Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 28, 2023

Earth to Patty, earth to Patty!

Well, she seems smarter at obedience school.

Part of this has to be her father’s fault.

“Play dead” should be interesting.

Maybe she will get a treat today.

I can see the instructors having a good time laughing at her.

Patty’s dogged persistence is admirable! :D

Learn by doing, instead of use it in a sentence.

Peppermint Patty is the dog!? Ha ha ha ha ha! :D

I bet she aces hole digging

Why “Learn by doing”?

At least PP isn’t complaining about dog germs like Lucy would…

Trainer’s inner monologue: “This feels wrong, but money’s money.”

Ace is a diploma mill. They’ll take anyone who will pay their tuition.

When are you going to see things clearly, sir?

There is no way she is that dumb!

I took a course to train us to be facilitators (How to run a meeting – a skill people who host debates have not seem to have mastered.)

In it we learned about how people learn and we took a test to evaluate our learning styles. I was off scale in visual and kinesthetic. If I can see it and I can do it, I can master it. I scored exceptionally poor on audio. I forget the details of the spoken word before the sound bounces off the wall behind me). Which is why I carry around a spiral notebook, that has on the cover, my name followed by the words “Short Term Memory.”

The only other person whose learning style came close to me was a fellow aviator. People of this learning profile must fit the job description of pilot.

So, yes, learning by doing is very important to some of us.

you’d think the teachers would say something. I once too ka class at my office on emergency response and we were trained on the defribulator. one woman, looking down at the body, having checked it’s life signs seemed stuck. so the paramedic gave her a clue- use the pads. It’s sort of hard to describe what happened next but imagine the instructor loudly declaring “ON the dummy! not on you!”

I’d wager a Poodle and a Border Collie would both be smarter than poor PP

It’s hard to believe that a kid that can put together a winning baseball team, that regularly wipes out Chuck’s team, could be, in most other things, dumb as a post. I wonder is this might’ve been Schulz’s comment on baseball managers.

Sad part is, is that the school is going along with it

“Who’s a good girl!”

Montessori it ain’t.

That’s probably the first correct answer Peppermint has given in school in a long time.So she IS improving!

Another strip that breaks my suspension of disbelief. Whenever we see her interacting with one of the school’s staff members, I can’t wrap my head around why the unseen adult is insisting on treating her like a dog. This doesn’t even admit the possibility that he might somehow be mistaking her for one.

I will bet the instructor is thrilled to finally have a student who can not only hear, but answer!

Might help her jaw muscles

fetchez la vache

This is humiliating.

Well, as an educator I learned the the 3 levels of concept retention: 1- lecture 2 -Demonstration/Video/Display 3 – (the most impactful) is the actual “doing” aka hands on.

Which kid thinks Snoopy is a kid?

I rarely say this about ‘Peanuts’. But I wish for this arc to end?

This is so sad making a child look so stupid.