Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for August 28, 2014

lolNate is kinda slow

Have any of you guys set academic goals for each year?I only have few for each school level

The carrot and stick works better to motivate people; you offer the option of a treat or a beat down.

Not just “sorta”: It AM, BABY! IT AM!!!!!

I just wanna pass and make it to the next grade.

But still, I try to get A’s.

See? And both Teddy’s parents are teachers themselves. (Math—remember his middle name is a radical sign.

Nate obviously follows the Homer Simpson philosophy, “Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.”

John from Richmond Texas: Sounds like the compulsory ignorance curriculum from Tom DeLay country.

Agreed Marty.

Mr. Peirce, I know that all you working cartoonists do your strips way in advance of their actual publication, but……this week is making me hope you’ve cooked up a “day before Labor Day” strip like the “think we should start on our summer reading lists?” Sunday strip of a few years back: A REAL SIDE-SPLITTER!! Laugh! Chuckle!! Snicker! Mirth! Merriment!! AND a well-timed HAW!!

You picked the wrong example Charlie Brown. I mean Nate.

Thank you, Marty.

My goal for school is not to get less than a B-, and I have been doing that except a couple of years ago when I got a C+ in art, the only subject that I’m told that “you can’t make mistakes”.

Thank god I don’t go to school. :P