Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 06, 2023

Quit while you are behind Sally

Sally, don’t cause the new school to um… collapse itself too.

You ARE home, school.

Let me go home Let me go home I wanna go home, yeah,

yeah Well, I feel so broke up I wanna go home (The Beach Boys)

Pretty soon the new building will figure why the old collapsed and will want to do it, too.

The BBC reports that school buildings have been closed because [of] potentially dangerous RAAC [reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete] that has been found. We have an £11.4 billion backlog of repairs and remedial work required and the chickens have come home to roost over this neglect of school buildings.

Little strokes fell big oaks. Constant dripping wears away the rock. Permanent nagging ruins even a school building’s bricks – Sally’s on her way again!

Must be a Christian school.

4th frame is me every time I leave the house.

Most of us can probably name somebody they know who has vandalized a school, but can you name anybody who has ‘plundered’ a school?

“Man, that school blackboard and chalk would look terrific in my new living room! By George, I think I will go plunder it!”

Ah, the good old days and a simpler time.

I have a tee shirt with that on it!!!!!!!

Not exactly the best way to open a rapport with the new school, Sally!

You are home, school.

I do hate the building strips

So does everyone else, School. Get used to it.

Kolin Kelly’s brickyard? (from Krazy Kat)

It’s different time, school, from when you were a simple one room schoolhouse.

Isn’t that one of the Beatitudes?

Then the students arrive.

It got worse.

I’m sure it’ll be quite comfortable being a mansion

If this school building is in a city, it’s missing some “Building Art” provided by your local Graffiti artiste.

All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall.

It’s only the beginning—poor building.

Which is where exactly?

So much for the motivational speech

I commend our current comics creators and writers who seem to have seized the opportunity to use the medium to make readers think a bit about the assault of modern behaviors upon our institutions. It seems there are no ‘sacred cows’ anymore, and the scourge that is modern society attacks indiscriminately and continually degrades our cultural experience and identity. We now live in an environment where the inmates are running the asylum. I feel more like E.T. than human, and I too want to go “Home”. God bless the cartoonists, the conscience of our culture.

Sorry school …… you “ARE” home …. at least for now …… :)

“Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me.”

Of course, it’s just a school, not Jesus.

You are home. Don’t worry, you will be left alone for 16 hours a day during school, and for three months in the summer.

Bad news, You are home!

You Can’t Go Home Again —Thomas Wolfe

the building will be ok, it’s built like a brick sh!thouse

Poor school. At least its not in Florida.