may be the way teens would like to be, but when I sit through the parent orientations at my daughter’s high school, the first thing each teacher says is how they confiscate cell phones if they see the kids using them.-If I were a HS teacher I would pass out two copies of a brochure to each student in the class. It would outline the course material, grading criteria, reading/math assignments, etc. It would also list standards of conduct expected of each student and the repercussions to be expected if they behaved otherwise. Also, and I would emphasize this most strongly, would be to demand absolute respect for substitutes under threat of severe consequences upon my return (having been a sub myself). Finally I would have the student AND A PARENT sign each copy. One would be theirs to keep; the other I would keep and refer to if necessary. It’s called a binding contract.

I substitute teach. And this is EXACTLY what the students want to do instead of the assignment the regular teacher has left for them. But they have learned with me, it’s either the assignment, or detention later. I have become LEGENDARY in my school system! ;-)

OR Mouse – FYI, today I bought 1) bananas, which are ripening quickly in a brown paper bag in my window, and 2) a new box of raisins. If the bananas ripen in time, on Monday I’ll critque your recipe (my version of it, at least.)*Personal question: Does OR stand for the great state of Oregon or for Operating Room. If the latter, am I required to advise JCAHO to check for rodents?

Quoting @Brdshtt:

I remember this getting a lot of airplay in the late 90’s. It was read by Baz Luhrmann and was directed to the graduating students of that year.

The tune and the tile, are based on this song, featured in his move, “William Shakespear’s Romeo & Juliet..” It’s the song that was played as the Friar is marrying Romeo (Leo DiCaprio) and Juliet (Claire Danes). The boy who sings it in this video (Quindon Tarver) also sang it in the film (in which he has a cameo role). He also covered Prince’s “When Doves Cry” in the film.

“That may be the way teens would like to be, but when I sit through the parent orientations at my daughter’s high school, the first thing each teacher says is how they confiscate cell phones if they see the kids using them.” ^You can unplug the kids from the devices, but the kids are still “plugged in” to them… – But I was more so specifically referring to how the kids of today are “automatically” against whatever comes their way from the teachers. Much like some kids will “automatically” hate whatever you put in front of them to eat, if in their minds, they have convinced themselves that they won’t like it……

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Only ORMouseworks knows for sure, but it’s possible that OR is short for Orlando, the home of Walt Disney World.

I’d think Orlando as well, given the “mouseworks” part of it. :-)

Just like I rememebr my last week of high school, total joke!

Re: “pop-up” ads…I was having a heck of a time dealing with those until I found a small program that deleted them from GoComics (and, no, I don’t remember which mini-program…my hub did it for me…I just take advantage of his input!). Anyway, I don’t get Any pop-ups at all now… ;)

“Firefox with Adblock Plus” That must be the “program” my hub activated as I, too, have Firefox… ;)

(Very Good for your son, Brdshtt…a chip off the old block, I presume! :) I took the PSAT, and I ended up in the “basement.” No-one thought I was college material. It might have taken me quite a few years to finish up my college requirements for graduation, but I did it and did it with a 3.9 average… Moral of the story: some students are just late-bloomers… ;)

Gosh, that strip looks like a template for the one we have today! ;)

I wouldn’t mind having the OR = Orlando! But, it doesn’t as I’ve never been to Disney World. (I’ve been to Disneyland, though!). I Have been to Oregon, however… ;)

BBL… ;)

Also sometimes “re-worded” as “Youth is wasted on the young”…..

Sounds like Mr. Fogarty has been a really bad teacher. Teacheritis from day one? Shoulda followed his dreams.

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