(Doing the temporary half-comic thing again folks, sorry to do this twice in a row. Colors and backgrounds will be completed tonight.)
I recall awhile back, somereader coined the term “adorifying” for moments where Selkie’s behaviors are equal parts adorable and terrifying.
Panel 6 is totes adorifying. XD
Oh, and for those curious, the classmates-slash-background extras sprinting out the door in panel 1 are, from left to right, “Star” Tina and Joe. “Star” being the kid on the seating chart labeled with an asterisk.
This strip is, I believe, the first time Mina's wardrobe has not been monochromatic.
As a teacher and authority figure she should have stopped that, or at least confirmed with her father.
that face… cant look away….
Panel 8: Teacher Sense Tingling!
Oh Selkie…. I can see big problems coming…
I may very well bve the only one…but I totally read Selkies lines in panel 6 with the voice of Lilo from Lilo and Stich…you know the scene where she is trying to be allowed to dance even though she has missbehaved.. though with a lisp of course ^^
I always read her voice in a Lilo type voice!
Someone’s not convinced…
Come on teach…instincts are screaming at you…does her medical file say it’s actually dangerous or that she just doesn’t?
Reminds me of a peanut-allergic kid trying peanuts because they’re tired of their classmates being mad at them that they can’t have peanut butter sandwiches in the classroom…
People being allergic of peanuts can still be around them, they just can’t eat them. Some very intense allergies wouldn’t allow you to touch them either.
There would be no reason why the students couldn’t have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the class room. Next you’ll say if they had diabetic kids in the class room you couldn’t have candy.
I had both in classes from pre-k to 5th grade and never had any issues.
There are people with allergies so severe that even smelling the allergen sets them off. I’m a school nurse – we have a girl who can’t be within smelling range of chocolate – a few feet – without her throat closing up.
Even if it wasn´t that bad, I imagine teachers would want to avoid making the allergic kid feel left out when they are the only one who can´t have any of the stuff the other kids enjoy.
Schools are paranoid about lawsuits so a lot of them have banned any form of nuts.nut butters. And I know a few classrooms that have banned sweets because of diabetic kids.
My daughter had a classmate that was so allergic to peanuts that he had reactions to peanut butter residue. PB&J was still allowed–those with peanuts ate at a separate table in the lunchroom, and had to wash their hands and rinse their mouths (he had reactions to peanut breath, as well). The only place open peanut containers were banned was their actual classroom.
I’ve heard of schools going so far as to (controversially) ban students from consuming nuts at home on school nights, on the grounds that they could have the protein on their breath and trigger an attack.
I’m of mixed feelings about that. I can appreciate how the majority of the student’s families would not want their right to eat what they choose in the privacy of their own homes impacted, but I am equally sure that if a student in the school is so sensitive to nuts that even a whiff of peanut breath can trigger them, they probably appreciate being able to breathe reliably.
It probably just says that she doesn’t – but even if it does say that there are health reasons for her not going outside during the winter, the teacher might not recall that off the top of her head.
The teacher clearly doesn’t actually believe her, though – or at least has her suspicions. She may be about to go and check if Selkie actually did get permission to go out during recess.
We can only hope Selkie learns something from this.
Well, if it’s getting all a little too much for you, go back to two days a week for awhile. I think we can all take it. I know I can, though I’ll miss the extra strip from time to time…
It’s not that it’s getting too much for me. Just had an off week. I’d like to keep the three-a-week strips up as much as possible. I like the faster pacing.
So do we.
Seconded.
Did you mean from right to Left instead of left to right? I assume Joe has the Glasses, and * has the Blue earmuffs.
Viewer-left to Viewer-right. “Star” has the glasses and Joe has the foofy brown hair and earmuffs.