Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 22, 2023

Hey, guys that hit 30% get hundred million dollar contracts.

Wow! A “C”? Calvin actually tried?

There’s a future for him in politics. Or used car sales.

Do they judge anyone’s performance in school these days?

If government was competent, Miss Wormwood would earn more money.

If I had talked to a teacher like that as a child, I would have received some quick-acting correction at home. I’m surprised no one has commented on this.

At least Miss Wormwood has something that can repel Calvin into submission.

If I were Mrs. Wormwood, I think I would lace my Maalox with vodka. Or maybe infuse it with cannabis. I wonder if that could be done?

Calvin doesn’t have to worry over being held back in her class

Outcome based education….

Calvin kinda has a point there. Sure it is Maalox.

Hey Calvin, it may not just be Maalox in that bottle.

Used to be 75% was a D. When educations systems from secondary school through college broadened the scale to 10 points/letter, 70-79% became a C. Gradeflation continued, and the dumbing down of school curricula picked up more momentum.

Very soon colleges no longer expected students to complete degree requirements in 4-years and actually benefited by the extensions of 1 or more years to a Bachelor’s degree. Relaxed ‘standards’ were justified as allowing students more time to experience college life at their own pace. Some enrolled in only one or two courses for up to 3 additional years.

We’re gonna be paying for that for decades.

Calvin maybe will be someday among those politicians claiming excellence.

The maalox is bad enough, headache pills may also be in the mix……

Maa lox hasn’t been made in years, Calvin, so that’s something else she’s drinking from the old Maa lox bottle and it ain’t a milk shake.

Calvin was before his time

Just because a bottle says “Maalox” doesn’t necessarily mean Maalox is in the bottle. A Maalox bottle doesn’t raise eyebrows like a whiskey flask does.

Evidently, the Maalox company was willing to pay more for a ‘product placement mention’ than the Pepto Bismol company was. Very shrewd, that Bill Watterson.

I’m surprised she doesn’t drink whiskey!!!

For the test paper or your ability to drive your teacher crazy, Calvin?

I’d be happy if the weatherman hit 75%.

O P M (other peoples money) is easily spent !

I’m surprised that he actually got 3/4 of the answers right.

Surprised she doesn’t have a maalox pump.

Maybe Calvin is an Asbergers kid?

He’s got a point on the numbers.

…and sooo, Mrs. Wormwood drinks her coping med!

Wait until you are in a class with a bunch of pre-meds and the teacher grades on the curve.

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Calvin has a real future with the RNC.

oh, no… Calvin is becoming an “Equity Warrior”…

I remember my freshman physics class in college, 75% was an A++. The class average was usually in the 35% to 40% range. Thank the Big Bang for professors who grade on a curve!!

Do you know what they call the person who graduates last in their medical class?

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“Doctor.”

It only says Maalox on the bottle. It’s not indigestion she has, but a particular stressor.

Father was a machinist and it always aggravated him that a carpenter could be over 1/16th of an inch off and they cover it with molding, if he was 1/100th of an inch off it became garbage..

These days, if government and industry were 5% competent, we’d be ecstatic.

Can you blame her?

Here comes your participation trophy Calvin.

Calvin would do better if the teacher graded on a curve

If government and industry were only 75% competent, we wouldn’t expect competency from anyone at all.

Haha, I’ll bet the Maalox has some 150 proof stuff mixed in.

I had one college prof who tried taking points off for wrong answers. The average quiz score wound up being a negative number.

At a military academy I got 10% on a calculus final and that was an “A”. Don’t buy the “free education” promise. I literally had to repeat all the courses of my freshman year when I transferred to the University of California, even though my transcript showed I had been given two semesters of accelerated courses in one semester at the academy. I was also on the military academy’s Dean’s List. I was basically tricked out of a year’s education.

Poor Mrs. Wormwood, Calvin doesn’t ever age – so she is stuck with the kid.

Sorry, Calvin. Driving something from average to the highest performance might bring inflation to a nation’s economy.

But Calvin was proud of getting a C before, almost 4 1/2 years ago… https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/12/13

In baseball, they take percents out three decimal places. So, 30% performance (.300) is excellent. This is failure in any other profession. Perhaps we should all play baseball.

A: 85-100B: 75-84C: 60-74D: 50-59

I prefer my Maalox freshly squeezed.

Iceland – 75% = B

Ireland – 75% = B

England – 75% used to be a B, but they use a completely different grading scale now (not letter grades)

Canada – 75% = B

Australia – 75% = “Band 4” or “Distinction” (equivalent of a B)

With Calvin in her class, I’m surprised she’s not on Valium.

dont we all calvin, dont we all

In France, 75% is a good 15/20, and you can grab 1 or 2 points if the test is correctly written. These were the good days, school…

More bad news, Calvin: you get a C in English for that misplaced modifier in your rant.

(A BTW question: is English grammar being taught in US schools these days?)

I’ve been watching a lot of slice of life high school anime, so there is one thing I want to know about tests in Japan. Is a passing grade really 50 over there? When I was in high school you needed to get at least 65 to pass

Maalox? My go-to is Alka Seltzer.

what the heck is Maalox?

If a baseball player where to get a hit 75% of the time he would either be great or it’s the first week of the season. If a QB where to complete 75% of his passes he would be considered better than Tom Brady.

I do wonder if anyone operates at that level. And yet the world spins on.

In the 1970’s in NYC:

65 – D passing 70–79 C range80–80 B range90–100 A range