For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 01, 2017

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    howtheduck  over 7 years ago

    For this one, the joke depends on the idea that Mike and Lawrence find their fellow students to be threatening to teachers. We have the kid with the hair sticking up in a sort of Sid Vicious/Johnny Rotten kind of style, and then there is the other kid with sunglasses, a peace sign shirt, with blotches on his face while smoking a cigarette. But more frightening than either of those two guys are the two blonde girls behind Mike and Lawrence wearing Nancy Reagan hair and big earrings. In the era of giant 1980s hair, any junior high girl with such a hair cut would be a serious threat to the teachers. She might take over the class and with her haircut, no one would be able to tell if she was the teacher or not.

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    capricorn9th  over 7 years ago

    That’s junior high? The kids around Mike and Lawrence look like high school kids. Middle school boys are still short and youngish. Male students move out of junior high when they are around 14 years old. Junior high is usually 7th-8th grade so the older kids are 8th graders, 14 years olds, so I am critiquing the appearances of the kids around Mike and Lawrence – they look like froshies in high school rather than new 7th graders in middle school. Boys tend to shoot up and beef up towards the late part of frosh year or sophomore year… Makes me wonder if Lynn’s Michael was smallish, perhaps a late bloomer so she drew Mike and Lawrence smaller than average and made other kids in middle school much bigger.

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    Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member over 7 years ago

    My son’s elementary school has more than one teacher. He has a homeroom teacher who teaches reading/writing and social studies. Then another teacher teaches math, science, and Spanish. Then he has the special subject teachers: PE, Art, and Music (all taught by different people). I like it because it’s getting him used to the idea of a different teacher for each subject like in Jr High and High school.

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    Linguist  over 7 years ago

    I went to parochial school which went grades 1 – 8 ( no kindergarten or pre-school ) but the public schools went K – 6 and Junior High 7 – 8 and High School 9 – 12 ( They later changed to 7-9 for JHS and 10 – 12 for HS )

    My kid brother went to a newly built Catholic H.S. all 4 years ( 9 – 12 ), whereas I commuted for two years to a Junior High ( 7 – 10 ) in another city before finishing my last two years at Prep School, in another state.

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    tuslog1964  over 7 years ago

    Teachers have to be smarter than the students, thus specializing in certain subjects.Grades 1 thru 3 I walked 1/4 mile to a one-room school (7 students the year it closed) and 4 thru 8 walked 1/2 mile to catch school bus to consolidated school 5 miles away. It later consolidated with another school which is now gone. Progress.

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    ellisaana Premium Member over 7 years ago

    Some places have junior high(or middle school) and high school in the same building. When I was in school, in the 60’s, my older sister did grades 1-7 in elementary school and 8-12 in high school. The year my brother was in 8th grade, our county added middle schools, so he went there for one year before high school. Being two years younger, I went to both 7th and 8th grade in middle school. (In Arlington Co, the next county over where my husband went to school, they had junior high (6,7 & 8th grades) and senior high (9 -12)

    As I remember, the kids in my 7th and 8th grade classes were roughly the same size – Except for the occasional kids who had shot up in height early, the girls were often taller than the boys. Things changed once everyone got to high school.

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    JackGFuller Premium Member over 7 years ago

    How quaint! Taking History, English, Math … “Readin’, Writin’, and ’Rithmetic”!

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    whenlifewassimpler  over 7 years ago

    I went in the 60s and 70s too and the HS I went to had 8, 9, 10, 11th and 12th grade combined. Only went to Jr. High for 1 year while they finished the addition in the HS for junior high school.

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