For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 07, 2025

Since they’ll be discussing “Romeo and Juliet”, this might be the perfect time for Liz and Anthony to rekindle their own romance.

This may turn out to be the modern twist to the Shakespeare school topic. So is Elizabeth and Anthony’s group supposed to be the Montague’s and Dawn and Candace are the Capulet’s in the well known family feud? Or vice versa. (Pardon my Latin language.)

Folks, we’re starting the new year with a Liz/Anthony maybe or maybe not arc, oh yippee skippy

When I was teaching I’d assign a group research project at the end of the semester. Many groups would work as intended, ie a group. Some would have their Candace and occasionally there would be a student who would do it all because they couldn’t entrust their grade to someone else.

Why is John at the high school?

Funny thing, though – all of them “speak” terrible English!

: – )

Fair enough.

Yay, Liz!

Elizabeth, you are wise in knowing that a leopard doesn’t change its spots, it just develops new hunting tactics.

Are we going to see a “I told you so” in a day or two? After all Tiger’s can’t change their stripes

That’s what I say when ppl say “Give whoever the benefit of the doubt”, I say, “It’s to my benefit that I doubt that person!”!

Good one, Liz!

Elizabeth: Michael and Rhetta started out like Romeo & Juliet but they ended up in tragedy. :P

One thing I never had in any school I went to was a “team” project.

Me,I’m an OTHELLO fan…..

And here I am just learning that the correct hyphenation IS indeed En-glish. I always thought it was Eng-lish.

It’s gonna be a rough time in old Verona ! ;-)

She will change and grow, but not this year.

I’m surprised she’s got a reputation as a freeloader, though. She usually seems to take academics pretty seriously, all things considered.

Once a layabout, always a layabout

This will be an easier job that Dawn’s hairdresser has. Put a cereal bowl over Dawn’s head, then cut! :P

Yep – I called it yesterday. That’s precisely the problem with “group” projects. Totally unfair and totally inexcusable.

I was shocked to encounter this group-think in the mid-80’s in graduate school. I did the vast majority of the work and everyone got an A whether they did anything or not. I think it is a way to relieve the teacher and most students of doing the hard work. Sorry, but just my opinion. I saw this in high school teacher training decades later and I think it explains the lack of thinking ability we see in the past couple generations of adults.

For a quick second, I thought that was John in the middle in the first panel.

That will change, Liz. She’ll be your best friend by the time you’re in college.

The fun part about this story is that Elizabeth is describing her own work ethic when it comes to school work. Anthony has not yet established himself as being a super genius, but when he does, it will be clear that this is also Elizabeth’s motivation for wanting to work with him.