Miss Othmar News Today

Were you a fan of The Peanuts movie? Read here to find out what your favorite cast members are up to today.

Education World takes a closer look at some of TV’s most loved teachers, and measures them against the Rubric for Effective Teaching and the teacher Code of Ethics. You’ll be surprised by what we found.

In a popular Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown muses about how much their teacher, Miss Othmar, is paid. Linus, indignant, shouts, “PAID?” and pronounces the idea she accepts money for teaching as outrageous. His favorite teacher appr...

A collection of random thoughts and comments from the Journal-Courier’s afternoon...

The curators say the strips, three of which were acquired from a private collector last year and will be on show for the first time, are “a rare opportunity to see characters differing from the beloved Peanuts Gang”. But some similarities are clear. Irascible, overbearing and loud, the storeroom manager Ms Hamhock could easily be Charlie Brown’s nemesis, Lucy van Pelt, grown up. And it is not difficult to see Elmer Hagemayer, a meek and compliant worker whose cheerfulness and opt...