Lennie: Shampoo because you don’t really need conditioner. On Which is Better, Shampoo or Conditioner? Pete: I like the animal, but I hate the hockey team. I wish we’d do a better job of protecting our wildlife. You can just pull out a phone and Google something. There’s a lot less studying because information recall isn’t really a thing anymore. The way I prepared for tests is very different than today. They’re all on a device during study times, and you don’t know if they’re studying on that device or looking up cat pictures.
Pete: Honestly, a lot of kids don’t prepare for tests at all anymore. But all the baking and stuff like that in the movie, I don’t know.
Pam: Sometimes when preparing for a test we do a Jeopardy game for the kids to review. You might not know exactly what they’re going to ask, but it’ll give you an idea. Lennie: I would tell a kid to look at old questions on Jeopardy to prepare for that. On How Best to Prepare for an Academic Decathlon In real life now, though, a kid would get really bullied and ostracized for peeing their pants.
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It was a fairly forward-thinking idea for a movie lacking in forward-thinking ideas. Pete: I think it was cool in the movie how it was represented. Kids are supposed to be potty-trained before kindergarten. Accidents are one thing, but if it happened more than once, that would be another reason to have a kid checked out. Actually, now, for the kids who actually do know cursive, we tell them not to write that way because their handwriting is so terrible that we can’t read it. Some older teachers feel that it’s important, but there’s more of a push now for technology and typing. In our school, they do it at the end of third grade after all the state tests and only if they have time. Pam: Some schools still teach cursive, usually it’s in third grade. On Whether Cursive Is Still Taught in School Lennie: At the high school level, I’d send them to counseling. You need documentation for any kind of chemical for anything in a classroom now. In the movie, it looked like home brew, which isn’t allowed anymore. Back then, you might have to send them to poison control depending upon what type of glue that was. Pete: You send them to the nurse’s office now. In those cases, I’ve just called them out on it. Pam: Believe it or not, I’ve never had to deal with that, but I’ve had kids eat other things, like things off the floor that clearly don’t belong in their mouth. On What Grade Level a Kid Should Be Able to Spell “Rock” I mean, for a man his age who’s doing it as a refresher, that might work fine, but not for an actual kid. Pete, school administrator and former teacher: No, you can’t get through anything in two weeks. Parents who are having to homeschool their kids right now are finding that there’s a lot of shit they don’t remember, and I don’t think two weeks would be enough to put it back in their heads. As an adult, going back to review sixth grade science might be okay, but there’s a lot of material. Lennie, assistant principal and former teacher: No. Especially a random two weeks in the school year like in the movie - I don’t know how much anyone would get out of that. When we usually go back in September, the real teaching of new material doesn’t even start until October. It takes a good month to get used to anything in school. On Whether Billy Could Learn Anything With Just Two Weeks of Each Grade So, here’s what they said (best get reading before that bad ol’ penguin shows up). Regardless, I managed to find three of them willing to let me waste their time with questions about Adam Sandler ’s back-to-school classic - questions like, “Is two weeks of each grade really enough to learn anything?” and “How would someone best prepare for an academic decathlon?” I also wanted to ask them about the film’s more existential questions, like “Which is better, shampoo or conditioner?” and if they prefer a banana or a Snack Pack. As educators approach the most complex back-to-school season in generations, surely they have better things to do than discuss a 25-year-old Adam Sandler film.
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