my, isn´t Tehk a ray of pure sunshine! while his poor parents are standing rather timidly at the side….i´m curious how all three will react to learning that selkie´s parent is a non-fishy person
if it was up to me, I’d just about guarantee that they don’t speak a word of English… Tek could be just like how Truck and his father were… Not that he’s a bully, but his differing mentality when witnessed by parents vs. not seen by parents… such that whenever he’s talking Tensei, he’s the bestest little boy they could want, but get him talking English, and he turns into the sarcastic snarker we see here…
i HOPE they will be pleased that an air-breather like Todd even KNOWS the socially acceptable way that Sarnothi greet each other, let alone him surprising them since he’ll probably USE that greeting in the next strip now that he knows they’re there…
If they are his parents, they may be picking battles — allowing the snark, while insisting on the Going To Human School. Tehk lost the war. A few parting shots to save face can be ignored with better success than trying to pin down the little eel.
(I never fussed over “talking back” stuff with my kid, so long as said kid wasn’t going into danger or endangering others. And the aforementioned kid certainly doesn’t make a habit of it, so… *big shrug emoji*)
I don’t read it as snarkiness directed at his parents, I read it as directed towards her exact phrasing of the question. It’s much more declarative than interrogative.
Uhhnn, Ms. Affkahni, I don’t wish to start trouble, but isn’t Tehk too advanced for this class? I mean, that this is, nearly if not certainly, College Level Snark.
And so r day to be Teacher’s Lil’ Sunshine, (as Peya Luna pointed out, I feel, correctly). Watch-out, Selkie, you have met the New Overlord, and Dr. Terrorhammer has been outclassed, in class. Roll a 1-D 12 to check for morale.
Honey, it’s don’t makes no differences to mes, Babys, everybodies got a rights to be frees,
And I donts. wants. to. talks like a refugees.
(And I donts. wants. to. talks like a refugees)
Cheap, but so much fun!
With sinceres apologies to Todds Prettys and the Heartsbreakers.
Okay, to be fair? His sarcasm may be justified. What if his parents died in the war, and these are actually his aunt and uncle or some other caretakers who aren’t necessarily his parents? Hopefully Mina has 411 about her new students, but given how fast they were moved into the school it wouldn’t surprise me if she didn’t.
On a similar note, I met a woman at my daughter’s camp who was a teacher during the school year. She told me she taught at a school that took in children of refugees and they helped them learn English and about our culture until they were ready to assimilate into a regular public school. I never knew any programs like that existed, but it makes a lot of sense.
Anyone ever read ‘The Schartz-Metterklume Method’? In the story a young woman who has gotten off the train at the wrong station is met by a man who informs her “You must be the governess!” to which she submits with suspicious meekness, “Well, if I must, I must…” He takes her home and his family becomes quite disoriented over the next few days.
I think that Tehk is not making fun of his poor parents, but rather of the unfortunate phrase that Mina chose.
When I used to show up at parent-teacher meetings, I used to look rather like Tekh’s parents. (Expressions, not complexions!) We ended up going with homeschooling, and when I submitted my yearly curriculum, I would inform the school board that I intended to teach my children using the Schartz-Metterklume Method, and nobody ever asked me what it was or gave even the faintest snigger, so I got away with it.
In fairness,I’d prolly not look into it any further if I were on the board. Some people use the Montessori method, after all. I don’t have a problem with the method itself, but rather its practitioners. a school that doesn’t see an issue with hiring someone with a degree in deaf education to scrub toilets so they can say they have a deaf education specialist on staff needs to sort out its priorities vis-à-vis clinging to their own supposed superiority.
(( Quick rundown for those unfamiliar with Montessori: Mixed-age classrooms, Students choose a lesson from a list of options, roughly three hour blocks per lesson, learn by doing rather than buy being told, and the spaces are built with the age group in mind ))
my, isn´t Tehk a ray of pure sunshine! while his poor parents are standing rather timidly at the side….i´m curious how all three will react to learning that selkie´s parent is a non-fishy person
if it was up to me, I’d just about guarantee that they don’t speak a word of English… Tek could be just like how Truck and his father were… Not that he’s a bully, but his differing mentality when witnessed by parents vs. not seen by parents… such that whenever he’s talking Tensei, he’s the bestest little boy they could want, but get him talking English, and he turns into the sarcastic snarker we see here…
i HOPE they will be pleased that an air-breather like Todd even KNOWS the socially acceptable way that Sarnothi greet each other, let alone him surprising them since he’ll probably USE that greeting in the next strip now that he knows they’re there…
Heeeeyyyyyy. Stop peeking at my outlines. ;P
I like Tehk. <3
I am amused that Tehk has similar levels of snarkiness to Selkie, if with a higher anger level.
Except for the snarkiness directed at his parents. That is less amusing.
If they are his parents, they may be picking battles — allowing the snark, while insisting on the Going To Human School. Tehk lost the war. A few parting shots to save face can be ignored with better success than trying to pin down the little eel.
(I never fussed over “talking back” stuff with my kid, so long as said kid wasn’t going into danger or endangering others. And the aforementioned kid certainly doesn’t make a habit of it, so… *big shrug emoji*)
I don’t read it as snarkiness directed at his parents, I read it as directed towards her exact phrasing of the question. It’s much more declarative than interrogative.
Uhhnn, Ms. Affkahni, I don’t wish to start trouble, but isn’t Tehk too advanced for this class? I mean, that this is, nearly if not certainly, College Level Snark.
And so r day to be Teacher’s Lil’ Sunshine, (as Peya Luna pointed out, I feel, correctly). Watch-out, Selkie, you have met the New Overlord, and Dr. Terrorhammer has been outclassed, in class. Roll a 1-D 12 to check for morale.
Every overlord needs a nemesis.
or worse, they could team up against a common foe….the school wouldn´t be left standing
Honey, it’s don’t makes no differences to mes, Babys, everybodies got a rights to be frees,
And I donts. wants. to. talks like a refugees.
(And I donts. wants. to. talks like a refugees)
Cheap, but so much fun!
With sinceres apologies to Todds Prettys and the Heartsbreakers.
Okay, to be fair? His sarcasm may be justified. What if his parents died in the war, and these are actually his aunt and uncle or some other caretakers who aren’t necessarily his parents? Hopefully Mina has 411 about her new students, but given how fast they were moved into the school it wouldn’t surprise me if she didn’t.
On a similar note, I met a woman at my daughter’s camp who was a teacher during the school year. She told me she taught at a school that took in children of refugees and they helped them learn English and about our culture until they were ready to assimilate into a regular public school. I never knew any programs like that existed, but it makes a lot of sense.
I was going to say the same about Tehk. It’s implied earlier that the “guppies” are war orphans.
They do look somewhat older (especially the lady one), grandparents was my first though too.
I don’t know, I mean, he has the skin tone of the father(?) but the hair color of the mother(?). I’d say its too close to tell yet.
Anyone ever read ‘The Schartz-Metterklume Method’? In the story a young woman who has gotten off the train at the wrong station is met by a man who informs her “You must be the governess!” to which she submits with suspicious meekness, “Well, if I must, I must…” He takes her home and his family becomes quite disoriented over the next few days.
I think that Tehk is not making fun of his poor parents, but rather of the unfortunate phrase that Mina chose.
When I used to show up at parent-teacher meetings, I used to look rather like Tekh’s parents. (Expressions, not complexions!) We ended up going with homeschooling, and when I submitted my yearly curriculum, I would inform the school board that I intended to teach my children using the Schartz-Metterklume Method, and nobody ever asked me what it was or gave even the faintest snigger, so I got away with it.
In fairness,I’d prolly not look into it any further if I were on the board. Some people use the Montessori method, after all. I don’t have a problem with the method itself, but rather its practitioners. a school that doesn’t see an issue with hiring someone with a degree in deaf education to scrub toilets so they can say they have a deaf education specialist on staff needs to sort out its priorities vis-à-vis clinging to their own supposed superiority.
(( Quick rundown for those unfamiliar with Montessori: Mixed-age classrooms, Students choose a lesson from a list of options, roughly three hour blocks per lesson, learn by doing rather than buy being told, and the spaces are built with the age group in mind ))
That’s also how new mayors are chosen in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
Animal Crossing villagers are not the smartest people.
Good heavens, it’s a Sarnothi goth.
I could be remembering wrong, but I believe Dave said that the new kids were all Sar’teri. The “parents” look Tel’dora to me.
Nevermind, I was wrong. The new kids are Tel’dora.
At least Tehk isn’t in denial like Selkie