61 points

A real classic!

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I randomly a number of years ago came across this drawing and ever since I have been travelling down the Far Side rabbit hole.

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9 points

My original intro to the comic

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27 points

remember this getting changed to “Betsy DeVos School for the Gifted”

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This is one of the best

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14 points

A clear representation of gifted people being neurodivergent rather than better in some way. Sure the divergence can be beneficial in certain circumstances and at certain times, but that is not always the case.

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There’s two kinds of “gifted” in American educational parlance, one has a sweet af special bus and the others are ADHD kids that like to read.

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American educators today don’t use the gifted label for either of those. Here’s a bit about current gifted education: https://nagc.org/page/Gifted-Education-Strategies

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I’ll take your word for it as that page says nothing useful itself, and note that this comic is almost forty years old.

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They may not, but municipalities do. I have two kids in east coast public schools being my source, just as a heads up.

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11 points

Poor guy’s just catching his breath, missed the bus and had to bike it all the way before he gets a demerit for tardiness.

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2 points

Imagine someone opening that door. It is gonna be a bad time!

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Hello fellow Far Side fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

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