Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 16, 2023

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    BE THIS GUY  over 1 year ago

    Why even bother going to class?

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    Flashaaway  over 1 year ago

    Trump Uni before it existed?

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    SHIVA  over 1 year ago

    Our boy finally found a totally painless way to waste 4 years!!!

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    cmxx  over 1 year ago

    Snowflake school.

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    monkeysky  over 1 year ago

    I knew a kid in college who considered changing his major in his senior year so that he wouldnā€™t have enough credits, and heā€™d get to/have to stay another year. Because his grades were all good, heā€™d still keep his scholarship. My friend ended up deciding to face the outside world after all, but Zipper might need to consider that strategy.

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    eced52  over 1 year ago

    Of course, the cute girl has nothing to do with anything.

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    robertthomasson Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Alas, the reality from this time is not so different. My mother went back to college in her 50s to get the mathsā€¦ sorryā€¦ math degree she wanted to do at 18, but was deflected by her school Headteacher (Principle) who said ā€˜girls canā€™t do mathsā€™ and pushed her into geography instead. She then taught maths and statistics at what was then a polytechnic (UK technical graduate level institution) now converted to a university. Just before she retired they were setting the pass mark for exams at the mark of the lowest scoring student. No one failed.

    Why do you Yanks abbreviate Mathematics to ā€˜mathā€™ but do not call statistics ā€˜statā€™?

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    snsurone76  over 1 year ago

    How can Cricket walk bare-headed in falling snow? At least Zipper has the sense to wear a hat!

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    ajfraser  over 1 year ago

    As in Alice in Wonderland; ā€œAll shall have prizes !ā€

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    cmerb  over 1 year ago

    Question ? What feels better a ( B + or A ā€“ ) ?

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    For a Just and Peaceful World  over 1 year ago

    Back in my day, there was a ā€œWalden Collegeā€.

    Google: Parsons College was a private liberal arts college located in Fairfield, Iowa.

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    Wizard of Ahz-no relation  over 1 year ago

    Back in the 80ā€™s I was a teaching aid for a class in russian history. I was proctoring the final exam. It was a three hour exam.

    After 30 minutes some cute little brunette came up with the exam book, dropped it off, wished me a merry xmas and bounced out.

    I just had to look, to see what sheā€™d done.

    it was a three page letter to the professor saying she enjoyed his class but didnā€™t feel she was ready for the exam but hoped he wouldnā€™t feel bad about it.

    She was surprised she got an F and complained to the school. He went on to chair the history department .

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    mindjob  over 1 year ago

    Getting your diploma from a Crackerjack box is still possible, only it has moved online

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    198.23.5.11  over 1 year ago

    Release Trumpā€™s report cards.I want to see if he failed ā€œCivicsā€.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    You canā€™t fly with the eagles if you run with the turkeys. However, if the eagles donā€™t care, so what.

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    mistercatworks  over 1 year ago

    At a national military academy, I got an ā€œAā€ in calculus. My grade on the final exam was 10%. The policy was that you could not ā€œflunk outā€ unless that was the reason you wanted to put in record, so they used a ā€œcurveā€. The excuse was that we were living on about 5 1/2 hours of sleep a night and doing training when not in classes. Still, didnā€™t impress the UC when I transferred. I had to repeat everything .

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    paul brians  over 1 year ago

    Letā€™s just agree we follow many different paths.

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    bshutejr  over 1 year ago

    Headteacher is ā€œPrincipalā€ ā€“ you can remember with ā€œthe principal is your pal.ā€ ā€œPrincipleā€ is a fundamental truth or proposition, in the context of an individual a principle is a rule, belief, or idea that guides you. Some principals have principles, some donā€™t. The same could be said of certain politicians.

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    rugeirn  over 1 year ago

    I left academe because of grading. There was simply no way to give meaningful grades. Grade inflation was rampant, but completely unacknowledged. If you gave honest grades, you were giving grades at least a level and a half below the entire rest of the system and making your perfectly good student look terribleā€”which then affected their ability to get aid, to get placement at higher levels, and even to get jobs after graduation. If you gave inflated grades, you were perpetuating a lie that deluded students, faculty, and employers alike.

    The whole idea of a grade is stupid anyway. What every student needs is a a frequent, good sit-down with faculty in which we carefully and thoroughly go over the studentā€™s work, highlighting and exploring strengths and weaknesses and how to maintain whatā€™s strong and strengthen whatā€™s weak.

    However, thatā€™s not possible in a world where education has stopped being education and has morphed into industrialized mass vocational training. We donā€™t teach minds. We teach skills. Thereā€™s a huge difference.

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    katebofde  over 1 year ago

    Stat means do something immediately.

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    hklsubs  over 1 year ago

    Am I the only one that thinks that Zonk is acting very un-Zonk-like in this story-line?

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    Madric  over 1 year ago

    Interesting on the math/maths, but why do you say Principle rather than Principal?

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