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1. 23 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   That 185 days “off” includes 52 Saturdays and 52 Sundays. Those remaining 81 days “off” are largely filled with classroom cleanup, at the start of the summer, classroom setup at the end of the break, and several weeks of mandatory trainings (inservice) and meetings. And often teachers do a month of summer school as well to supplement their pay.I’m not sure what “4 or 5 classes that are scheduled for 8 or 9” means. With planning and grading, I don’t know any teachers that put in less than 8 or 9 hours of real work per day. (Do you work at a school? I do.)

2. about 2 months ago on Frazz

   Actually the Arizona schedule is the result of the idiot state legislature (in their air conditioned chambers) wanting to finish the fall semester before Christmas. My son’s school didn’t even have A/C until he was in about second grade, around 2005. It was horrible.

   In the spring, school is out before Memorial Day.

3. about 2 months ago on Frazz

   Seeing as it’s August, school hasn’t started in Michigan, so it must be a flashback or something. (Here in Arizona, school is in its second week already.)

4. 3 months ago on Wallace the Brave

   Rose is up studying. It’s only 3 months until school starts, and she has to be ready.

5. 3 months ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   This actually happened to me when I was 15 or so. I was trying to roll the car out so I could wash it (I’d found you could jimmy the shift so it was out of park), but it kept going, curving across the yard where it hit a big tree. A little bumper damage, but as it was a 5 year old car, no problem. But I got chewed out for it.

   Then a couple years later, this arc came out. Mom clipped the entire series and put it up on the wall.

6. 4 months ago on Pickles

   No, they’ll milk the story for a week.

7. 4 months ago on Frazz

   Yesterday my phone said it was 105. I decided I didn’t need to check it out in person.

8. 4 months ago on Crabgrass

   Check last August 1.

9. 4 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   The only time someone printed something I wrote, they misspelled my name.

10. 5 months ago on Get Fuzzy

    I’m pretty sure that’s not Rob — just some sloppy neighbor from down the hallway. (that’s the apartment’s front door that Bucky’s blocking)