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I hope the Mod does not move this to "movies"...I was writing about the "Ron Clark Story", where Matthew Perry goes to a female student's home, without calling first, and no parents home...bad move, big time! And thought, maybe we should have a thread about movies with teachers, and what you think about them...I often watch them, with my jaded, cynical point of view, and just make snarky comments thru the whole movie to whoever is with me..."RIGHT...WhatEVER!"....
So, what do you think about movies with teachers? The Freedom Writers? Start the ball...
"Stand and Deliver" 1988. Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante.
Olmos was brilliant in capturing Escalante. The exteriors were filmed in East L.A. including Garfield High itself and the movie is one of the few that accurately portrays the people of and everyday life in that part of L.A. ("Born in East L.A" being another.)
(Unfortunately, infighting and politics destroyed what Escalante built at Garfield. But the film itself remains as a testament to him.)
While it is a TV series and not just about the classroom, DeGrassi Junior High was always entertaining and interesting to me - having written that, I am somewhat at a loss for why, exactly, I found it so - but I did.
Of TV depictions, I love season four of The Wire. A more realistic fictionalized look at troubled urban schools, those who work there, and those who attend, I've never seen.
"Stand and Deliver" 1988. Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante.
Olmos was brilliant in capturing Escalante. The exteriors were filmed in East L.A. including Garfield High itself and the movie is one of the few that accurately portrays the people of and everyday life in that part of L.A. ("Born in East L.A" being another.)
(Unfortunately, infighting and politics destroyed what Escalante built at Garfield. But the film itself remains as a testament to him.)
While in some ways the film is an inspiration, it is not realistic to think it can be done everywhere. To many of us who taught math, the idea that you must give up your personal life to teach this way is discouraging. If this is the only way that we can improve our math education in the inner cities, it is NOT going to happen.
Despite suffering from Tourette's syndrome, Brad Cohen (James Wolk) fulfills his lifelong dream of becoming a teacher in this touching Hallmark Hall of Fame production based on a true story that shines a light on this often misunderstood disorder. As Cohen grows up, he must face friends and classmates who don't realize that he sometimes cannot control his outbursts, and a father (Treat Williams) who seems unwilling to accept his son's condition.
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High", really the character "Ditto"...because everyone knows someone just like that...
Are you sure you're not thinking of Teachers? Another brilliant movie BTW.
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