Gary Larson
Gary Larson
Gary Larsonis an American cartoonist. He is the creator of The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to over 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. The series ended with Larson's retirement on January 1, 1995. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth14 August 1950
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
We are going to fight this thing all the way. The district is breaking the law and it's breaking its word to treat students who attend charter schools fairly.
When a charter school opens up, typically they are inundated with parents who wish to enroll their kids as well as with applications from public school teachers who wish to teach there, ... They have a tendency to grow very fast.
No one knows what the public school system is going to look like in 10 or 20Êyears, but we know it's moving toward being more innovative, more cutting edge or more designed to meeting the needs of individual students.
No one knows what the public school system is going to look like in 10 or 20Â years, but we know it's moving toward being more innovative, more cutting edge or more designed to meeting the needs of individual students.
You're seeing a shift within the charter school movement. The first 10 years were about creating choices for parents. The second decade is a focus on identifying successful models and replicating them as quickly as possible.
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.
Its clear that as long as this demand continues, then charter schools will continue to thrive,
Just be careful how you put it back down, or you can wipe out a population the size of Manhattan.
Suddenly, two bystanders stuck their heads inside the frame and ruined one of the funniest cartoons ever.
I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.