The real deal is we have chemicals in our brain that determine when we are awake. For older people this means early in the morning and for teens it means asleep in the morning, awake for lunch, tired at the end of school, and awake at night- charged at midnight and hyper until late in the morning. So asking them to do say Math tests at 8 in the morning is asking them to have a much harder time getting the stuff right. So the real thing to ask is why are the old farts asleep at 11 at night- what a bunch of wussies. They get up to read the paper- man what a joke.
Panel 4 reminds me of a joke from a book we had as kids:
Q: What's the hardest job in the world?
A: Wheeling West Virginia.
Illustration was a guy with the whole darn state in a wheelbarrow.
"hard to move" = Gunther's shirts to goodwill; he will wear them even in his casket, and he wore it as a baby as shown here http://photos.krisandjamest.com/images/A_9/5/3/9/9359/IMG_1786_f21c6.Large.jpg ;)
