For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 07, 2021

way to think on the negative, Elizabeth

“The cafeteria is amazing!” Hmm. If you haven’t eaten lunch in the cafeteria yet, then it makes me wonder what about that cafeteria would be amazing to Dawn.

I myself am UBER happy to have left that bit of “incarceration” behind, thank you very much.

No wiser words have been spoken, Liz. Novelty wears off.

spoilers below*** …… And just think, Elizabeth… within a few months, you’ll meet the schlubby guy who is the topic of derision for people everywhere!

One of the upsets I’ll always have is that my high school got renovated shortly after I graduated.

I’m waiting for when they start checking out the boy’s.

that’s funny, cause it’s true!

And then comes the realization that you’re low guys on the totem pole – freshmen.

With my family and I living behind my high school Couldn’t wait till I was in high school no more buses and my mom let my brothers and I come home for lunch the school hated it. Oh and sometimes my mom also pick me up to go out to eat too.

I don’t think it will take that long. It’s not the High School, as a rule. It’s the upper classmen(until you are one).

Interesting phenomena they have seen in the UK that attendance at boarding schools spiked in the 2000s and 2010s. It has been attributed to what is called the “Harry Potter effect”, where kids have read those books and believe boarding can be a positive experience in their educational development.

Yes, reality sneaks in?

Amazing food fights yet to come!

The way they’re acting, you’d think they were on a cruise ship…

Sooner than that for me.

Elizabeth that is the truth 4th panel. All the class work assignments coming.

Public school. You get what you pay for.

Better hit the books, Lizzy. There are only so many good-paying, cushy jobs out there, and they go to whomever has the highest grades. Every other kid at school is your enemy.

When I went to school there were no cafeterias. ( maybe that’s a good thing)

will it take a few months?

I’ve never known what it was like to go to a new school. When I was Elizabeth’s age we moved and my school was 45 years old, though most of my classes were in a newer section which STILL didn’t have air conditioning. Cafeteria and gym were in the original building.

I recently bought a used car, from a young man in the near-by suburb,that I’d gone to school in, when we were near the school, I mentioned In hadn’t seen it for a long time, and that we had only moved to the (then )new high school building in the last half of our senior year. He laughed and said he too had graduated from that school…and he too had gone to the NEW"new" in his senior year.

Our C-17 broke at Al Asad AB in Iraq in 2008. We had to spend the night and went the chow hall for dinner. It was huge (like a Walmart) with five serving lines with a different entree/theme at each (i.e. steak, seafood, etc). I’ve never seen any thing like it.

The main thing I hated about school was the hours.