Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 09, 2023

Peppermint Patty’s school

Maybe you should take a brick for old time’s sake Sally?

You gave up? “Don’t Give Up” (Peter Gabriel)

“School’s out forever I’m bored to pieces” (Alice Cooper)

Oh Sally. Still thinking on how things affect you specifically.

I hope Peppermint Patty’s school is not as depressed.

Well, we know it definitely wasn’t the Rick Astley Elementary School.

Don’t worry Sally. The masons will come and fix your old school. They will leave no bricks un-laid. And the mortarboards will be back in force.

When have you ever really liked school, Sally?

When hope is gone, and giving in to despair seems the only option…

So Sally is going Old School. Good for her! Dilly! Dilly!

Judging from its construction, I would’ve taken the school to have been an old timer, too. Though the color of the bricks was a bit newer than the old red brick structures.

I don’t know about anyone else but this is one cute cartoon strip

That poor school. He was just too pure for this world.

I wonder how a brick that hasn’t got very good locomotion, (he doesn’t have any legs to walk or he isn’t round to roll like a rolling stone) can know about another brick’s foundation clear across town? Do they have some kind if mind reading ESP?

I am sure the the teacher there is also a french horn.

This is what happens when you keep throwing bricks at people, School.

The other day, someone asked where he was getting the bricks on “Cleats”. I said “the school in ‘Peanuts’”. I had no idea how right I was…

All of the schools know each other and talk.

This episode seems to be for those Architects who love their buildings.

Then he’ll be one brick short!

They have to walk clear across town? Shouldn’t the school district bus them?

If they ever tore down our old grammar school, a lot of little critters would lose their home. We boys used to do target practice on the spiders that came up from the drains in the urinals.

It is always interesting to see how the young process with a loss.

With a good foundation you’ll learn the 3 R’s

Walk?? Kids today can’t walk a block to school. It would hurt their dignity.

The roof of the junior high I attended in the ’50s collapsed the year after we moved out of it. It was supposed to be torn down to make way for a new one, but an earthquake started the job early.

Boy the grownups just can’t wait to shove the kids back into school,can t hey?

If you can have a snow day,why not a “collapse day”?

Oof, she’s beating a suicide victim while they’re down. I mean, I’d get it if they died, resentment is understandable, but it’s probably not a good thing to do for such victims who survive the attempt.

Last known time I went to Clallam County, Washington where I was born and stayed until first grade, the school building still stands, but remains vacant since 2005 (two years after I graduated high school).

I want to see Lucy react to this….

I did that a lot in elementary school. Not walk clear across town. Change schools. Though in my case it was called moving.

You can only hold it together for so long..