Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 16, 2023

I remember Patty wanted to go to school for gifted children because she thought they gave her gifts. Remedial comprehension isn’t her strength.

Trade school Patty?

Can her dad really afford this?

Good on, Marcie for making sure Peppermint Patty doesn’t get distracted by the flashy stuff.

Field trips to Norway? I’d be happy to invite her home!

“And it’s getting harder every day, sir.”

PP needs one with remedial everything.

This is one of the craziest long arcs. I like the long ones.

She needs a school that teaches remedial studying habits. Most kid today don’t know how to study, how to put words together to make a sentence much less a paragraph, how to do simple arithmetic. What we do though is toss millions and millions of dollars on Equity programs that seem to promote racism. Instead of uniting people as people and fellow Americans. They are promoting the classic Us vs Them.

At least the one Marcie pointed out actually teaches something.

Every private school that I’ve attended has been closed down for years, so it looks like I won’t be attending any class reunions.

Ah yes, Marcie the realist…

I wonder if Collette or Contiki Holidays offer private schools for vacation trips to foreign countries.

Look closer Marcy. Mandatory remedial reading in several foreign languages.

Sounds like a megachurch program

Shouldn’t her dad be presenting her with the schools that would meet her needs?

PP’s father should thank Marcie

Marcie majors in reality. Well, sometimes.

The Count knows of a private school where the students were sent to a Habitat for Humanity project in Mexico and all the students came home with head lice.

The Count knows of another private school that had a trip to China. Every pair of jeans the students took with them except the ones they were wearing were stolen from the tour provided group lodging while they were doing day trips and they were robbed blind by pickpockets on Tiananmen Square.

Name change in order from Peppermint Patty to Peppermint Preppy?

Wait – there’s learning involved?

Someone has to….

How about one with a Music Appreciation class where she will learn that Handel’s first name wasn’t Joe (as she thought in “It’s Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown”) ?

Was it Mindel?

It’s like that old R & R song, “The answer my friend is blowing in the wind”.

Knock it off, Marcie; earth sucks.

You need to focus on the ‘why’, Sir. That’s what Marcy needs to say.

I’d pick number 2 or 3. And also kick Marcie out of the house.

I was hearing recently that one way to upset a Dutchman is to refer to The Netherlands as Holland. Holland is a province in The Netherlands. It is like calling the USA Arizona.