Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 17, 2025

Mr. Spatzchel should be along soon.

I thought that winter break was in late December!

Actually its Presidents’ Day. Some places don’t have their break until March.

Depends on union contracts?

Depends on where you are, too.

Now both of you go home and enjoy the week off.

I love coming to the comments section and laughing at the people who struggle with the fact that different parts of the country and world do things differently than wherever the reader is. Yes, large parts of the U.S. start a week-long break on Presidents’ Day. No, it may not be that way where you live.

So there’s a Christmas break, a spring break, and a winter break? That’s new to me.

But it is Presidents Day, so she showed up on a holiday.

In Miami-Dade County, we have a week-long Thanksgiving break, a two-week Christmas break, and a week-long spring break.

I’m not a parent myself, so probably actual parents have already figured this out, but what do the kids do at home all day if both parents are at work? Or if there’s only one parent to begin with? And can you really leave little toddlers at home alone? Probably not, but what then?

I’ve heard educational reasons for having year-round school, but family impact seems to me to make the more compelling case.

Caulfield would have been out anyway. He never seems to be ‘at rest.’ But this time, he just didn’t pay attention to the announcement about school closing. Either that, or his parents didn’t tell him so he wouldn’t be home pestering them all day.

Not to show my age, but when I was a lad winter break was called the weekend…

Some localities in the upper Midwest have a winter break.

That way has just happened!

Ok, I can maybe understand how Mrs. Olsen might forget and show up on a Monday because she forgot it was a holiday…but a student forgetting there isn’t any school. . . .Never Happen!

I showed up for work one time on a Holiday. It wasn’t until I saw the empty parking lot that I had a clue to what I had done. I thought traffic was unusually light that morning. . . The Mrs laughed when I got back home.

Oops I did it again

I showed up at school

On first day of break

Oh Caulfield Caulfield

Oops he’ll think I’m confused

His respect I will lose

I should have had coffee first

Our college had 6 weeks off; all of January and half way through February

Today is Family Day in Ontario, Canada

… better?

God bless Caulfield…..

I taught 35 years (retired now). I never mistakenly went to work on an off day. But is funny….

Bonding time LOL

Get revenge on his parents. Buy him a giant coffee and walk him home.

Some colleges have long winter breaks to save money on heating.

It’s Presidents Day, the school should be closed shouldn’t it? Oh oh Mrs O

Too funny!