Comic interlude: Son 1's progress report

It's nothing to do with all the serious, depressing shit I've been writing about lately, but we got Son 1's first month progress report from his Junior year at Hogwarts.  His grades are awful.  Just catastrophic.  I mean, his teachers all comment that he's bright and contributes really well in class ... but then they add that he doesn't turn in his homework, doesn't come in after class to clear up things he hasn't gotten, doesn't do that well on tests.  Ugh.  This weekend is Parent's Day, and we'll be down there anyway.  We are going to meet with his advisor about it.

And then I opened the comics page of today's newspaper and saw the following cartoon.  The age is wrong -- Son 1 is sixteen -- but it captures the spirit of the situation just perfectly.