This reminds me of my second least favorite English teacher – and for context, all my English teachers disliked me from middle school onwards. Other teachers liked me just fine, but English teachers could not stand me.
Anyway, my second least favorite English teacher chewed me out for my recreational reading because “surely I could read at a more advanced level”. I was in middle school, it was a middle grade book. Sure, I could read at a post-graduate level and have been doing so since the age of nine, but why should I?
Still, at least she’s not my very least favorite English teacher. (Though they both shared the same lack of sense of humor.)
Nice reference! It’s said that Starbuck’s was originally going to be called Queequeg’s, after the charcter from Moby Dick, but they decided that the name was just too odd so they switched to Starbuck’s to keep the link to Moby Dick but with a more straightforward name.
Yakety Sax 2 months ago
ROFL!
Bilan 2 months ago
Get her a Keurig with plenty of pods and you’ll never have another reading assignment all year.
Sanspareil 2 months ago
Those beans were picked by Juan Valdez!
TheSkulker 2 months ago
So Caufield’s reading prowess is now canon
Nachikethass 2 months ago
Then move him on to a higher grade. Why infest a good teacher and less gifted students with his “superiority”?
sbenton7684 2 months ago
OMG that’s funny Mr. Mallett!!
conuly 2 months ago
This reminds me of my second least favorite English teacher – and for context, all my English teachers disliked me from middle school onwards. Other teachers liked me just fine, but English teachers could not stand me.
Anyway, my second least favorite English teacher chewed me out for my recreational reading because “surely I could read at a more advanced level”. I was in middle school, it was a middle grade book. Sure, I could read at a post-graduate level and have been doing so since the age of nine, but why should I?
Still, at least she’s not my very least favorite English teacher. (Though they both shared the same lack of sense of humor.)
misc.Barry 2 months ago
Nice reference! It’s said that Starbuck’s was originally going to be called Queequeg’s, after the charcter from Moby Dick, but they decided that the name was just too odd so they switched to Starbuck’s to keep the link to Moby Dick but with a more straightforward name.
Doug K 2 months ago
Is Frazz monitoring Mrs’ Olsen’s bathroom breaks?
jessegooddoggy 2 months ago
LOVE THIS !!!
sandpiper 2 months ago
Caulfield crossed a line when he messed with Mrs. Olsen’s coffee. Even in jest, which this was not, that was neither appropriate nor fair.
royq27 2 months ago
I used to bring my teachers agita…
rshive 2 months ago
Caulfield knows where to spread the butter/coffee.
Cozmik Cowboy 2 months ago
Your lesson for today, Caulfield: That’s not coffee; that’s a milkshake.
allegro 2 months ago
“I already read at a college level.” We all love a braggart, don’t we?
eced52 2 months ago
That boy is a menace.
George C. Hopkins 2 months ago
I’ve read ‘Moby Dick’, or, as I like to refer to it “Darn it, Melville, Get on with it!”
Richard S Russell Premium Member 2 months ago
How long ago did you stop at the coffee joint, kid? Bet that mocha’s cooled down some since then.