“I was trying so hard to pay attention, I didn’t quite hear what you were saying.”
Walter Goldstein
May 14, 1960

Cartoons: Back to School

These cartoons from the 1950s and ’60s are old school!

August 31, 2022 

“If she knows so much, how come she’s only teaching Grade Two?”
Chon Day
May 2, 1959

 

“My report card. If you want me I’ll be in my room packing.”
Dave Hirsch
March 7, 1959

 

“Sure, I’ll help you find your common denominator. Where did you lose it?”
Al Johns
January 16, 1960

 

“Oh come now, mother. He won’t forget.”
Joseph Zeis
January 9, 1960

 

“I don’t understand why she says I’m lacking in control. I can clunk Rodney with an eraser at twenty-five feet!”
George Wolfe
June 10, 1961

 

“Our current-events teacher keeps bursting into tears.”
Chon Day
May 21, 1960

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