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10/05/2026 7:13 pm
Easy test for me!
Ed Davis
Inverness, Illinois, USA
11/05/2026 6:35 am
So funny if not so sad. When did we stop teaching in schools?
Like Ed, above, these are all simple, basic life skills. And driving three-on-the-tree too! 
11/05/2026 6:39 am
It's a new world.
John Bono
North Jersey
11/05/2026 6:42 am
It's a new world.
Yeah; but so long as you're still here and the rest of the guys, there's STILL hope! 
11/05/2026 6:50 am
Our grandson, Blake, is as smart a young man that I have ever known. He's now 33 and a neuroscientist/surgeon, at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA. He lived with us the year that he was going to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, the large town north of us, for his Masters degree.
At the time he was about 29 I think. He could not tell time on an analog clock or write cursive, make out a simple check, cook a meal or clean his own clothes. I took those tasks on. Ya know, teaching him cursive was the toughest chore.
H went on to Vanderbilt, in Nashville to get his PhD in Neuroscience & Neurobiology. He can do all the above now but still can't drive a stick shift!
Blake in the middle between his dad and his Grampa T.
This post was modified 2 days ago by Tony Perrone
11/05/2026 7:27 am
@perrone1 Good for Blake Tony, that is quite an accomplishment! To be fair, I think I can accept his 3-on the tree shortcomings even more than what he might think seeing me do surgery. 😉
11/05/2026 7:38 am
Bugs and Tweety both look nervous. They both have been around a long time but I guess they forgot.
11/05/2026 7:55 am
I taught all my kids (4) cursive, as you need to be able to sign your name to documents, checks etc. It was dropped in schools and I do not know why, when it is part of everyday life.
11/05/2026 9:24 am
@carsman1958 Well, I'll be... I had no idea they don't teach cursive in the USA, anymore. Do we know the name(s) of the idiot(s) who made this decision?
It brings me back to one of the 'founders' of public education, John D. Rockefeller's advisor, Frederick Taylor Gates. Gates was instrumental in the founding and operation of the General Education Board and described its philosophy this way in his 1916 book, "The Country School of Tomorrow":
We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply…
The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are… So we will organize our children into a little community and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm.
Ironically, it was J. Paul Getty who famously stated: "The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges."
Prescient, was he.
This post was modified 2 days ago by GDH
11/05/2026 9:30 am
The supposed technology they're using in schools today, I don't believe is making kids smarter, its dumbing them down.....sadly.😟
11/05/2026 9:52 am
Good going Blake...the good news there are not many cars on the road with 3-on the tree.
John Bono
North Jersey
11/05/2026 9:53 am
Good going Blake...the good news there are not many cars on the road with 3-on the tree.
He drives a Honda automatic. Good to go.
12/05/2026 5:32 am
And here's yet another problem - understanding terminology. Presented in today's very believable strip - Pickles:
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