History Headscratchers / VideoGameHighSchool

** Firstly, she ''doesn't'' have other classes, because this school only teaches each student one course at a time. She also ''can't'' do any independent study because she wasn't just ''not given'' homework. She was ''given'' an assignment, and that assignment was ''don't do'' any ''homework!''

** Well, my "Driver's Education" course had a project where you had to find and discuss a few vehicle-related news articles throughout each week. If the course were an actual school course, then larger projects (such as essays) wouldn't have been too unreasonable. And then you have to consider the "serious business" that is video games: the Coach of the FPS team wrote a book featuring more FPS strategies than exist in Football and Soccer combined, we get physics lessons through weapon mechanics and drift discussions, and those are only a few examples. A "book report" then doesn't seem out-of-place.

*** Then again, why a book report?

*** What driving class assigns book reports?
**** Well, my "Driver's Education" course had a project where you had to find and discuss a few vehicle-related news articles throughout each week. If the course were an actual school course, then larger projects (such as essays) wouldn't have been too unreasonable. And then you have to consider the "serious business" that is video games: the Coach of the FPS team wrote a book featuring more FPS strategies than exist in Football and Soccer combined, we get physics lessons through weapon mechanics and drift discussions, and those are only a few examples. A "book report" then doesn't seem out-of-place.

*** There is mention of 'Drift Monks' in Season 2 Episode 4, so perhaps there is an entire philosophy around racing games.

*** That doesn't change the fact that she was doing Ted's work for him. Isn't that plagiarism to an extent?
**** Pretty sure that's a problem Ted and Drift King have to deal with, and they do so later in the episode.
***** When's that? There's never any mention of it after Episode 1.
****** Ted comes clean that he didn't do the report, apologizes and takes responsibility for not doing it, and even hands back the corn dog. He is then given an extension. Sure it's not exactly "professional" but it doesn't seem to be a "class assignment" (otherwise they wouldn't need to sneak into the Teacher's Lounge to get sodas) and the school isn't that "professional" to begin with (at least in terms of our standards).

*** Then could he not just put someone else in charge and make himself part-time? If he got put in charge after one day, I doubt it'd be that hard to move positions around.

*** They showed him being able to fly at the beginning of the episode. Having deliberately put himself in a life-threatening situation when there is an obvious way around it isn't dramatic, it's stupid.
**** And is Shotty not the kind of bot to do something stupid precisely because it's dramatic? We didn't even know he could fly until he jumped out a skyscraper for an appropriately dramatic exit.
***** That was so he wouldn't fall to the ground and be crushed, IE actual logical sense. When he sacrifices himself for The Law, there is none.

*** During Season 3 [[spoiler: we discover it was all part of their plan to increase their stock price so they could takeover VGHS]]

** TheReveal from the end of the first episode of season 3 now puts a new light on this question. What better way to [[spoiler:aid your brother's takeover of his biggest competitor by driving said competitor's biggest star into the figurative arms of your brother's own school?]]