Why couldn't Kelly have just gone to a public school in the area. There is no way that the private army boarding school was the only school available
shareHer stepfather was the principal of the military school. He wanted his new daughter to go to his school.
shareWhen Kelly first learned that she was going to be attending the military academy that her new step-father was the commandant of she want to stay at the school she had been attending. She wanted to stay at her best friends house during the week and commute to their new home on the weekends but her mom shot that idea down saying that "family doesn't leave family behind". So if Kelly was to live in the barracks at the military academy all week and only come home on the weekend it would have been no different than commuting to her old school so her mom's logic of 'family not leaving family behind' breaks down right there. If Kelly's mom really wanted to keep Kelly close to her, like the way she seemed like she wanted to do, sending Kelly to a public school in the community where the *academy was located would have been the logical choice. Putting Kelly in that school was just to please the new hubby and bolster his pride, nothing more and nothing less. It was also obviously a move to get Kelly out of the way while enjoying the new marriage. Her mom was being selfish and she just doesn't want Kelly to realize that.
Nuff said about reality this is just a DCOM movie and you know reality just doesn't apply there. All in all it's a fun movie to watch that the whole family can enjoy. Besides the whole premise of the movie depended on Kelly being an unwilling student at the academy.
*FYI: Military academies are not located in the middle of nowhere. Even the most remote US Armed Forces training areas used for heavy artillery live fire training are in easy commuting distance of the nearest community. At the most that academy might be a 15 to 30 minute drive from the nearest city or town but probably closer.
because then there wouldn't have been a film. duh.
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I'd never agree to doing that. I would do whatever it took to go to a public school.
shareKelly should have just kept trying to get kicked out of the school. Maybe her mom would have gotten the message that she didn't want to go there. I just don't think it was right to flip Kelly's life upside down. So her mom wants to marry this guy and be happy, okay sure that's an adjustment. Then he gets a new job and Kelly has to leave her old school and move away from her friends, that's really awful but sometimes kids do have to move because of their parents jobs. But to make her go to a school that was 100% different? Not cool. The mother keeps talking about how she wouldn't make this decision if it weren't good for Kelly but seems like the mom didn't give a crap and only cared about the husband who didn't seem to really be loving anyways.
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Here's a reason I can believe: Kelly was sort of a "wild child" in a sense that she said things without thinking, was always running and jumping around, and pretty defiant. Her mom even said she needed to "slow down". So maybe her mom thought that my sending Kelly to a place where she'd be FORCED to turn it down a notch and learn how to listen. And you see that Kelly did end up changing due to military life, she learned to be patient and respect others.
shareI always thought that in that situation i would have more or less gone on strike.
I would have stayed in my bunk and never got out except for meals and the bathroom.
If they dragged me to the exercise yard other cadets would have to move my arms and legs. If they dragged me to the classroom I would sit at my desk and listen to the teacher but not do any homework or answer any questions in tests.
I would not have obeyed or responded to any orders from senior cadets.
And at home I would have been as sullen and solitary as I could.