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The episode where Shawn tries to attend college before finishing high sc

posted 9 years ago by DMoney1184
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I never questioned this show as a kid but as an adult, several years out of college, watching this episode in syndication, this episode makes no sense. You can't just walk into a college classroom and automatically be in that class. What exactly is Shawn's plan here? Yeah, he might be able to fool the prof for a class or two but as soon as the prof (or his grad student teaching assistant) looks to his grade book (or his computer, this series was out at about the time the big computer boom of the 90s came out), he's going to realize there's no "Hunter, Shawn" registered for that class.

Also, Corey calls their senior year their "most important year". All of a student's high school years but it's really the junior year that is the "most important" especially for students applying to college because you apply for admission to college during the fall of your senior year. Junior year grades are the last ones that are on record.

Shawn writes a paper that's "entirely in one sentence"? What exactly have you been doing, Feeney? It's one thing to have a few sentence fragments or run-on sentences but how does a student get to his senior year not knowing how to write a simple paper?

[–] jesse-carrero 9 years ago

LOL I have an associates degree, and my punctuation needs a lot of work. I agree with you about Corey being wrong that senior year is the most important, and the teacher grading test for a student who doesn't even go to the class. Also I'm watching this episode right now, and I saw the episode before it. In the episode before it shawn and corey break up as friends, and at the end shawn tells him he's going to work his hardest to make sure he gets to go to the same college as corey.

[–] deem_bastille 9 years ago

idk about just walking into a college campus. my college was pretty open. we rarely had any asswholes but we had a rapist bum from town come and terrorize the girls in the dorm in the back of the campus.

idk what to tell you about the run-on sentences... I can tell you that teaching writing to children no longer consists of teaching them HOW TO WRITE. no such thing as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, period, comma, question mark. heck, they don't even know to skip a line when there is dialogue.

they write like this:

so then I said 'stop it! stop calling me names!' and johnny said 'no you douchebag!'

but to be honest, the best lessons I learned in writing were not taught to me in class, but by my former secretary mother. I heard through her that you can go two letters past the red end margin line. she also taught me how to hyphen a word when I came to the end margin line. teacher at school, never taught me that.

it also wasn't until college when I learned about commas. when I was in college it was red, white and blue. and we didn't need the comma between the white and blue because the and separated the words for us. now there are commas all over the place!

I now teach writing in my school. I push into classes as a special. but do I teach the basics of writing? no, that is not what my moronic principal wants! she wants volume, not vocabulary. she wants pages of illiterate crap, not something short, wise and to the point.
the curriculum sucks, so please don't tell me it is the classroom teacher's fault for not teaching it. we are overbooked as it is.

Reading the paper can really be depressing. Mr. Dithers fired Dagwood again.