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Movie Review: Dangerous Minds - Paper

Movie Review: Dangerous Minds


Dangerous Minds is a movie about education at a mostly white and
upper middle-class California public school where poor urban teenagers of
color are bused in for a “supposedly” equal chance. These undisciplined
but energetic and passionate students have been “ghettoized” into the
Academy program where no sane teacher would tread except for ex-Marine
LouAnne Johnson, played by Michelle Pfeiffer. Leaving a nine-year military
career LouAnne Johnson is eager for employment as an English teacher but
she doesn't realize what she has gotten herself into. She bribes and
cajoles her students into learning, bucks the system, ignores petty
bureaucrats, employs offbeat methods and sacrifices ...

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At the beginning of the movie it shows how two teachers
have already quit their job at this school and had given up on these
students. Many educational stereotypes are out in today's world, which
makes people believe that these students do not want to learn or just do
not care about their futures. While this may be true in some instances
many students are desperate to connect with someone who cares about them.
Life has taught them to trust no one and count on nothing so many teachers
see this as a wall on the road to teaching them. The students of urban
public schools, of who many are bused in on a daily basis for the supposed
equal opportunity, are more worried about staying alive than reading,
writing and arithmetic. In the movie the instructors and faculty do not
even think that the students will even comprehend what they are talking
about, believing that the students are only bused in because of their color.
Not because they are smart and need an education to succeed and ...

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Added: 1/9/2005 02:59:20 PM
Category: Arts
Type: Free Paper
Words: 621
Pages: 3

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