PARIS: Sorry I’m late, Mrs. Savitt.
MRS SAVITT: Is everything okay?
PARIS: Yes. I overslept.
In “The Deer Hunters”, Rory turned up a few minutes late for class after being hit by a deer, and all hell broke loose. There was a serious suggestion made that Rory might not be suitable for such a strict school as Chilton. Now Paris wanders into class late without any reasonable excuse, and it’s no big deal. The show could never really decide if Chilton was a big, scary, super strict school, or just a normal prep school.
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Rory was scheduled to take a test in “The Deer Hunters”. That probably accounts for the difference. In my experience, not unusual for teachers to not allow a student to take a test if he or she is late.
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Another difference is that Paris is a senior and been at the school right from the start of her education, while Rory was a new student and a sophomore.
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No, Paris and Rory are both Sophomores.
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I must have expressed myself badly. I’ll start again.
In Season 1 (2000), Rory and Paris were both sophomores, but Rory was a new student at the time she was refused a test after arriving slightly late.
Now, in Season 3 (2003), two years later, Rory and Paris are both seniors when Paris is allowed to be quite late to class.
So I was saying that at the time of her severe reprimand, Rory was a sophomore and a new student, and at the time Paris was late, she is a senior and has been at the school for several years – another difference between the two situations.
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