PreTeena by Allison Barrows for December 04, 2018

Libraries are awesome. So is hanging at the pool with your friends.

This is a National Crisis, kids preoccupied with worry about brain drain during summer vacation!

it helps to have friends.. before you can hang out with them.

On M*A*S*H, Radar asked Hawkeye how doctors can remember so much. “We wear earplugs when we sleep.”

“From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.” Julia Glass

“I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn’t time enough to read everything I wanted to read.” Charles Kuralt

“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.” Ray Bradbury

“For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.” Pete Hamill

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.” Thomas Jefferson

“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?” Lily Tomlin

This is fun!

“You know what the most dangerous thing in America is, right? (Black person) with a library card.” Brother Mouzone

“To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.” Sir William Osler

“Librarians are cool.” Me

Teena again shows that she is so much more mature than her friends.

This reminds me of “the —nth degree in a conversation”

; – )

The strips in this comic even as reruns should be better synced to the calendar year/season. As this comic is based in NH no one is going to be poolside outdoors when it is 18 degrees F or colder out.

I can relate to ‘brain drain’; I used to leak until I discovered it was the beer…

Over the longer term, the American education system, that critical source of future scientists and innovators, has been falling behind its competitors. In 2012, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development tested half a million 15-year-olds worldwide. Those in Shanghai came in first in math and science, while those in Massachusetts, “a strong-performing U.S. state,” placed 20th in science and 27th in math. By 2015, America’s standing had declined to 25th in science and 39th in math.

But why, you might ask, should anybody care about a bunch of 15-year-olds with backpacks, braces, and attitude? Because by 2030, they will be the mid-career scientists and engineers determining whose computers survive a cyber attack, whose satellites evade a missile strike, and whose economy has the next best GDP.

USA on average has a 180 day school year. The rest of the world 200 to 220 days. A European or Japanese 10th grader is on the same level as an American 12th grader, or higher. Some countries even have 1/2 day sessions on Saturdays.