If I were the teacher, I’d probably tell Danae that I would file this for her next fiction assignment and expect a verifiable true-life rewrite on Monday (verified by a call to her dad). Of course, I could just fail her for not doing the assignment properly, but that wouldn’t really teach her anything other than to hate learning, and say what you will about Danae, she’s smart. If her creative talent can be positively directed, that’s a good thing.
The Ministry of Truth over there on the left does a lot of imagineering but is is not as amusing and a lot more malicious. Hey, bro, mushrooms gotta eat and they put out the mushroom chow by the gallon. Non nom nom
When my friends and I didn’t know the answer to a question on a Historal test, we would make up something fanciful and amusing. It was still marked incorrect — but over the years our teacher accumulated quite a collection of schoolboy humor.
One friend wrote an entire term paper with footnotes attributing fictitious authorities, using the slightly disguised names of other students. Well, he said, at least the teacher can’t accuse me of plagiarism. [The teacher was a good enough sport to merely make him rewrite the paper.]
Lots of students have created extra work and a low grade for themselves when responding to a list of directions to follow that begins with #1 Read the entire list before you respond" and ends with #10 Skip numbers 2 through 9, put your name on the paper and turn it in.
Years ago I applied for a job with Disney’s “Imagineers.” (I didn’t get the job.) I don’t know if they still use the name, but you’ve got to be careful using a word they invented.
My mother, a 3rd grade teacher, who taught for 39 years, retired early. Though her getting lymphoma probably had more to do the retirement than the kids. Of course, she didn’t have Danae in her class, either.
A good teacher would treasure a student like Danae (who comes along maybe 2-3 times in a career), water that flower, watch it grow and blossom, and tell the teacher in the next grade up the line what a treat they’ve got coming!
Danae, dear, just add something like “and then I woke up” to the end. Your most memorable day was the day you had this particular fantasy (as you yourself say, way more memorable than anything that actually happened), so it clearly fits the terms of the assignment.
willispate about 2 months ago
Panel 4 is hilarious! laughing
ACK! Premium Member about 2 months ago
If you can’t dazzle ’em with brilliance …
Wilde Bill about 2 months ago
Oddly enough, every one of my teachers who talked about “early retirement” ended up teaching my younger brother.
HidariMak about 2 months ago
If I were Danae’s teacher, I’d be considering drinking early.
PoodleGroomer about 2 months ago
Some reports are supposed to have an essence of truth.
enigmamz about 2 months ago
My class broke in new teachers in 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th grades.
Firebat about 2 months ago
Danae has a good point. I wouldn’t like to be her teacher though.
vlad8601 about 2 months ago
the teacher missed the point. the assignment was all about creative writing
Jaddis about 2 months ago
The teacher longing for retirement is similar to Ms Wormwood in Calvin and Hobbes; for example – 3/1/93…
cdward about 2 months ago
If I were the teacher, I’d probably tell Danae that I would file this for her next fiction assignment and expect a verifiable true-life rewrite on Monday (verified by a call to her dad). Of course, I could just fail her for not doing the assignment properly, but that wouldn’t really teach her anything other than to hate learning, and say what you will about Danae, she’s smart. If her creative talent can be positively directed, that’s a good thing.
nancyb creator about 2 months ago
That teacher is terrible. Danae wrote a great paper.
Count Olaf Premium Member about 2 months ago
The Ministry of Truth over there on the left does a lot of imagineering but is is not as amusing and a lot more malicious. Hey, bro, mushrooms gotta eat and they put out the mushroom chow by the gallon. Non nom nom
PraiseofFolly about 2 months ago
When my friends and I didn’t know the answer to a question on a Historal test, we would make up something fanciful and amusing. It was still marked incorrect — but over the years our teacher accumulated quite a collection of schoolboy humor.
One friend wrote an entire term paper with footnotes attributing fictitious authorities, using the slightly disguised names of other students. Well, he said, at least the teacher can’t accuse me of plagiarism. [The teacher was a good enough sport to merely make him rewrite the paper.][Traveler] Premium Member about 2 months ago
In the army, pass-fail was “Go-No Go” as in “you are a No Go at this station”
boydjb47 about 2 months ago
She blinded her with science …fiction!
Stormy Panda about 2 months ago
No one is honest in their memoirs.
ladykat about 2 months ago
Danae, you’re wearing your teacher out.
sandpiper about 2 months ago
End of arc . . . I think. If so, thank goodness.
batesmom7 about 2 months ago
Lots of students have created extra work and a low grade for themselves when responding to a list of directions to follow that begins with #1 Read the entire list before you respond" and ends with #10 Skip numbers 2 through 9, put your name on the paper and turn it in.
curtisrus about 2 months ago
Science fantasy, not (hard) science fiction.
SusieB about 2 months ago
Retiring early? She looks quite a bit over retirement age to me
david.reichert about 2 months ago
Danae’s hair doesn’t really qualifiy as “Bangs”, can we call it a “Bang”?
Dapperdan61 Premium Member about 2 months ago
Danae just broke another Teacher
pshapley Premium Member about 2 months ago
Years ago I applied for a job with Disney’s “Imagineers.” (I didn’t get the job.) I don’t know if they still use the name, but you’ve got to be careful using a word they invented.
Rauderi about 2 months ago
Best case scenario, Danae becomes a storyboard writer for Disney.
preacherman about 2 months ago
My mother, a 3rd grade teacher, who taught for 39 years, retired early. Though her getting lymphoma probably had more to do the retirement than the kids. Of course, she didn’t have Danae in her class, either.
locake about 2 months ago
Who will retire first, Calvin’s teacher or Danae’s teacher?
pripley about 2 months ago
“Imagineered Memoir” sounds like a phrase Bucky over on Get Fuzzy would use. He is the master of imagineered vocabulary.
Holden Awn about 2 months ago
No, it’s not science fiction — it’s fantasy. There is a difference. Look it up.
kathleenhicks62 about 2 months ago
I f she doesn’t stop the teacher will end up in a loony bin!
Mike Baldwin creator about 2 months ago
Did you use the words, I’m too old for this?
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 2 months ago
A good teacher would treasure a student like Danae (who comes along maybe 2-3 times in a career), water that flower, watch it grow and blossom, and tell the teacher in the next grade up the line what a treat they’ve got coming!
ChazNCenTex about 2 months ago
“Retire early”? She looks like she’s well past her ‘use by’ date.
daDoctah1 about 2 months ago
Danae, dear, just add something like “and then I woke up” to the end. Your most memorable day was the day you had this particular fantasy (as you yourself say, way more memorable than anything that actually happened), so it clearly fits the terms of the assignment.
eddi-TBH about 2 months ago
Danae watches too many of the wrong TV shows.
MY DOG IS MY CO PILOT about 2 months ago
I can see Dane’s teacher and Miss Wormwood from Calvin and Hobbes in a retirement home together somewhere swapping war stories.
keenanthelibrarian about 2 months ago
An “Imagineered Memoir” – is that the same as “Alternative Facts”??
MichaelD Premium Member about 2 months ago
If Danae and Calvin ever met, would that be like dividing by zero?
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] about 1 month ago
Lucy’s memoir about being owned by a weird little girl got an “A”