High School Principal Reacts - The Simpsons! - S6E21 - "The PTA Disbands" Reaction Video

In this video, I will react to the school scenes from The Simpsons, Season 6, Episode 21, "The PTA Disbands."
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[@ExecutiveSonda]

I love classic Simpsons. Always interesting to hear professionals comment on how Simpsons portray things, education in this case.

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Thanks for the feedback. I plan on doing more Simpsons, so let me know if you have a favorite episode. I am almost finished with “Lisa Gets an A” and am seeking other video projects. Thanks for watching! 😎👍

[@ExecutiveSonda]

@@SchoolPrincipalReacts My number one episode has to be You Only Move Twice, which is basically a parody of James Bond (but it does contain an education related subplot for Bart). Another of my favorites is Lisa's Substitute, where Lisa gets a new substitute teacher, who happens to be an actual substitute teacher compared to the old man threatening children with paddling.

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Thanks! I will definitely check out those episodes! 👍👍

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

3:20 -- If you don't know, in the Simpsons universe, Shelbyville is Springfield's rival city.

[@nicktwitchell-oz7jm]

The part where that random guy totally freaked out and jumped out the window was hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Yes! I thought so too! 😂😂😂

[@Kno_Buddy]

I went to school in the 90s & 00s and they still paddled kids in one of my elementary schools. Even the slightest infraction and they took you into the hallway to bend you over a table and force you to read while they paddled you. One kid in second grade got paddled for peeing his pants. I went to school in Southeastern Ohio.

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

I believe it! I had the same experience, although I haven’t heard of the forced reading. Some school districts have banned this, while others still allow it. Thanks for watching! 😎👍

[@Kno_Buddy]

@@SchoolPrincipalReacts most districts in my area have banned it. The school still exists, I don’t know if the policy still does. I went to another school where I was just thrown into the learning disability classes simply because I have ADHD and high functioning autism. My cognitive abilities aren’t stunted, only my social abilities. The teacher and her helper were extremely abusive and condescending with a short fuse. My father wouldn’t get me out of those classes and the school wouldn’t do anything so I had to fight the school to get out of there because those kids weren’t learning anything and it felt like my time was being wasted. I succeeded in getting out and since graduated high school and college with honors on the dean’s list and over 250% of the credits necessary in each.

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

@Kno_Buddy Wow! That’s an inspiring story! Many kids do not advocate for themselves the way you obviously did! Amazing!

[@Kno_Buddy]

@@SchoolPrincipalReacts it’s less so with their attitude about it and the idea that they don’t know they can have better if they just tried. Understandable with the state our country is in, but students need to hear more that they are being heard and that they possess the ability to do better than those before them if they’re willing to try. Special education classes across the country need an audit and a restructuring. My cousin is also autistic and in his early 20s is still mentally 7. At 17 being a senior in high school they had only gone as far as teaching him to tie his own shoes. Essentially just basic life skills and nothing about thinking critically about things or money management so now he is living on his own spending money faster than he gets it always wanting the newest shiny thing and is not at all productive in any way, just enjoying his squandered finances.

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

@@Kno_Buddy I completely understand. Unfortunately, I have seen many situations similar to what you are describing.

[@maximilianschmid9890]

"Columbine prinnscippal+Bob Newhart"

[@justinw7323]

Also note, the school is lousy, and Skinner has a metal head stoner for a bus driver. His name is Otto. The purple monkey dish washer remark always made me laugh. Otto and Mrs Krabappple are reoccuring characters. Springfield Elementary is meant to be a crooked school for comedic purposes. In a later episode the Malk is from rats. Provided by the local springfield mobster leader Fat Tony.

[@apeheadboink]

Teachers at your school Timmy, go to the principal's office! is what I would say, but he's making a reaction video right now

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Lol! 😂 Yes, that would be a problem if I were making videos during school! Thanks for watching! 😎👍

[@blankblankness2971]

Leaving students behind when returning from a field trip is terrible because then the students that don’t return could gain a “presumed dead” status. I’ve heard of this one instance where a class in Belize went on a field trip to a monkey sanctuary, but one student got left behind and everyone assumed that he’d been mauled to death by some rogue monkeys.

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

That’s crazy!

[@jdtp434]

En México las huelgas eran el pan de cada dia un tiempo, era un sindicato nacional (uno de los dos que existen) y las negociaciones eran directamente con la secretaria de educación pública

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Wow interesante. En los estados unidos el sistema de educacion es bien diferente. El poder realmente no es al nivel nacional, pero con los estados. Gracias! 🇲🇽

[@blankblankness2971]

19:54 I know about this issue where students use their lunch money to buy things from the vending machines. I remember how one year it became such a big issue, my school had to place a ban on students using vending machines everywhere; not just in the teachers’ lounge, but also in places like the nurse’s office and even in the gym hallway. (I don’t know why there even was a vending machine in the gym hallway, but there was one and people used it a lot.)

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Yes, there are rules about this also, as far as where machines can be located and when they can be used.

[@nal101]

Yeah in high school we had 1 outside the gym locker rooms, 2 in the cafeteria, and 1 outside one of the science rooms.

[@shermanhatch2716]

Dan castlenetta is hilarious

[@laurencewinch-furness9450]

Back in the sixties Britain had the 11 plus, which split pupils into grammer and secondary modern schools. My dad went to the latter, and overheard his headmaster (principal) telling my grandmother "these kids are only cannon fodder anyway"

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Wow! 😬

[@blankblankness2971]

This episode reminded me of two SML videos I want to recommend. The first one is “The School Bus!”, which is about a group of students interfering with a school bus driver’s concentration in the line of duty. The second one is “The Lunch Lady!”, which has a lot of satire about school cafeteria workers.

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Thanks!

[@AndyHoward]

Vertias Et Scientia "Truth and knowledge" 9:26 "I'd like to get down now."

[@blankblankness2971]

18:03 I’ve always thought Bart’s wordplay-related pranks that he pulls on Moe are really funny. (Usually, he’ll prank call Moe’s Tavern and ask to speak with a fake bar patron whose name is wordplay on a ridiculous phrase.)

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Yes! 😂

[@jescis0]

When was it changed to PTO? PTA is Parent Teacher Association and has been for decades!! I haven't heard of the new use of Organization as the substitute for Association??

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

This sometimes goes by different names depending on where you live. It’s the same thing. 👍

[@blankblankness2971]

PTO is the term I commonly hear in Texas. Some other states productively use PTA.

[@jescis0]

@@blankblankness2971 Oh Ok, thanks, does that mean the song "Herper Valley PTA" would be confusing or changed for those States as well?? Because that would confuse me to go somewhere else and hear a different acronym for "Parent Teacher Association"…🤯🤯🤔🤔

[@adultmoshifan87]

12:14 so if we're purchasing fast food this week, will we be disguising it as our own cooking?

[@thewewguy8t88]

I feel like from watching your commentary I am learnding.

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Thanks so much for the feedback, I hope you enjoy my content! 👍

[@thewewguy8t88]

@@SchoolPrincipalReacts thanks super Nintendo Chalmers :) in all seriousness though your commentary on this episode was really interesting to hear :)

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

@@thewewguy8t88 Glad you liked it!

[@dandychiggins7240]

He won't be laughing so much when they form an union in Georgia 🙊 lol jk

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

😂

[@EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

There's a Hey Arnold! episode, "Teacher's Strike," with a similar premise.

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Thanks!

[@HarlsLegend]

That Is an amazing moustache

[@blankblankness2971]

I don’t think Skinner was kidding when he said the exhaust leak in the back of the bus was causing the low test scores. All the exhaust the students were breathing in has got to give them respiratory problems, given that it’s mostly carbon monoxide, and that can easily keep them from concentrating.

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Yep! I agree!

[@food223]

amusing reaction, seeing as i never been to the US i dont know what schools are like over there, obviously there is plenty of exaggeration but its interesting to actually hear what has more truth to it

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Thanks! Where are you from?

[@food223]

no problem i am from Australia, so most likely there is more similar than different in terms of schooling but still very different culture wise

[@blankblankness2971]

There’s no doubt that school nutrition programs are strict, but in some countries like France, it goes far beyond simply watching for health code compliances and violations; they have a fixed percentage of what students’ diets should include on average. (How much iron, calcium, omega-3s, etc.) They don’t just have fixed percentages; they also have exact average measurements in grams that are expected to be followed. That stuff aside, the school would get fines from the Food and Drug Administration if an inspector noticed them putting newspapers and gym mats in the food.

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Lol @newspapers….. that would be an enormous scandal. In reality school nutrition programs are strictly regulated in the U.S.

[@vazatimo3000]

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[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Lol 😂

[@twifightsparkill]

I didn't know that Tom Segura was also a principal! YIKES! 🤣💦

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

😂 Thanks for watching! 😎👍

[@virginiagibbins528]

React to Seymour Skinners bad*** song from season 5. The only thing inappropriate is the name

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

I will look into it. 👍 Thanks

[@jameshubacher2585]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the Taylor laws which say the people who are paid by taxes cannot go on strike. I know it applies to teachers in New York. I’m from Buffalo and the teacher I had for Economics mentioned those laws

[@nunyabiz8305]

It's been shown that chemicals found in yoga mats have also been found in food in general

[@UFBMusic]

Sounds to me like you ought to unionize.

[@SchoolPrincipalReacts]

Teachers unions are really controversial. Here in Georgia they are against the law because it is a right to work state.