My best friend recently (this fall) started a new job teaching remedial students at a public school in a very poor urban area. Suffice it to say that he has some frustrations about his job and has been venting to me about them. So, because I possess a bizarre sense of humor and I am a wonderful friend, I have been posting trailers of movies that deal with this subject matter on his Facebook in order to inspire/amuse him. Yesterday it was Dangerous Minds. Today it was Stand and Deliver. Tomorrow it will be Finding Forrester.
Unfortunately, I’m running out of movies. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head for Sunday is The Substitute, but that’s really more about a teacher killing underprivileged kids rather than helping them. So any ideas? I want to keep this going as long as possible.
Isn’t that the one about the evils of teacher’s unions, and how how the world would be abetter place if only it were easier fire teachers? I am not sure it will be much appreciated by an actual teacher.
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To Serve Them All My Days is not about underprivileged kids, but it is a cheesy story about the wonderfulness of the teaching profession.
