>>56390091>Why do schools show you guys videos of this cartoon?They're educational and cover a variety of science topics, so perfectly acceptable to show during school. Generally, a class period might get a MSB or Bill Nye episode to watch when:
>normal teacher is out (sick, death in the family, whatever) and doesn't want to have the substitute just give the kids busywork>class has picked up on the lessons faster than expected, so a day off from standard lessons keeps to the schedule better - avoiding having a lot of lesson-less days at the end of the quarter/semester>after a large exam/project, both to reward the students for getting through it and to give the teacher time to grade the students' work while the show plays This is generally restricted to science class (since that's the topic of those two shows); other classes can use different shows to similar effect - English class tended to show movies of whatever play or novel we had recently read, my French class had Lucky Luke and Asterix cartoons (subtitled in English), American history showed Roots...
In hindsight, they were a remarkably effective way to keep the class quiet with nothing scheduled; if a kid got too noisy, their classmates would shush them so they could watch the show better.
