2. Forced "F"'s. -We have talked about this in class, but none of the movies have shown this. So what happens when a teacher is forced to flunk certain students to fill a quota or keep their job?
3. The system does work. -Why is it always that every student is failing under the school system and then they miraculously pass with the new teaching system? What about the students that work best under a system like "the system"? I think it would be interesting to show how the system has it's place or how certain students need that in order to succeed.
4. How much of their situation is actually the kids fault? -For this, I imagine that it would be like somebody who gets impacted greatly by something completely outside of their control and suffers academically because of it. Like, what if somebody's dad got hit by a car? Then they might have to work or they couldn't afford the hospital bills, which would affect their academics. How would that play out?
5. The teacher learns a lesson from the kids. -What would happen if Michelle Pfeiffer had entered the classroom expected a bunch of ghetto black kids and started talking to them like such but they ended up being much smarter than she expected? How about if she expected them to succeed but realized her methods weren't working so she instead has to learn what the kids have gone through and doesn't teach them as much?
6. Where in the world are all of these anyways? -I know we can't do this due to budgetary constraints, but what if the school were in Nebraska? How would that compare to the same story in Chicago? How much does the environment affect the story and learning for the students?
7. More than one class. -Seriously, the fact that in each one of these films there is only one class makes sense. I understand, there would simply be too much to focus on otherwise. But then it's like they don't teach anybody else and the students don't learn from anybody else. Every school obviously has more going on than this so why not show it? Show four classes and then just focus on a smaller cast of students per class. If this is a problem, decrease class size so it seems like a more specialized school.
8. Follow the students home. -Every one of the movies we watched in class were about the teacher. Fair enough, writers forgot what it's like to be kids I guess. But with ours, it's written by kids. So why not follow the kids home, or if not home, show more of them outside of the school than the teacher outside of school. Make the students the focus, not the teacher.
9. Parents do care. -Not every child with bad grades comes from a broken home. Yet Hollywood clearly thinks so, because that's the only way that their minds can comprehend people doing poorly, blame the parents. Well, what if the parents are great, the school is great, but the friends cause the downfall? Where would that lay in terms of importance on a students academic performance?
10. Where do they go? -With the revelations the teacher lays down for the students, where do they go in life? Can we get a like "Ten years later..." and show a reunion with everybody in a new place in life, to show where these brilliant teachings take the students? I think this is a make or break for the entire premise of these movies, which is why they largely fail.
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