Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 12, 2024

Back when I attended grade sch-gaol the stretch from Presidents day to the Spring break was about 17 months long. We did NOT have “teacher work days” or any of that namby-pamby stuff either!

Wait till you have a job and at best, get two weeks off. Unless you live in Norway, but you don’t.

Makes it just a little tougher to complain??

All this time I thought Frazz understood kids.

I thought I heard that in China or Japan that they don’t have a summer break at all. Or I could have misheard this.

Everbody complains about how short breaks are. Forgetting, I guess, the two days in seven they have off every week.

A kid wants to complain, he/she will find something. They become adults with the same trait, but are a much larger pain in the . . . end.

You have no idea how fast time flies

When I was a kid, summer break lasted what seemed like a year.

Yes, I’m a happy person by nature, but I don’t let little things stand in the way of a good, satisfying whine.

Or forget what you have learned!

Queror ergo sum.

At 180 days, the school year in the USA is one of the shorter school years in the world. And the culture that is almost anti-school during the summer, or even Thanksgiving or winter or spring, break doesn’t help. No wonder elementary, and some middle school teachers spend about 2 – 4 weeks each year reviewing the subject matter from the previous year.

I don’t remember any extra days off other than 2 days for Thanksgiving, Christmas was from the day Dec 24-Jan 2nd. No spring break but Good Friday and Easter Monday. We got out of school during the last week of May – but didn’t start school until the Tuesday after Labor Day – so 3 solid months off. This was in Michigan in the 50s and 60s – there were no Monday holidays and I really don’t remember if we got either Washington’s or Lincoln’s Birthday off – probably not. The kids here in Florida start in mid-August and end in first full week of June. Are those both the same amount of school days – I have no idea.

I think Caulfield is affecting the other students.