Anecdotes

Bored of Education (1936) is Hal Roach's only "Little Rascals" short to win an Academy Award, as best short of the year. Hal Roach won more with Laurel & Hardy.

During the first minute, Spanky said the school-year lasts for 210 days. (30 more than 180), an additional six-weeks.

When the kids get ice cream bars as a treat for the first day of school with a new teacher, all the kids get chocolate-covered bars, except Buckwheat, whose bar is white. It might have been a coincidence, except that the director includes a specific shot of Buckwheat smiling and pointing to his white ice cream. (The use of the black-white reverse gag is seen in other Our Gang shorts as well, albeit less subtly, such as Three Smart Boys (1937), in which the boys paint black spots on their faces to fake an epidemic, but, realizing they won't show up on Buckwheat, they paint white spots on his face; or Ye Olde Minstrels (1941), which has a production number in which a lighting trick turns a line of dancers into blackface minstrels - except for Buckwheat, who is shocked to realize his face has gone white; or Hide and Shriek (1938), in which detective Alfalfa deputizes Buckwheat and Porky, with mustaches for their disguises - black whiskers for Alfalfa and Porky, white for Buckwheat.)

This was the second Hal Roach production to win an Oscar for Best Short Subject. The Laurel and Hardy short "The Music Box" won in 1932. In both cases Roach picked up the Oscar as producer; the actors won nothing.