This reminds me of my second least favorite English teacher – and for context, all my English teachers disliked me from middle school onwards. Other teachers liked me just fine, but English teachers could not stand me.
Anyway, my second least favorite English teacher chewed me out for my recreational reading because “surely I could read at a more advanced level”. I was in middle school, it was a middle grade book. Sure, I could read at a post-graduate level and have been doing so since the age of nine, but why should I?
Still, at least she’s not my very least favorite English teacher. (Though they both shared the same lack of sense of humor.)
Nice reference! It’s said that Starbuck’s was originally going to be called Queequeg’s, after the charcter from Moby Dick, but they decided that the name was just too odd so they switched to Starbuck’s to keep the link to Moby Dick but with a more straightforward name.
Yakety Sax 11 days ago
ROFL!
Bilan 11 days ago
Get her a Keurig with plenty of pods and you’ll never have another reading assignment all year.
Sanspareil 11 days ago
Those beans were picked by Juan Valdez!
TheSkulker 11 days ago
So Caufield’s reading prowess is now canon
Nachikethass 11 days ago
Then move him on to a higher grade. Why infest a good teacher and less gifted students with his “superiority”?
sbenton7684 11 days ago
OMG that’s funny Mr. Mallett!!
conuly 11 days ago
This reminds me of my second least favorite English teacher – and for context, all my English teachers disliked me from middle school onwards. Other teachers liked me just fine, but English teachers could not stand me.
Anyway, my second least favorite English teacher chewed me out for my recreational reading because “surely I could read at a more advanced level”. I was in middle school, it was a middle grade book. Sure, I could read at a post-graduate level and have been doing so since the age of nine, but why should I?
Still, at least she’s not my very least favorite English teacher. (Though they both shared the same lack of sense of humor.)
misc.Barry 11 days ago
Nice reference! It’s said that Starbuck’s was originally going to be called Queequeg’s, after the charcter from Moby Dick, but they decided that the name was just too odd so they switched to Starbuck’s to keep the link to Moby Dick but with a more straightforward name.
Doug K 11 days ago
Is Frazz monitoring Mrs’ Olsen’s bathroom breaks?
jessegooddoggy 11 days ago
LOVE THIS !!!
sandpiper 11 days ago
Caulfield crossed a line when he messed with Mrs. Olsen’s coffee. Even in jest, which this was not, that was neither appropriate nor fair.
royq27 11 days ago
I used to bring my teachers agita…
rshive 11 days ago
Caulfield knows where to spread the butter/coffee.
Cozmik Cowboy 10 days ago
Your lesson for today, Caulfield: That’s not coffee; that’s a milkshake.
allegro 10 days ago
“I already read at a college level.” We all love a braggart, don’t we?
eced52 10 days ago
That boy is a menace.
George C. Hopkins 10 days ago
I’ve read ‘Moby Dick’, or, as I like to refer to it “Darn it, Melville, Get on with it!”
Richard S Russell Premium Member 10 days ago
How long ago did you stop at the coffee joint, kid? Bet that mocha’s cooled down some since then.