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* If there was a real case of abuse with one of the parents, the school wouldn't believe it because of how they normally are.
!!Fridge Logic
* What type of School hires someone without a background check? For all they knew, Dewey could have been a legitimate sexual predator.
** He was pretending to be his roommate, Ned Schneebly. Presumably they ''did'' do a background check on Ned or he was in some sort of database after already passing a background check. And they called the number on file and reached who they thought was Ned. The only odd thing is that they didn't ask to see a valid ID before giving him access to the kids.
** Ms Mullins is extremely stressed out and they called Ned from a phone number on his resume or whatever, so that was probably good enough for her, and she was just relieved they could bring someone in that day.
** If you call someone named Ned and someone named Ned shows up in the middle of the day, that's going to be good enough. Dewey gave off a lot of red flags, and that's what makes this hard to believe, but letting the dude walk in, sign some forms, and get to work is itself believable. How likely is it for someone to commit identity theft in order to be ''a substitute teacher''?
* They should have been disqualified for lying about their illness to get into battle of the bands.
** Well the judge was being a {{Jerkass}} for denying them an audition just because one of the children ran off and had to be found.
* Shouldn't Mullins have been suspicious that someone on the phone was asking all those questions?
** Dewey first said that Ned wasn't there, so she assumed he was asking questions to pass on the information to Ned.
** On a similar note, when Dewey answered the original phone call from Ms Mullins he was speaking in his voice until "Ned" came back and he put on a fake deep voice with a bit of an accent to pretend to be Ned. Assuming he kept the same voice for the rest of the call, you'd think Mullins would have noticed that "Ned" sounds nothing like he did on the phone...but he does sound an awful lot like the person who answered the first phone call?
* You'd think that a school with such a "strict code of conduct" would at least have the decency to do a background check/ check credentials of the suspicious person that was hired.
** They would have...on Ned Schneebly. As mentioned above, the bigger mistake was that somehow nobody checked Dewey's ID on his first day or that there was a photo of Ned anywhere when they did the background check that could have confirmed they weren't the same person.
* How did no one notice the children out playing all day?
** When they went to the audition? Some of the children stayed behind to help cover it up with a pre-recorded video.
** And that likely would not have been an all day thing. Maybe a couple of hours at most.
* If Dewey can hear the classical music through the floor, shouldn't the whole school be able to hear their rock music? Granted, they soundproofed the room, but there was only so much they could do.
** Someone ''did'' hear the music, and Dewey had to improvise a musical math lesson.
* The kids are smart. Would they really have believed the whole class project story?
** Freddy in particular still views the whole thing as "a three week vacation" after the jig is up, so they possibly wouldn't voice any concerns.
* Shouldn't the parents be suspicious that their kids suddenly don't have any homework when a new substitute arrives?
** They were suspicious. That's why they were asking at parents' night.
* Are parents forbidden from contacting the teachers/principal at this school? It seems that most of what the parents were upset about at parent's night are things that they would have called the teacher/principal to complain about.
** Prestigious schools are usually attended by the children of upper middle class or outright wealthy parents. Meaning the parents are likely white collar workers with all sorts of responsibilities while their kids are at school, and don't want to keep the stress going into the evening by making calls or arranging meetings when there's a parents' night in literally a couple of weeks when they can air all their grievances.
* Any of the parents or staff could have seen the posters Dewey put up and immediately become suspicious.
** Mullins mentions that she's never been to the part of town where the bar Dewey takes her is. Dewey/Ned's apartment looks like it's in an inner city area, it may be fair to assume that not many Horace Green teachers/parents live in that part of town. Or even if they did, they just aren't paying attention to telephone pole posters.
** And the parents might not have even seen Dewey until parents' night. So by then the posters might have been taken down (he's found his band after all).
** As someone who's taught at a private school, I rarely had contact with parents unless they had immediate, serious concerns (my daughter doesn't get a B), and even then only at big functions. I never ran into them outside of school, and I lived in a small enough town that I ''did'' meet someone who was the neighbor of one of the students I didn't teach (different grade). For upscale New Yorkers not to recognize an almost-broke Dewey is the most believable part of the film to me.
!!Fridge Logic
* What type of School hires someone without a background check? For all they knew, Dewey could have been a legitimate sexual predator.
** He was pretending to be his roommate, Ned Schneebly. Presumably they ''did'' do a background check on Ned or he was in some sort of database after already passing a background check. And they called the number on file and reached who they thought was Ned. The only odd thing is that they didn't ask to see a valid ID before giving him access to the kids.
** Ms Mullins is extremely stressed out and they called Ned from a phone number on his resume or whatever, so that was probably good enough for her, and she was just relieved they could bring someone in that day.
** If you call someone named Ned and someone named Ned shows up in the middle of the day, that's going to be good enough. Dewey gave off a lot of red flags, and that's what makes this hard to believe, but letting the dude walk in, sign some forms, and get to work is itself believable. How likely is it for someone to commit identity theft in order to be ''a substitute teacher''?
* They should have been disqualified for lying about their illness to get into battle of the bands.
** Well the judge was being a {{Jerkass}} for denying them an audition just because one of the children ran off and had to be found.
* Shouldn't Mullins have been suspicious that someone on the phone was asking all those questions?
** Dewey first said that Ned wasn't there, so she assumed he was asking questions to pass on the information to Ned.
** On a similar note, when Dewey answered the original phone call from Ms Mullins he was speaking in his voice until "Ned" came back and he put on a fake deep voice with a bit of an accent to pretend to be Ned. Assuming he kept the same voice for the rest of the call, you'd think Mullins would have noticed that "Ned" sounds nothing like he did on the phone...but he does sound an awful lot like the person who answered the first phone call?
* You'd think that a school with such a "strict code of conduct" would at least have the decency to do a background check/ check credentials of the suspicious person that was hired.
** They would have...on Ned Schneebly. As mentioned above, the bigger mistake was that somehow nobody checked Dewey's ID on his first day or that there was a photo of Ned anywhere when they did the background check that could have confirmed they weren't the same person.
* How did no one notice the children out playing all day?
** When they went to the audition? Some of the children stayed behind to help cover it up with a pre-recorded video.
** And that likely would not have been an all day thing. Maybe a couple of hours at most.
* If Dewey can hear the classical music through the floor, shouldn't the whole school be able to hear their rock music? Granted, they soundproofed the room, but there was only so much they could do.
** Someone ''did'' hear the music, and Dewey had to improvise a musical math lesson.
* The kids are smart. Would they really have believed the whole class project story?
** Freddy in particular still views the whole thing as "a three week vacation" after the jig is up, so they possibly wouldn't voice any concerns.
* Shouldn't the parents be suspicious that their kids suddenly don't have any homework when a new substitute arrives?
** They were suspicious. That's why they were asking at parents' night.
* Are parents forbidden from contacting the teachers/principal at this school? It seems that most of what the parents were upset about at parent's night are things that they would have called the teacher/principal to complain about.
** Prestigious schools are usually attended by the children of upper middle class or outright wealthy parents. Meaning the parents are likely white collar workers with all sorts of responsibilities while their kids are at school, and don't want to keep the stress going into the evening by making calls or arranging meetings when there's a parents' night in literally a couple of weeks when they can air all their grievances.
* Any of the parents or staff could have seen the posters Dewey put up and immediately become suspicious.
** Mullins mentions that she's never been to the part of town where the bar Dewey takes her is. Dewey/Ned's apartment looks like it's in an inner city area, it may be fair to assume that not many Horace Green teachers/parents live in that part of town. Or even if they did, they just aren't paying attention to telephone pole posters.
** And the parents might not have even seen Dewey until parents' night. So by then the posters might have been taken down (he's found his band after all).
** As someone who's taught at a private school, I rarely had contact with parents unless they had immediate, serious concerns (my daughter doesn't get a B), and even then only at big functions. I never ran into them outside of school, and I lived in a small enough town that I ''did'' meet someone who was the neighbor of one of the students I didn't teach (different grade). For upscale New Yorkers not to recognize an almost-broke Dewey is the most believable part of the film to me.
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* If there was a real case of abuse with one of the parents, the school wouldn't believe it because of how they normally are.
!!Fridge Logic
* What type of School hires someone without a background check? For all they knew, Dewey could have been a legitimate sexual predator.
** He was pretending to be his roommate, Ned Schneebly. Presumably they ''did'' do a background check on Ned or he was in some sort of database after already passing a background check. And they called the number on file and reached who they thought was Ned. The only odd thing is that they didn't ask to see a valid ID before giving him access to the kids.
** Ms Mullins is extremely stressed out and they called Ned from a phone number on his resume or whatever, so that was probably good enough for her, and she was just relieved they could bring someone in that day.
** If you call someone named Ned and someone named Ned shows up in the middle of the day, that's going to be good enough. Dewey gave off a lot of red flags, and that's what makes this hard to believe, but letting the dude walk in, sign some forms, and get to work is itself believable. How likely is it for someone to commit identity theft in order to be ''a substitute teacher''?
* They should have been disqualified for lying about their illness to get into battle of the bands.
** Well the judge was being a {{Jerkass}} for denying them an audition just because one of the children ran off and had to be found.
* Shouldn't Mullins have been suspicious that someone on the phone was asking all those questions?
** Dewey first said that Ned wasn't there, so she assumed he was asking questions to pass on the information to Ned.
** On a similar note, when Dewey answered the original phone call from Ms Mullins he was speaking in his voice until "Ned" came back and he put on a fake deep voice with a bit of an accent to pretend to be Ned. Assuming he kept the same voice for the rest of the call, you'd think Mullins would have noticed that "Ned" sounds nothing like he did on the phone...but he does sound an awful lot like the person who answered the first phone call?
* You'd think that a school with such a "strict code of conduct" would at least have the decency to do a background check/ check credentials of the suspicious person that was hired.
** They would have...on Ned Schneebly. As mentioned above, the bigger mistake was that somehow nobody checked Dewey's ID on his first day or that there was a photo of Ned anywhere when they did the background check that could have confirmed they weren't the same person.
* How did no one notice the children out playing all day?
** When they went to the audition? Some of the children stayed behind to help cover it up with a pre-recorded video.
** And that likely would not have been an all day thing. Maybe a couple of hours at most.
* If Dewey can hear the classical music through the floor, shouldn't the whole school be able to hear their rock music? Granted, they soundproofed the room, but there was only so much they could do.
** Someone ''did'' hear the music, and Dewey had to improvise a musical math lesson.
* The kids are smart. Would they really have believed the whole class project story?
** Freddy in particular still views the whole thing as "a three week vacation" after the jig is up, so they possibly wouldn't voice any concerns.
* Shouldn't the parents be suspicious that their kids suddenly don't have any homework when a new substitute arrives?
** They were suspicious. That's why they were asking at parents' night.
* Are parents forbidden from contacting the teachers/principal at this school? It seems that most of what the parents were upset about at parent's night are things that they would have called the teacher/principal to complain about.
** Prestigious schools are usually attended by the children of upper middle class or outright wealthy parents. Meaning the parents are likely white collar workers with all sorts of responsibilities while their kids are at school, and don't want to keep the stress going into the evening by making calls or arranging meetings when there's a parents' night in literally a couple of weeks when they can air all their grievances.
* Any of the parents or staff could have seen the posters Dewey put up and immediately become suspicious.
** Mullins mentions that she's never been to the part of town where the bar Dewey takes her is. Dewey/Ned's apartment looks like it's in an inner city area, it may be fair to assume that not many Horace Green teachers/parents live in that part of town. Or even if they did, they just aren't paying attention to telephone pole posters.
** And the parents might not have even seen Dewey until parents' night. So by then the posters might have been taken down (he's found his band after all).
** As someone who's taught at a private school, I rarely had contact with parents unless they had immediate, serious concerns (my daughter doesn't get a B), and even then only at big functions. I never ran into them outside of school, and I lived in a small enough town that I ''did'' meet someone who was the neighbor of one of the students I didn't teach (different grade). For upscale New Yorkers not to recognize an almost-broke Dewey is the most believable part of the film to me.are.
!!Fridge Logic
* What type of School hires someone without a background check? For all they knew, Dewey could have been a legitimate sexual predator.
** He was pretending to be his roommate, Ned Schneebly. Presumably they ''did'' do a background check on Ned or he was in some sort of database after already passing a background check. And they called the number on file and reached who they thought was Ned. The only odd thing is that they didn't ask to see a valid ID before giving him access to the kids.
** Ms Mullins is extremely stressed out and they called Ned from a phone number on his resume or whatever, so that was probably good enough for her, and she was just relieved they could bring someone in that day.
** If you call someone named Ned and someone named Ned shows up in the middle of the day, that's going to be good enough. Dewey gave off a lot of red flags, and that's what makes this hard to believe, but letting the dude walk in, sign some forms, and get to work is itself believable. How likely is it for someone to commit identity theft in order to be ''a substitute teacher''?
* They should have been disqualified for lying about their illness to get into battle of the bands.
** Well the judge was being a {{Jerkass}} for denying them an audition just because one of the children ran off and had to be found.
* Shouldn't Mullins have been suspicious that someone on the phone was asking all those questions?
** Dewey first said that Ned wasn't there, so she assumed he was asking questions to pass on the information to Ned.
** On a similar note, when Dewey answered the original phone call from Ms Mullins he was speaking in his voice until "Ned" came back and he put on a fake deep voice with a bit of an accent to pretend to be Ned. Assuming he kept the same voice for the rest of the call, you'd think Mullins would have noticed that "Ned" sounds nothing like he did on the phone...but he does sound an awful lot like the person who answered the first phone call?
* You'd think that a school with such a "strict code of conduct" would at least have the decency to do a background check/ check credentials of the suspicious person that was hired.
** They would have...on Ned Schneebly. As mentioned above, the bigger mistake was that somehow nobody checked Dewey's ID on his first day or that there was a photo of Ned anywhere when they did the background check that could have confirmed they weren't the same person.
* How did no one notice the children out playing all day?
** When they went to the audition? Some of the children stayed behind to help cover it up with a pre-recorded video.
** And that likely would not have been an all day thing. Maybe a couple of hours at most.
* If Dewey can hear the classical music through the floor, shouldn't the whole school be able to hear their rock music? Granted, they soundproofed the room, but there was only so much they could do.
** Someone ''did'' hear the music, and Dewey had to improvise a musical math lesson.
* The kids are smart. Would they really have believed the whole class project story?
** Freddy in particular still views the whole thing as "a three week vacation" after the jig is up, so they possibly wouldn't voice any concerns.
* Shouldn't the parents be suspicious that their kids suddenly don't have any homework when a new substitute arrives?
** They were suspicious. That's why they were asking at parents' night.
* Are parents forbidden from contacting the teachers/principal at this school? It seems that most of what the parents were upset about at parent's night are things that they would have called the teacher/principal to complain about.
** Prestigious schools are usually attended by the children of upper middle class or outright wealthy parents. Meaning the parents are likely white collar workers with all sorts of responsibilities while their kids are at school, and don't want to keep the stress going into the evening by making calls or arranging meetings when there's a parents' night in literally a couple of weeks when they can air all their grievances.
* Any of the parents or staff could have seen the posters Dewey put up and immediately become suspicious.
** Mullins mentions that she's never been to the part of town where the bar Dewey takes her is. Dewey/Ned's apartment looks like it's in an inner city area, it may be fair to assume that not many Horace Green teachers/parents live in that part of town. Or even if they did, they just aren't paying attention to telephone pole posters.
** And the parents might not have even seen Dewey until parents' night. So by then the posters might have been taken down (he's found his band after all).
** As someone who's taught at a private school, I rarely had contact with parents unless they had immediate, serious concerns (my daughter doesn't get a B), and even then only at big functions. I never ran into them outside of school, and I lived in a small enough town that I ''did'' meet someone who was the neighbor of one of the students I didn't teach (different grade). For upscale New Yorkers not to recognize an almost-broke Dewey is the most believable part of the film to me.
