Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 12, 2016

Oh what she said!

And she gets the last laugh.

This seems like an appropriate place for a link to donorschoose.org, a place where you can donate to your own favorite teacher and school (and cool janitor), helping them give their kids the #BestSchoolDay ever.

Did you hear about Fran having an allergic reaction and rushing to the hospital?

No, what happened?

AdamantBitter AsininePlaces

thebird55 Now that is very good.For a teacher, any class he/she teaches becomes a ‘continuing education’ course.The legislatively mandated courses are simply payback for having time off in the best season of the year.

I taught my teachers a thing or two…and helped improve their swing.WAIT!!! Caulfield didn’t understand ???? That’s just ludicrous.

My aunt had enough continuing education to get a PhD in third grade education.

Is it just me or might Jef Mallett rename the strip “Caulfield”? He’s an interesting character. I wonder how many teachers will be tempted to have Irish coffee when they have him in class.

I think many of us lock in things one way or another. If you look at what most politicians espouse, you can trace it back geographically and to what was going on in their lives in their 20s and 30s.

I felt that continuing education was just a way to steer dollars to colleges.

Education is a double edged sword!

After the first 20 years or so, you can spend your time in the continuing education classes sitting with the other teachers with the same amount of time in and having a contest to see who can remember what they called the latest " educational innovation" the last three times someone came out with the same idea.

There are days that I agree with @bigpuma ’s assessment. (thus my original comment today) However, I do realize it is just a comic strip.In real life, I was and am a smart ass. I have had many comeuppances and deservedly so.

“Continuing education was intended to acknowledge that some things did change in 25-30 years.”-————————————————.Except in Louisiana. When my son was in third grade in 1989, the last passages in his science textbook read something like, “….and with the current advances in rocketry, it’s not unlikely that man will someday land on the moon.”.We were very happy to move onto a military installation and leave the civilian schools. To this day I feel sorry for students in poorly funded school districts who have to suffer from the stinginess of those who should be funding their education..I got a little impatient with a fellow about my age at a community meeting one time who was complaining about his property taxes because, “my kids are all out of school and I don’t know why I should pay to educate someone else’s.”.I had to remind him that in 30 years, if he’s lucky, today’s 13-year-old middle schooler will be the 43-year-old gerontologist keeping him alive in his nursing home..I want today’s youngsters to get an excellent education. I’m going to be needing my car maintained and my prescriptions filled and my computer repaired and my teeth cleaned for a long time to come, I hope. I don’t mind paying for their education now so they’ll be able to do that a couple of decades from now.

I am SO stealing that line…

I have often noted that if I were to meet myself as a kid (most especially 7th through 10th grades) I would want to slap my younger self’s face.