Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 30, 2012

You did, it was called kindergarten.

No, straight to the Ds for you, Calvin.

Who has a bigger moon shaped head; Susie or Dill from Cul De Sac?

Calvin brings up an interesting point. He should ask where the letter grades or marks come from? It would be interesting to see what the girl says. I was always amazed when kids and parents did not know where the letter grades come from. If you don’t know either just tell me and I’ll tell you later. Wilf

Got a few F- coming up have you Calvin?

Click here: Peanuts (1983)

Sorry Calvin, Practice semesters are available only in kindergartens.

Calvin must have missed the induction course ‘School 101’… miss that induction and all you’ll likely achieve is expulsion!

Practice semester!

Somebody ought to tell Calvin that a few practice semesters would make his academic career last a year longer.

My brother failed kindergarten

Back in the day getting left back in school was a terrible disgrace. Today they just pass them to get rid of them. Sad.

Isn’t the school year long enough without the practice semesters?

Hey you get a few practice frames in bowling, why not practice semesters?

@Dogsniff: Maybe somebodyshort went to school near the white cliffs of Do-over.(Please don’t grade the humor on this one. It’s just a practice posting.)

@Wiseguy411: During the early days of Peanuts, Schulz would sometimes have the the kids sitting on a curb talking. He invented the wall when he realized that it wasn’t a good idea to show kids doing this. I’m thinking that he may have gotten the idea for the wall from his early practice of sometimes showing kids walking behind a similar wall in one of the frames as they talked.

I got plenty of D’s. It didn’t bother me a bit. Like Calvin, I thought the stuff wasn’t anything I was interested in learning.

Actually in these days of “No Child Left Behind” Kindergarten is no longer rehearsal. They go all-day to prepare for the state tests.

Also, teachers still give D’s and F’s but the administration will probably change them if (when) the parents complain.

Ggggggrrrrroooooaaaannnnn!!!

Practice is over Calvin. Welcome to the real world

Apparently Calvin hasn’t read, “Grades for Dummies”.

The teacher is handing out report cards; Calvin doesn’t have to report for it.

Well, I guess this is D day for you Calvin.I used to get in huge arguments with my ex-wife because she was an A straight student all through Elementary school up to Senior High and now she gets upset at my kids when they get a B…. geez talk about pressure!!!!!!!Now she just rolls her eyes when I tell them it’s ok. They are smart, and as long as they understand what they did wrong, that’s how you learn.

If Calvin is not to be left behind, he’ll have to be pushed and shoved ahead … But how? And if so, then he’ll be no Calvin no more …

Andrea@home said, about 11 hours agoIf only life had a few practice runs first.=======I’m with you on that! :-)

The Dean of a college was once addressing the instructors. He said to be nice to the A students, as they will be coming back as instructors.Also, be kind to the B students as they will be the main supporters of the Alumni Association.Also, be kind to the C and D students, as they will be the ones coming back and donating funds, libraries, gymnasiums————

Too true! If there are no C’s, D’s and F’s . . . if there are no losers at anything in life when they’re kids because it will “scar” them emotionally forever . . . then what’s the point of working, dreaming, reaching for the stars if there’s nothing in life really worth striving for???

If Calvin doesn’t like the idea of grades now based on his homework and test scores . . . just wait until he gets older and comes across teachers/professors that grade on a curve with smart kids like Susie Derkins in his classes leading the way!

;-)

Just keep flunkin’. You can take it all over again.At least that’s the way it used to be.

I know how Calvin feels, I had several “practice semesters” in college before I realized they all counted.

My life is just one pop quiz after another.

sometimes, my scholastic performance was so bad, the ‘powers that were’ had to recalibrate the grading system to award me a ‘G’ !

All that from a Calvin and Hobbes strip?

4th grade was the best decade of my life.

Calvin, where do you think your are — Caltech, where there aren’t grades for the first year?

WHERE DID GRADES COME FROM?William Farish, a tutor at Cambridge University in England in 1792, came up with a method of teaching which would allow him to process more students in a shorter period of time. He invented grades (Hartmann, 2005). This grading system had originated earlier in the factories as a way of determining if the shoes made on the assembly line were “up to grade.” It was used as a benchmark to determine if the workers should be paid and if the shoes could be sold (Hartmann, 2005). This grading method increased the salary of William Farish, while at the same time, lessened his workload and reduced the hours he needed to spend in the classroom(Hartmann, 2005). He no longer needed to burrow into his students’ minds to know if they understood a topic, his grading system would do it for him. And, it would do it just as efficiently for twenty children as it would for two hundred. Farish brought grades to the classroom, and the transformation was both sudden and startling. Within a generation, the lecture-hall/classroom shifted from a place where one heard the occasional speech by a famous thinker to the place of ordinary daily instruction (Hartmann, 2005).

this book i what to read is caviin and hobbes

I hate going there too, but I think they all need some mulligans -some more than others.

Yeah. I agree.

Do they publish a “Grades for Dummies” book?

Well,DUH we’re getting graded!Don’t we on everything?

rofl! “we’re being graded?!”

I wish

I used to think like that.