B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for May 11, 2023

Does that make them good parents??? wonder

Hey young ant. If you don’t go to school, they can’t teach you the ant sirs ( antswers??) to life’s questions.

What do you call an ant that never learned to listen?

Ignor(e)ant

Why was the baby ant confused?

Because all his uncles were ants.

School is a LOT better than the real world! Lots of people/friends your age and everything is youth-centric. A job? I’d take school any day. Of course, now I’m retired and the living really begins!

“School is bad, but life sucks worse” – is that the philosophy being imparted here?

Like it or not, life it out there, and you can go more or less prepared. Happily, we were able to convince our kids that being better prepared would smooth their way. So far, it has.

Like real life’s questions, stay away from anteaters, people with big feet and kids with magnifying glasses.

Not so fast, Mommy Ant, Dad Ant’s got a point. Kids need to go to school to prepare them for the perils (gun violence) of the workplace, malls, and churches.

Best advise I ever got was, Don’t Grow Up.

Now it’s time for the ant eater to show up and EAT the kid. Yip yip yip yip yip

Dad has to teach those lessons. I mean really, how much “real world” can you actually learn in schools that won’t let you wear “offensive” T shirts. Real life is pretty offensive. (Just an observation)

Jake inadvertently learns from his kid,

D-ant D-ant D-ant….

Actually, school and ‘life after school’ are much alike. Good days and bad days. Successes and failures. Some really great laughs and some very sad times.

The trick is putting the bad behind you and trying to carry the good into the next day. Doesn’t always work but, when it does, life is just fine.

We would be a lot better off if school really prepared us for the real world. Preparing my grandson for his GED tests, and seeing how different that is from the English teaching in schools, has really opened my eyes.

The Real Deal is about expressing our thoughts, and evaluating the thoughts of others. I don’t recall any lesson in reading the tone of our listeners or readers. I know I write in a rather formal style even among friends such as we are here, but that is what friends are for: to let it slide. (I didn’t learn that phrase in school.)

Most of all, we were not taught to write or speak with a range of purposes. There is immense difference between “our customer base is aging, and it shrinks as it ages” and “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” We have it in ourselves to be what we are destined to be, but we need communication to be successful at it in any case. That is what we should all be taught.

Kids hate school ‘cuz it requires thinking, and there’s nothing more laborious than thinking.

In school you learn to give the teachers what they want, in the real world you learn to give the bosses what they want

He’s not wrong.

It prepares you for adulthood, when you still have to things you hate.

“Son, life ain’t fair. School will teach you that quickly and thoroughly.”

The real world may be terrible, but walking into it without preparation is going to make it much, much worse.