Bad Girls Blooper?

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Explain this, its always bugged me when watching it.

When Buffy is told off in class for telling Willow and Xander what she got up to with Fath during a test, how come when Faith appears at the Window and Buffy noisely climbs out does the teacher not even bat an eyelid?!
Oh too much time on my hands but STILL..........
 
As I understood it this test was based on trust so the teacher left the room. Didn't she say something like that?
Here from the transcript:

Mrs. Taggart: Alright. You have one period to fill out your test
booklets. Periodic charts are located on the back. (walks toward the
front) You're on the honor system, so remember, no talking.
 
I never got that either. Sure, the teacher might have been gone, but even the students...At least one of them would have noticed and thought it odd; a teacher would have been notified in real circumstances, right? It was always rather odd to me.
 
Well, not really. If it were my classmate that did this I would be all 'screw them' and mind my own business. Anyone who would go to the teacher in a situation like this would become veeery unpopular among the other students in no time.
 
Well, there's that :lmao:
But I'm sure you'd notice someone climbing out of a window..?
 
If my classmates had done this when I was in school, I'd be holding the window open for them and helping them! lol

On a serious note, if they were on the honor system, I think the teacher would have left the room. That's how they did it when I was in school.

And on that note, how the heck did Buffy and Xander get on the honor role?
 
I would have noticed if someone climbed out a window! But yeah the honours system meaning the teacher would have left the room by that time makes sense.
 
the honor system is basically an understanding between students and teachers that says that they don't have to watch them all the time while they're taking a test or something, that they trust them not to cheat. in my high school, we had an "honor code" and we had to write "pledge" at the top of every assignment promising we hadn't cheated. but they still watched us like hawks haha. it was a very strict school.

i always wondered why no one said anything when buffy climbed out, but then i thought that if that had happened when i was in high school, there would kind of have been an understanding that students wouldn't give other students away.
 
Buffy obsessed fan said:
I never got that either. Sure, the teacher might have been gone, but even the students...At least one of them would have noticed and thought it odd; a teacher would have been notified in real circumstances, right? It was always rather odd to me.
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In a school where there has been a student found dead and drained of blood in the girls' locker room, the principal has been devoured by a gang of students who thought at the time that they were hyenas, a male South American exchange student turns out to really be a mummified Aztec princess, a substitute teacher is actually a giant bug, a cheerleader bursts into flames during tryouts, and the entire swim team turn into fish men and eat their coach, a girl climbing out of a window in the middle of Chem Class must have seemed downright mundane.

(How's that for a run on sentence?)
 
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If it was my freind I'd be helping them too XD. Hell I'd do it myself 😀.

I guess that's what you get for being obsessed with Faith. Kick ass 'tude. 😉
 
In schools that have an "honor code", the teachers are not required to proctor a test. At the same time, the students agree not to cheat, and to report anyone they see cheating. If they don't, in a lot of cases (and in universities where the honor system is installed) the student can be expelled. That second bit is really what is supposed to deter the students from cheating..because you don't know who else in the room is taking the honor code seriously and will report you.

So of course, cheating runs rampant. Most students, especially in high school, don't take it seriously. I have been in a classroom where someone jumped out the window, and nobody even thought to tell the teacher. Just not something that occurs to 95% of a high school population...and the other 5% are probably too afraid of the other students to tattle.

It does not mean that Buffy or Xander were on the honor role. It's just a system their school practices.
 
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