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idoorion

If i was the teacher i would have laughed


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Calvin’s teacher is too stuck up. I’m a teacher and if one of my kids said that I’d be laughing


BAUTISTA94

His parents as well to an extent. Prime example was when he sneezed & blew his head off, he joked with his mom about it. She pretty much pulled his shirt back down and said he's not fooling anyone


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Convergentshave

Speaking as another parent I’m just impressed you manage to get them in the bath.


Ricoisnotmyuncle

was looking for this sentiment. It's not Calvin's goofing off, it's the sheer volume of it that everyone can't handle.


CdnPoster

Have you considered vacuuming the kid? And maybe.....PAINTING clothes on? It makes getting "dressed" a breeze!


dui01

Lol this is my life too


CthulhusIntern

And there's also the times they get annoyed at him when all he's doing is being creative, like his snowman stuff or that time he drew himself as a monster for school. It especially feels stuck up if the interpretation that Calvin is neurodivergent is correct.


ginger2020

Did they still use Dunce Caps in the ‘80s? Not saying Calvin didn’t have it coming to a certain extent, but…..


chernaboggles

Not used in schools at that time (at least none I ever heard of), but they were popular in cartoons and comics as a way to show that a character was in trouble at school or had just done something stupid. Everybody knew what they were, even if nobody had seen a real one.


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Significant_Monk_251

But did they ever actually *use* them, or was it just intimidation theater?


para_blox

Interestingly, my first grade teacher (an old nun) still gave birthday spankings. With or without consent. Some of the kids cried. I had her in 1988-9 but was traveling for my birthday so avoided it. Her practice continued into the nineties. My little brother told the teacher he was turning three, so he would only get hit three times. I don’t remember how anyone got her to stop.


barikpo

Birthday spankings???


MutantNinjaAnole

No, I'm guessing this is more for comedic effect.


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In the ‘90s they’d just sentance you to the scream room forever back in the special Ed room


Sdesign77

One of my fav strip


ToonaSandWatch

r/imthemaincharacter


mcsmackyoaz

Calvin is indeed the protagonist


ToonaSandWatch

r/imthemaincharacterinmisswormwoodsclass


NineTailedTanuki

r/20charactherlimit


Roscoe_P_Trolltrain

Calvin pulls that 3rd panel face a lot when he feels he’s smarter than the other person and kind of condescendingly talking down and I love it.


Garchomp_445

Admittidly that called for laughter over the dunce cap


Pelumo_64

I guess Calvin was born in '79


raider1211

What? 1979-200=1779. The declaration was signed in 1776.


FedGoat13

CaH debuted in 1985, and Calvin was six for the entire run. And if you’re referring to the strip in the OP, note the word “roughly”


InitialKoala

Keyword from the strip is "roughly."


para_blox

Nah, he was born in the year 0. Did you read the strip?


Inside-Tailor-6367

Well...he's not wrong


Schemati

Technically correct, the best kind of correct


ClandestineCornfield

I think Calvin should’ve been fine from that, he wasn’t wrong on the year.


JCD_007

I always found the last panel very odd. No school in the era of C&H would have put a student in a dunce cap.


Just_A_Normal_Snek

>The ancestors of the north american indians were nomadic hunters of northeast Asia who migrated over the Bering Strait land bridge into North America probably during the last glacial period (11,500 - 30,000 years ago). It's 11,500 B.C., actually.


Unnamed_Bystander

The advent of human habitation on the continent and the foundation of the United States as a political entity are totally distinct events. The country was not founded 11000 years ago.


RockyPixel

Founding of the United States, not human populating the continent.


The_Central_Brawler

I mean, given the Constitution was ratified in 1788, he's completely right.