Mrs. Puff’s Boating School
Foundation:	October 2, 1991
Founder:	Mrs. Poppy Puff
Location:	Conch Street, Bikini Bottom
Employment:	1

Mrs. Puff’s Boating School is a drivers' education school on the Nickelodeon television animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants. The "boating school" as it is called, is located in Bikini Bottom (Conch Street) and in where Mrs. Puff teaches. She founded the school on October 2, 1991.

Contents 1 General 2 History 3 Building damages 4 Exams 5 Assignments 6 Students Enrolled 7 Trivia 8 Gallery 9 References

GeneralEdit

The Boating School features the main building, a lighthouse, and the driving course. The lighthouse is at the Boating School for an unknown reason. The track features a parking lot for the boats used in the tests. The track is sponsored by ½ Shell, a Bikini Bottom gas station (a parody of Shell gas stations).

In some episodes, the school is a one-room school, however in others, it is a full academy. The school features the Hallway of Learning which includes the Fountain of Learning, the Lockers of Learning, and the Stairs of Learning. Also, the hallway features a trophy display case.

There are many classrooms and teachers such as Mrs. Flounder. Mrs. Puff's classroom includes a chalkboard, Good Noodle Board, Roger's Glass Box, teacher's desk, ten student desks, and the supply closet. Mrs. Puff's desk is in front of the chalkboard. It features some other student's desks, including an empty, broken-down desk where the bad students sit. At the back of the room, there is a hand-drawn picture of the Boating School track and 2 emergency exits. There is also a supply closet, which is next door of the classroom, behind the chalkboard. The classes commonly begin at 9:00 a.m.^[1] In Hall Monitor, students go home at 2:05 p.m.

The boating school has a chart, which lists awards for the students. It is called the Good Noodle Board. Students obtain Good Noodle stars for certain things, such as attendance, penmanship, basic desk sanitation, and advanced desk sanitation. This system is quite unusual for a class directed at teenagers and young adults. Two classroom disruptions loses one star.^[1]

Like any other school, this school has a set of rules. This includes no fighting (results in detention),^[1] no butt kicking,^[2] no cheating, must pay attention, and no insulting drawings of the teacher (although many students do this anyway.)^[1]

Students who have attended the school include SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, Squidward Tentacles, Lloyd, Sheila, Paco, Bart, Debbie, Horace,^[1] Flats the Flounder,^[2] Jimmy, Phil, Tina, Henry, Vera, and Clayton. These are the only known students.^[3]

In "Boating School," SpongeBob failed his test only 39 times by the end of the episode. Later, in "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired", SpongeBob failed his boating test 1,258,058 times by this episode. This implies that he has taken his test more rapidly than in his first years of boating school. In "Driven to Tears," SpongeBob says he has failed his drivers' test 57 times. He then fails it the 58th time. Mrs. Puff says that his record in "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired" was destroyed in the accident, which is as if he never failed. This can lead to the conclusion that SpongeBob failed his test 1,258,123 times altogether.

Even though the school is a boating school, there are many characteristics of the school which make it seem more like an average grade school. This includes having a Hall Monitor ("Hall Monitor"), having hallways, outdoor lunch periods, trophy cases, recess, lockers, school pictures, school bells, field trips ("Procrastination" and "Nautical Novice"), and the good noodle board. Also, SpongeBob is seen wearing a backpack in the episode New Student Starfish.

In the book, "Class Confusion," a substitute temporarily takes over for Mrs. Puff. SpongeBob and a fellow classmate, Horace, switch places. Horace initially passes SpongeBob through school, enabling him to drive, which flabbergasts Mrs. Puff. In the end, the truth is revealed, and everything returns to normal.

In New Student Starfish, there were twenty-four students, the greatest number of students. The student enrollment minimum number is nine. In "Hall Monitor," there were also more than nine.

HistoryEdit

Mrs. Puff established the Boating School October 2, 1991, where she rented boats, and obstacle equipment and had roads paved for driving tests, exams, and practicing. on the day of the opening, Mrs. Puff was featured on the Bikini Bottom News, and shortly after she began letting Student in, she met SpongeBob, as seen in a Doing Time, flashback. She began to see a flaw in letting SpongeBob in, but since it was law enforced she had to continue. She started noticing a problem around August, of 1999, where SpongeBob was up to his 30th time failing the test, also being the most frequently failed, and crashing student, but the school board gave her no choice. She had a strict dislike over SpongeBob after the Board confrontation, and he still attends here to this day. On April-2-2006, Sergeant Sam Roderick, a drill instructor at another School, was hired to attempt to teach SpongeBob, and he was successful, until SpongeBob was confronted about the driving, part, since he had mastered blind-driving, he could not do without, which is very odd. Gunther Fitz is in observation of this School, making sure there is order, and fairness, and that SpongeBob is learning all he can to pass the exam, and get behind the wheel. On the seventh account of Puff's arrests, there has been a Television, Via Satellite, from Prison, where she gives lessons from Her Cell, monitored by a Prison Guard. The position of Hall Monitor was exterminated, due to SpongeBob destroying the town, believing a simple hall monitor, was at the authority of a Police Patrolman. She is known to take in student, by the will to drive, even when it is not legally ordered, such as Patrick wanting to take the test to challenge himself.In 1993 Mrs. Puff Had a problem she had Roger to look after.In 2002 she made SpongeBob and Patrick look after him.

Building damagesEdit

The school has been damaged in numerous ways.

• "Boating School": SpongeBob crashed into the lighthouse tower, which topples to the ground.
• "Doing Time": SpongeBob destroyed all the structures then went on to the city.
• "No Free Rides": SpongeBob tries to rush through the exam and crashes in front of the school’s main building.
• "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired": SpongeBob drives into a gas can, resulting in the building blowing up.
• "The Hot Shot": Though little damage was done, SpongeBob crashes into the school after speeding in one of racing legends Tony Fast's racing boats while being in the car with Tony Fast Jr..

ExamsEdit

There are two exams that must be completed correctly, and with an excellent grade in order to graduate and obtain a license.

Oral Exam: The Oral Exam consists of ten questions, many of them simple, such as asking the name of the front of the boat. In the 1999 episode Boating School, Mrs. Puff starts his exam with an "oral test." She is only able to ask three questions; SpongeBob has the rest of the test memorized.

• Question 1: What is the front of the boat? The bow.
• Question 2: What is the back of the boat? The stern.
• Question 3: "Right" is? Starboard...
  (From this point, SpongeBob gives the answers without Mrs. Puff's questions; the questions listed are only speculation as to what she might've asked.)
• Answer: port; question 4: "Left" is?
• Answer: Skipper; question 5: Who is the person in command of a boat?
• Answer: deck; question 6: What is the floor level of a ship?
• Answer: cabin; question 7: What is an enclosed room of a ship?
• Answer: galley; question 8: What is the kitchen of a boat called?
• Answer: keel; question 9: What is the name of what the hull of a ship is built around?
• Answer: 1924; question 10: What year did the British submarine L-34 sink in the English Channel?

Driving Exam: The driving exam is the only part of the exam that SpongeBob has trouble with. The steps to the exam are listed below.

• 1. Start the Boat.
• 2. Put it in drive.
• 3. Floor it. (shoe only faster)
• 4. Turn Left. (Don't crash into wall.)
• 5. Turn Right.
• 6. Stop at Stop Sign.
• 7. Look both ways.
• 8. Continue driving.
• 9. Turn around flagpole.
• 10. Drive vertically up road.
• 11. Drive vertically down road.
• 12. Jump over anchor.
• 13. Fly through a ring of fire.
• 14. Help man cross street.
• 15. Pop wheelie.
• 16. Drive Upside-down.
• 17. Get back on road.
• 18. Drive to the Finish Line. 600 points passes.

AssignmentsEdit

There has also been known for assignments given out for homework by Mrs. Puff during the series.

During Procrastination, Mrs. Puff assigned a 800-word essay on "What Not to Do at a Stoplight" which was due for the next day. SpongeBob, finding it very hard to do, tried to do everything to get out of writing his essay. All these things then inspired him on what to write for his essay. He then came in the next day, just to find out that Mrs. Puff cancelled the assignment and class for the day, and later deciding to just have a field trip to a sop light instead.

In Oral Report, Mrs. Puff assigns the entire class to each do a oral report, in which SpongeBob's subject is "Boating Safety." After a scary encounter of public speaking, he was very afraid of doing his report in front of his class, so he takes one of the boats and drives aimlessly through town. Since he was unsupervised, Mrs. Puff is then arrested.

Students EnrolledEdit

• SpongeBob: He has been in the school since March 3, 1999 and has never passed a single test.
• Patrick: He was a new student, in the episode, New Student Starfish for a day. Patrick then returned in a later episode, where he passed the test, and got his license(which he really shouldn't have).
• Squidward: He was enrolled in Boating Buddies for breaking a stop sign.
• Nat
• Beth-Vera
• Jimmy
• Evelyn
• Tina
• Shubie
• Paco
• Rich
• Shelia
• Nazz
• Horace
• Bart
• Miss Shell
• Morty
• Other Bottomites

TriviaEdit

• In some episodes, it shows Mrs. Puff's Boating School as a one-room school, and in some episodes, it is shown as a full school with different rooms and lockers.
• Occasionally, a replacement testing course is used instead of the original, or the basic one is simply changed with a few modifications.

GalleryEdit

ReferencesEdit

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} as seen in the episode, "New Student Starfish"
2. ^ ^{a b} as seen in the episode, "The Bully"
3. ^ as seen in the episode, "Hall Monitor"

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