Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 28, 2022

Probably cuz you don’t do the work, Calvin.

Calvin is going to pay someone to take his SATs.

If he gets into college he’ll pay someone to write all his papers.

Wrong world, eh Calvin?

Plenty of people get rewards disproportionate to the effort they’ve put in. And vice versa.

I’m sure your mom and dad couldn’t, for starters.

I’m guessing Ralph Nader.

Susie should give him the wrong answers so he flunks, but revenge would ensue

He would be doing work. He’d be copying your answers.

When Cal adds, 2+2 never makes 4.

Calvin, keep that thought. Someday you may want to run for public office.

Always take credit for the good things others have accomplished and blame your own shortcomings on someone else. It’s the American way.

Calvin is gonna grow up to host The Apprentice.

One year in junior high I let the 5 kids who sat around me copy off my papers in math. The teacher, who was nearing senility, didn’t notice, and I didn’t care. It made me somewhat accepted & kept me from getting beat up.

There are millions who would probably agree with Calvin…

Oy! Reminds me of little Louis..doesn’t want to study….

Susie has yet to discover taxes and redistribution of income.

Calvin, your problem is that you weren’t born into the right family. You should’ve been born into an ultra-rich family. Then none of that school-stuff would matter.

To some people morals are a choice, while for some others, morals are for everyone else.

I suppose we don’t always learn things because we want to, but rather because other people want us to. I mean really, who actually takes a predicate nominative into account when writing. Not I.

This is America, Calvin. A country obsessed and seething with resentment at the idea that someone, somewhere, is getting something they don’t deserve.

After which he will become a sleezy politician and descend into a life of deceit, grifting, and mendacity.

Friends. He had his girlfriend/future wife do all of his college work. He was a dangerous unqualified druggy idiot that kept getting fired or put into sales. She never got a good job because she never got the paper she deserved.

LOL… Cavin the Manipulator strikes again. But, Susie is smarter.

calvin, the future politician.

Susie’s going to be real disappointed with how the world turns out.

So many people who spent their entire school years ducking, dodging, cheating and mocking education, bragging the whole time about it. Now they spend the rest of their lives griping about how unfair it is that they aren’t qualified for the “good” jobs.

One day when I was in about 2nd grade, a friend came over after school, but my mother said I couldn’t play with friend until I finished my homework. Friend had already finished hers, so I copied from her, but I didn’t stop to think about what kind of grades she usually got, and at least half of the answers that I copied were wrong. Never did that again.

People laugh at Calvin’s logic… but have you ever tried to raise inheritance taxes?

Calvin for president.

Like getting a trophy just for showing up…

Remember: The common definition of “fair” is “biased in my favor, because I deserve it”.

I understand this one and agree with it to an extent, but it is based on a wrong assumption that infests our whole education system. Grades are not rewards. They are metrics. The problem, if Calvin cheated, is not that he would get rewarded without working. It’s that he would get inaccurate feedback. It would be like rigging your car so that it showed you going 75 MPH when you’re only going 20.

I used to “cheat” before going to the doctor. I knew she would check my blood sugar, so I laid off soda for a week ahead of the appointment. One time she threw an A1C on me (a different test that, in essence, measure average blood sugar over the previous 90 days). When the tests came back, she said, “Interesting. Your regular blood sugar came back normal, but your A1C is the equivalent of nearly 200 over the last 90 days. I wonder why there’s a difference?”

It wasn’t that I was busted. As she said, “When you artificially skew the results of the test, it doesn’t hurt me one bit. I get paid the same.”

I realize most people don’t approach it like that, but that’s not only why we have so much cheating in school. It is also why so much “education” (especially since No Child Left Untested) is completely useless.

He’s on his way to president.

Maybe politicians- – - -

How is it with how much else has changed to date some calvin and hobbes, that some strips just get BETTER with age?

Kari “Snake Eyes” Lake?

Bad behavior shouldn’t be rewarded. This is how certain relatives take advantage of certain relatives.

gonna be honest’ in that scenario I would do exactly what susie is doing

Susie has a point.

So Calvin is a liberal socialist??

I was watching the new show on Paramount – Tulsa King. Stallone’s character gave the best reason to go to college I’ve ever heard. Paraphrasing it is: Your major doesn’t matter. You go to college to prove to future employers that you can get up and show up on time and often enough to learn something. That effort is what convinces a future employer to take a chance on you. They know you are capable of learning and your responsible enough that you won’t slack off. That’s it.