Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 26, 2016
Transcript:
Caulfield: It's almost October. Should we be doing the baking-soda volcano experiment by now? Mrs. Olsen: Well, you don't want to peak too early. Frazz: She actually mentioned peaking too early to a roomful of 3rd-grade attention spans? Caulfield: Oh, look, a bird.
Bilan about 8 years ago
Next question, what does baking soda volcanoes have to do with English class?
wolfowned about 8 years ago
SQUIRREL!
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 8 years ago
This being a normal comic-strip timeline…which means it’s like a mobius strip instead of a film reel…I try to suspend disbelief and accept that he’s always 8, and always in 3rd grade, with Mrs. Olsen for a teacher, whether the school year is starting or ending.
His asking that question makes him seem self-aware…. catching on that he’s stuck in time, like Bill Murray in Groundhog day…knowing what will happen next, all through the school year.Or else we should believe that the most brilliant child in Michigan is now about 24 and repeating the 3rd grade for the 15th time….but I don’t buy that one.
But other than one of those scenarios, how would he know about the volcano experiment every fall?
As for what it has to do with English….except for gym, don’t 3rd graders still have one teacher for everything?In my day we never had separate classes for different subjects till 7th grade….but I don’t know about nowadays.We’ve seen a few other teachers in the school, but I don’t know whether Caulfield is actually in their classes.
whiteheron about 8 years ago
Dern! Almost October….man, Who knows where the time goes? .
pumaman about 8 years ago
Peak or peek?
sandpiper about 8 years ago
Peak: the double meaning -
Volcano and mental growth
944tim about 8 years ago
when I was in 5th grade the science teacher set one of these off, just as the fire drill went off. We filed out of the class and when we came back it was all done and we didn’t get to see it.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 8 years ago
Is Mrs. Olsen saying that your whole life is downhill after the volcano demo? Man, that’s just sad! Kinda like the star HS quarterback for whom the homecoming game was the pinnacle of his entire life.
jessegooddoggy about 8 years ago
October, when the aspens hit their peak colors….breathtaking. I can’t get enough of them.
pschearer Premium Member about 8 years ago
One of many seminal events I missed in my childhood. To me baking-soda volcanos are just an urban legend.
NCTom Premium Member about 8 years ago
It is an exceptionally good group of students who would enable a teacher to write on the board like she is today. I always used an overhead projector and thus was able to continue to interact with my students. White boards and computers are even better today. (though NOT cheaper!)
Kind&Kinder about 8 years ago
And this is probably why she has had so much trouble with her daughter, wouldn’t you say? Makes psychological sense to me, a retired pro in that field.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 8 years ago
I can’t recall if I ever saw that volcano, maybe I did but seen to many ones on tv.