MovieChat Forums > 21 Jump Street (1987) Discussion > How did they get enrolled in schools?

How did they get enrolled in schools?


Don't parents have to go with their kids to get them enrolled in school? Did they have a bunch of older police officers go in posing as parents?

reply

It was probably really easy pre-internet to forge things. I never went with my parents when they enrolled me in school.

reply

The schools allowed you to enroll yourself? I guess they could have just had records "transferred", using fake records.

reply

How did who get enrolled??? If you mean the officers.....they were undercover and it's assumed that the higher school officials were informed...

reply

Its a shoe

reply

I know it is a *show*. Did you ever hear of a plot-hole?

reply

It’s actually plot whole and yes

reply

So, you are saying it is the whole plot as opposed to a hole in the plot?

reply

There are several plot wholes in each episodic

reply

lmfaooooo this exchange is brilliant.

reply

Old, but the phrase is plot hole. That is, a hole in the plot. Try googling (or whatever search engine you prefer) "plot whole" You won't find anything, other than sites listing "plot hole"

reply

I would imagine that being law enforcement, they didn't have to enroll. The PD could just tell the higher-ups in the district that they're putting a couple of agents in and voila, it happens.

reply

Yeah, kind of like in cop shows when a cop needs to infiltrate a prison.
The warden will know what's going on but not the guards.

reply

and that too....I would think the superintendent, schoolboard principal...etc does not want crime in their school. So they let the super young looking cop on campus even though they lack paperwork/the correct paperwork.

reply

That didn’t work well for Stallone..

reply

In which Film.

reply

I think they worked directly with the schools.

reply

They would have been. Their was an undercover operation my high school back in the 80's and after they made an arrest it came out that the superintendent of the school had set it up with the police. I'm assuming it was done the same way in every place it happened. Now the problem today is with the internet it would be very easy for students to do a look up on the new kid and where they claimed to have come from and very easy to see if it was legit. To create a complete enough backstory would take some serious effort which I doubt most police today would be willing or capable of doing. God knows they might have to skip a donut break.

reply

They wouldn't have needed to enroll. That said, if the Principal was corrupt or a gossip they might give the whole thing away.

reply

There must be a way considering it happens in real life.

reply