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Foolishness and Folly
Let's be real: The adults in this movie are chumps. Ferris and Jeanie's parents, Rooney, Grace, the Chez Quis maître d'—they're all just dimwitted speed bumps on Ferris, Cameron, and Sloane's road to fun and freedom. The kids have taken over, and that's why Rooney is obsessed with bringing Ferris down: Rooney foolishly thinks that if he succeeds, he can put the adults back in power, in positions of real authority. Ha.
Meanwhile, between the droning, clueless teachers and staff, as well as the numerous bored students we see, school is portrayed as utterly useless. Ditto for parents. Cameron's absent folks foolishly ignore their child, and Mr. and Mrs. Bueller are loving to the point of obliviousness. In the world of Ferris Bueller Day's Off, the kids may not be completely all right, but at least they're not morons like the adults.
If the administration weren't so dim-witted, Ferris wouldn't have had to take a day off from school in the first place.
Tom and Katie Bueller love their children, but they don't understand either of them. At all.
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