The winter session is stricter than the summer session. The teachers are different during the winter session, and coincidentally are stricter. In the beginning of the book, during the summer session, Mr. Patch-Withers laughed at Phineas’ story of his belt mix up and jumping out of the tree. In the winter session teachers don’t tolerate any behavior of any sort. After Gene fell into the river Mr. Ludsbury was not sympathetic, just angry that he was fooling around. Mr. Ludsbury even goes to shame Gene by being disappointed. Having someone be angry with you is annoying, but having someone be disappointed in you is humiliating.
“I think you have slipped in any number of ways since last year”
The boys don’t let it affect them for the most part, except for this instance and maybe one or two others because no one can be completely passive. The strictness of the school is definitely at a higher level. The winter session is also going to be awkward because Phineas is in denial about Gene pushing him off the ledge and not even they know where they stand as friends. The situation between Phineas and Gene looks like it might heat up even more soon, which will not make the winter term at Devon any better. The tone of the winter session is going to be tense.
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