No, not the TV series, the film with the kid from the Karate Kid.
This film was made in the 80's and has some great scenes. This film really does show how schools used to be run and the attitude that surrounded them because this film is all about a school that is being sued for graduating and illiterate child. In this film a teacher manages to die and the classes don't realise because he apparently spends his lessons sleeping behind them and the kids have a routine that they go through to make sure that they do work and the teacher looks like he is teaching.
The only decent teacher in the end decides to sue the school because they tried to make him quit his job when he raised concerns that a child in his class couldn't read and the school wasn't doing anything about it.
The soundtrack to this film is pretty good, somewhat similar to a John Hughes style film in the kind of classic rock that kicks off the film. The film itself is a film that i considered to be neither good nor bad. A film that i will remember because of the subject rather than the acting or the script. As a teacher, this film and the character Mr. Durell is the reminder of why we work so hard and put in so much effort to educate every child, regardless of the attitude from parents or from the people above us that don't see things from our point of view.
If you work in the education sector, maybe you should give up an hour and three quarters to watch this film and see if you agree with the message at the end.
This film was made in the 80's and has some great scenes. This film really does show how schools used to be run and the attitude that surrounded them because this film is all about a school that is being sued for graduating and illiterate child. In this film a teacher manages to die and the classes don't realise because he apparently spends his lessons sleeping behind them and the kids have a routine that they go through to make sure that they do work and the teacher looks like he is teaching.
The only decent teacher in the end decides to sue the school because they tried to make him quit his job when he raised concerns that a child in his class couldn't read and the school wasn't doing anything about it.
The soundtrack to this film is pretty good, somewhat similar to a John Hughes style film in the kind of classic rock that kicks off the film. The film itself is a film that i considered to be neither good nor bad. A film that i will remember because of the subject rather than the acting or the script. As a teacher, this film and the character Mr. Durell is the reminder of why we work so hard and put in so much effort to educate every child, regardless of the attitude from parents or from the people above us that don't see things from our point of view.
If you work in the education sector, maybe you should give up an hour and three quarters to watch this film and see if you agree with the message at the end.
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