NOKW - Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Basic Plot:  The classic tale of a kid who fakes being sick so that he can run around Chicago and do a bunch of grown-up stuff for some reason.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that Ferris's mom should probably take her son to the doctor instead of just going to work considering he was missing his 9th day of school that year (I looked that up).  The fact that this movie makes more sense if you watch it thinking that Ferris is nothing but a figment of Cameron's imagination.  The fact that Cameron would let Ferris talk him into leaving his bed despite him actually being sick and then letting Ferris talk him into stealing his dad's car.  The fact that they actually made a TV series based on this movie where a pre-Friends Jennifer Aniston played Ferris's sister.  The fact that a bunch of high school kids would start a "Save Ferris" campaign.  The fact that high school kids would go to a museum when skipping school instead of just getting drunk or something fun.  The fact that Ferris wasn't instantly arrested for jumping on a parade float and singing.  The fact that they thought driving the car in reverse would actually lower the mileage on the odometer.  The fact that I really want to know what happens to Ferris's sister after she allows the dog to attack the principal.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that Principal Rooney is trying to hunt down Ferris for missing school even though he has an excused absence.  Yeah, after Ferris convinces his mom that he is sick, she calls the school and informs them that he will be out for the day and yet Principal Rooney still decides that he has the authority to leave school grounds and find Ferris.  The kid was excused from school and the principal thought it would be perfectly okay to look for him.  Why?  What exactly did he think he was going to accomplish?  Was he going to find Ferris and then suspend him from school?  No, because Ferris was allowed to miss class by his mother and so suspension was out of the question.  Was he going to nab Ferris and then tell his parents about his adventures?  Maybe, but who are they going to believe, their son or the crazy principal who illegally hunted down their son to prove a point?  I would wager it would be their son.  If anything, Principal Rooney should have seen that Ferris was out that day, accepted it, and went on doing his job as a school administrator.  Instead, he runs around town and accosts kids then attempts to break into Ferris's house.  I am not okay with that.

"What genius thought it would be a good idea to let a high school kid take over the parade?"