Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for December 23, 2011

Ran into a teacher last week, asked him how things were going. “Eight more days!” he cried. “Yeah,” I said, “but who’s counting?” His immediate reaction: “I AM!” We just closed down after classes yesterday. And I find, much to my surprise (and due to a couple of students’ digging) that my county has a public school policy forbidding homework over holiday periods. Seems one of their teachers loaded up on ’em.