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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 14:42:23 GMT
Rewatching random episodes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers I never realized how fascinating the education system of Angel Grove High School is (weird enough that there only seems to be one high school in a metropolitan city)
For starters the basic school structure seems to emulate Elementary schools, with students having only one teacher for their academic subjects. I mean seriously what subject was Miss Appleby suppose to be teaching? She gives them a history lesson about television so maybe History but then she has a hobby week (which is unusual for a high school classroom but I digress) and a write an essay about what you would like to change about yourself.
Then apparently getting an F on a test qualifies for detention.Somehow. Maybe Principle Kaplan just really hates Bulk and Skull and needed another excuse to give them a detention.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 14:43:36 GMT
Back in my high school years I myself had a few teachers who would teach different subjects each period of the school day.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 14:44:30 GMT
F's a fail, so maybe the detention is extra study time. And PR isn't the only one. I'm sure it's happened to Bart in The Simpsons.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 14:44:33 GMT
Ms Appleby has also taught both English and Maths. She's a jack of all trades it seems. There seems to only be three teachers at that school - Caplan, Appleby, and that teacher Rocky switched places with once in season 3.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 14:47:35 GMT
Rewatching random episodes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers I never realized how fascinating the education system of Angel Grove High School is (weird enough that there only seems to be one high school in a metropolitan city) For starters the basic school structure seems to emulate Elementary schools, with students having only one teacher for their academic subjects. I mean seriously what subject was Miss Appleby suppose to be teaching? She gives them a history lesson about television so maybe History but then she has a hobby week (which is unusual for a high school classroom but I digress) and a write an essay about what you would like to change about yourself. Then apparently getting an F on a test qualifies for detention.Somehow. Maybe Principle Kaplan just really hates Bulk and Skull and needed another excuse to give them a detention. Bulk and Skull actually did do a lot of stuff to get them in detention. For example, in "Football Season", Bulk tackled Mr. Caplan in the hallway. Unintentional, yes, but it still warranted disciplinary action.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 14:48:05 GMT
PR's idea of high school has SHOW AND TELL, for god's sake. If that isn't a sports-oriented curriculum, I don't know what is. AGHS is fascinating for that reason above all else: it's organized how a small child would imagine high school works and nothing at all like how it actually does. Bullies aside, there are no apparent CLIQUES nor any real school activities or identities. Just peer groups.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 14:59:55 GMT
and everyone gets along just like in Kindergarten! Man I love Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Universe.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 15:00:41 GMT
You mean that's not how real high school works? I went to a private school so I wouldn't know.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 15:01:12 GMT
You mean that's not how real high school works? I went to a private school so I wouldn't know. No. Dino Thunder has a closer idea of how high school works except sanitized to fit the G rating. Well really Dino Thunder confirms to the same concept most tv shows have of high school. MMPR is in it's own little world where high school is even more simplified than it is in most tv shows
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 15:01:53 GMT
Appleby could be the history teacher and we just haven't seen their other teachers. In the school system where I live, it's not uncommon to see a teacher teach both history and language arts/english, and then other teachers teach both math and science. So Appleby might fit the bill for a history-language arts teacher.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 15:02:35 GMT
history-language art teachers don't usually have hobby weeks
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 15:04:18 GMT
Angel Grove lacks quality education. At least...that's the phrase commonly used among LJ-based PR fans. It's often bandied about as a joke, but the more you look at it, the more truth there is to it.
Seriously. With some of the ridiculous things that one sees taking place in the high school, as well as how many school functions appear to take place at the youth center instead of the school itself (surely I'm not the only one who's noticed this?) and how there seems to be only a small handful of teachers to go around, it's clear the funding is utterly dismal for what you'd think, for all intents and purposes, would be a pretty large school in a relatively large city. And this is coming from someone who went to high school at around the same time early PR was on in a school with about 1,000 students tops in a town of only about 7-8,000 and somehow managed to have plenty of teachers on hand while still managing plenty of sports teams and other extracurricular activities. It's true...it operates how little kids think high school operates, but not how it actually is in the real world. I know that many things have to be sanitised for the sake of broadcast standards, but even then, it makes me wonder how quickly the writers had forgotten their own high school lives that it's portrayed so unrealistically.
And if not shoddy funding, with the way the curriculum in AGHS is often so...juvenile, it's almost no wonder the Rangers are all at the top of their class! They seem to be the only ones attending the school who are capable of anything above elementary school-level education that of course they're all going to pass all their classes with flying colors. Poor Billy must've been bored out of his mind in so many of his classes that he was probably relieved to graduate early.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 15:05:23 GMT
I just love the lesson Ms. Appleby was having on question marks... in high school. Yeah.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 15:06:32 GMT
I just love the lesson Ms. Appleby was having on question marks... in high school. Yeah. Which episode was that again? I know it happened so I'm not questioning your validity I just forgot the episode
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Oct 22, 2014 15:06:52 GMT
I just remember it saying it on the blackboard what the topic of the day was. I don't remember which episode it was.
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