History Recap / FamilyGuyS5E16NoChrisLeftBehind

** 2.) While at the PTA-meeting, Lois lambasts the school for how underfunded it and encourages the school to raise its test scores in any way possible (so they'll get more funding under the No Child Left Behind Act). Unfortunately, this leads to Chris getting expelled, because Principal Shepherd decided that the first thing that the school can do to raise test scores is expel the school's "dumbest" student, who just so happens to be Lois's own son, Chris.

** 1.) She drags her family out to a ballet late on a school night and the next morning, she chastises Chris for a reading a book during breakfast. [[DumbassHasAPoint But Chris defends himself by claiming that he has a test at school that day but was unable to get any studying done the previous night because of Lois forcing him and the rest family to go to the ballet]]. Brian then discovers that Chris's textbook is severely outdated and Lois, after reading some of it herself, promises to "raise hell about this" at the high school's next PTA-meeting.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Lois discovers that the School's funding is low due to low average test scores, She insists the principal do something to raise averages immediately. The principal responds that the easiest way to raise them is to expel Chris, the dumbest student in the school.

** 1.) She drags her family out to a ballet late on a schoolnight and the next morning, she chastises Chris for a reading a book during breakfast. [[DumbassHasAPoint But Chris defends himself by claiming that he has a test at school that day but was unable to get any studying done the previous night because of Lois forcing him and the rest family to go to the ballet]]. Brian then discovers that Chris's textbook is severely outdated and Lois, after reading some of it herself, promises to "raise hell about this" at the next PTA-meeting for the high school.
** 2.) While at the PTA meeting for James Woods High, Lois lambasts the school for how underfunded it and encourages the school to raise it's test scores in any way possible (so they'll get more funding under the No Child Left Behind Act). Unfortunately, this leads to Chris getting expelled, because Principal Shepherd decided that the first thing they can do raise the school's test scores is to expel the "dumbest" student (i.e., Chris Griffin).

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Principal Shepard decides the best method to cut funding is to get rid of the dumbest kid in the school. He immediately announces that Chris is expelled, leading to this reaction.

** 1.) She drags her family out to a ballet (relatively) late on a school night--the morning after, she chastises Chris for a reading a book during breakfast. [[DumbassHasAPoint But Chris defends himself by claiming that he has a test at school that day but was unable to get any studying done the previous night because of Lois forcing him and the rest family to go to the ballet]]. Brian and Lois then notice that the textbook Chris is studying from is severely outdated and Lois promises that she's "going to raise hell about this" at the high school's next PTA-meeting.

** Lois and Brian finding out that Chris' textbook is outdated: the TV version has Chris' textbook from 1948 with such chapters as "Big Band Music Causes Youth Rebellion" and "Israel: The Hot New Country Everyone's Gonna Love". The DVD version has Chris' textbook from '''''1896''''' with such chapters as "Here Comes Utah"[[note]]which did become a state in 1896, but it was already considered American territory in 1848[[/note]] and "Negroes: America's Dancin'est Rapefolk", with Lois offended over the latter title [[ComicallyMissingThePoint because nobody uses the word "negro" to mean "African-Americans" anymore]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lois calls out Principal Shepard after finding out that the school can't afford new textbooks, so they decide to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act in order to increase the budget by kicking out the dumbest kid in school, which unfortunately turns out to be Lois's own son.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Lois, twice over. First, she drags the rest of the family to a ballet, then chastises Chris for reading a book during breakfast, which turns out to be for a test that he couldn't study for the previous night (because, [[DumbassHasAPoint as he pointed out]], Lois made the family go to the ballet). Lois then notices how out of date the book is and lambasts the school for how underfunded it is. She then encourages the school to raise the school's test score average in any way possible (so they'll get more funding under the No Child Left Behind Act), which leads to Chris getting expelled.

When ]the family discovers Chris using an extremely outdated textbook, Lois complains about it at a PTA meeting for his high school--Principal Shepherd explains that the "No Child Left Behind Act" cut their school's funding because of low test scores. Principal Shepherd claims that the best way to remedy the situation is by expelling the school's worst student, who turns out to be none other than Chris himself.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Lois, twice over. First, she drags the rest of the family to a ballet, then chastises Chris for reading a book during breakfast, which turns out to be for his homework that he couldn't do the previous night (because, [[DumbassHasAPoint as he pointed out]], Lois made the family go to the ballet). Lois then notices how out of date the book is and lambasts the school for how underfunded it is. She then encourages the school to raise the school's test score average in any way possible (so they'll get more funding under the No Child Left Behind Act), which leads to Chris getting expelled.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lois raises a big stink because the school can't afford new textbooks, so they decide to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act in order to increase the budget by kicking out the dumbest kid in school, which unfortunately turns out to be Lois's own son.

* TakeThat: To the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act No Child Left Behind Act]] a controversial legislation that critics claimed hurt poorly performing schools more than helping them.

Lois sees that the school can’t afford new textbooks, so she demands more funding. In order to get it, the school must expel their worst student, who turns out to be Chris.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Invoked by Stewie, who takes a part-time job playing funny tuba music while following fat people.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Thanks to help from Carter, Chris is able to get back into his old school and clear the family's expense.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lois raises a big stink because the school can't afford new textbooks, so they decide to cut down on the budget by kicking out the dumbest kid in school, which unfortunately turns out to be Lois's own son.

Lois sees that the school can’t afford new textbooks, so she demands new funding. In order to get it, the school must expel their worst student, who turns out to be Chris.

Lois sees that the school can’t pay new textbooks, so she lets them expel the school’s dumbest student, which turns out to be Chris.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lois raises a big stink because the school can't afford new textbooks, so they decide to cut down on the budget by kicking out the dumbest kid in school, which unfortunately turns out to be Lois's own sun.

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** When Chris calls Lois about how he doesn't like being in private school and Lois tells Chris that she'll talk to her father about making it easier for him, there's an extra scene in the DVD version where Chris comments that being in private school is worse than when he had to fire Rocky Balboa for using the cow carcasses in a meat freezer as a punching bag (with Rocky pointing out that Paulie is having sex with one of the cow carcasses).

** Lois and Brian finding out that Chris' textbook is outdated: the TV version has Chris' textbook from 1948 with such chapters as "Big Band Music Causes Youth Rebellion" and "Israel: The Hot New Country Everyone's Gonna Love". The DVD version has Chris' textbook from '''''1896''''' with such chapters as "Here Comes Utah"[[note]]which did become a state in 1896, but it was already considered American territory in 1848[[/note]] and "Negroes: America's Dancin'est Rapefolk", with Lois offended over the latter title [[ComicallyMissingThePoint because nobody uses the word "negro" to mean "African-Americans" anymore]].

After he got expelled from James Woods High, Chris must go to Carter’s old school, but he doesn’t fit in. Carter decides to help him fit in, while the whole family takes jobs to pay for Chris' education. Peter gets in another fight with the Giant Chicken.

After he got expelled from James Woods High, Chris must go to Carter’s old school, but he doesn’t fit in. Carter decides to help him fit in, while the whole family take jobs to pay for Chris' education. Peter gets in another fight with the Giant Chicken.

Chris gets expelled from James Woods High and must go to Carter’s old school, but he doesn’t fit in. Carter decides to help him fit in, while the whole family take jobs to pay for Chris' education.

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