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This movie got ME through Summer school

posted 19 years ago by Fluke_Skywalker
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I did a Ferris Bueller during my Freshman year of High school and missed the maximum amount of days possible each semester. In the end, I failed Science and had to take it Summer school (Summer of 1989 - The year of Batman!). I was DREADING it, as you can imagine. Getting up early, hanging out for 2 hours a day in a hot, stuffy classroom with 20-30 (Other?) degenerates.

Luckily, I saw this on the shelves at my local Videotown about a week or so before Summer school began (Which, BTW, was the Monday following the last day of school. Ugh!). I loved it, and it put me in a better frame of mind to deal with actual Summer school.

In the end, Summer school was one of those things I hated at the time, but all these years later I have some fond memories of the experience and I couldn't have done it without this movie... OK, I could've done it, but it would've been much harder.

Anyone else have any actual Summer school memories?

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[–] LadyDi4476 19 years ago

I agree, I used to watch this movie while I attended summer school as well. It wasn't nearly as fun but I did end up enjoying. I failed history in both my Sophomore and Junior year. Then I actually went to summer school on purpose in college to make up some more credit. Overall I have had good experiences with summer school. It's a different environment than during a regular school semester and for that I enjoyed it.

Now I'm out of school but I still watch this movie a few times a summer because it represents what summer is all about. I still love it.

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[–] Dan_Garten 18 years ago

I went to summer school twice in my life. The first one was in 1991. I hated it, mainly because the teacher was so mean. And the other, was 1994. I actually liked it this time. I can't put my finger on why, exactly, though.

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[–] Fluke_Skywalker 18 years ago

There's nothing quite like the smell of 30 tired slackers on an 90 degree morning to inspire academic excellence!

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[–] dingbat977 18 years ago

I loved the movie Summer School, but the movie never popped into my head the year I went into summer school. I was more embarrassed that I was there, because I passed to the 7th grade. My mom was the one who wanted to get me more ready for Junior High. It just left me feeling stupid that summer.

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[–] Pinkmaltese1 16 years ago

Ahh yeah. I took summer school in 9th grade, because I had been absent quite a number over my schools absent limit (18 days). I was feeling really depressed that I had to go to summer school, so my friend suggested the movie to me to cheer me up. It was ADORABLE, I just loved it. So funny! Then when I finally got to summer school, it was a RIOT. We had a teacher who was EXACTLY like freddy shoop was in the beginning of the movie, letting us do anything, taking us on fieldtrips, etc. It was just glorious.

There were a couple of moments that were bad, like the boys room next door overflowing and leaking through the wall of our room, one kid breaking the window of a car that was below because he was throwing tennis balls at the parked cars, and this one kid cut himself with a razor in front of the whole class, which was disturbing.

Summer School is definitely a favorite movie of mine, because it got me through all the nonsense that went on during actual summer school.

[–] woopwoo17 15 years ago

I went to summer school for my literature class in middle school. I ended up having a lot of fun. The teacher was funny and a really nice guy, we had scrabble competitions (one in which I won a tiny purple cow) and I developed a love for reading (we read The Giver and at the time I thought it was amazing).

Also, what I like to call a movie moment happened. You know, a moment in your life that you thought could only happen in the movies. I remember it very clearly.

Teacher: Reggie, you've been talking the whole time we've been discussing this. Since you have so much to say, what do you know about War and Peace?

Reggie: *crosses arms in defiance* I don't know any Warren Peace. I don't know nothing about him, neither.

Laughter ensues.

It was perfect, as if it had been written.

[–] jefgg 10 years ago

My bro had to attend summer school because he cut too many classes. Our friends used to get together almost every night back then. And every night he said he hated summer school. Most of the other students were chain smoking burnouts. My bro didn't smoke ... Marlboros. Summer school must suck. But it sure beats getting left back. When I was a kid I heard all the summer school teachers were old and really mean.

[–] lantzn 9 years ago

My sister and I were a year apart and we lived in CA. She being older started school first at 5 yr. old. When summer arrived we moved to TX because my mom remarried. In the fall when my mom took me in to start school they wouldn't let me because the age was 6 yr. old in that state. I was always irritated that she was 2 years ahead of me and she would tell her friends I flunked a grade. We didn't get along.
By high school (9th-12th grades) in the late 70s we were back in CA (San Diego) and I got stoned a lot and went to all the parties. For whatever reason I still made good grades, rarely studied, but had good memory attention, so I passed the tests. I found out in 8 grade if I took summer school for 3 years I could graduate my junior year. I got to take all the fun classes, drivers Ed, metal shop, wood shop, auto repair, etc.. All my fellow stoner friends just laughed at me every summer. They stopped laughing when at the end of our junior year during senior graduation I showed up in cap and gown for my diploma. It was 1977 and I partied harder then I ever had that summer.