Freedom Writers
With everything going on in our world today my daughter asked me to watch a movie she had seen in her high school English class. I had never seen it. It’s a great movie and well worth your time.
Its based on a true story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhXMJlm852A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Writers
Any other recommendations for good movies along these lines?
I saw FW for the first time the other day, good flick. I was always fond of Lean on Me, although it is more crude and has less academic content than FW.
Another film that I liked leaving for students when there was a sub was Smoke Signals. Thought provoking drama and informative about Native reservation culture
Not really well-received anymore because Sherman Alexie got #metoo'd.
I remember hating Smoke Signals when I watched it in high school. I should probably watch it again now that I’m not a snot nosed teenager
I like the movie. But I always found it a little odd that the teacher's okay with the class being so attached and dependent on her that they don't want to move on to the other teachers in the next grades. She even gets the principal to agree to her moving up with them each year. I just always wondered if that was maybe a little unhealthy? But hey, I'm no psychologist.
I always liked The Ron Clark Story with Matthew Perry. Elementary school kids instead of high school, though. To Sir, With Love (with Sidney Poitier) is a classic along these lines if you haven't seen it.
I haven't seen the movie. Are these special-needs kids or just general-ed students?
Having worked in education, if it's the latter, yeah, that seems pretty weird. There have been times where I've had some students a couple years in a row, but that's just how it worked out with the scheduling. To specifically change my assignment so I could be with the same group of kids again? Without knowing the specific circumstances in the movie, it seems odd.
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High." Mr. Hand gets Spicoli to understand American history in a truly inspirational way.
"What are you people, on dope?"
When this movie came out I thought Mr, Hand was a crabby-ass jerk. But after a few years - and after being a teacher myself for a short while - I realized how wise he truly was. He knew his subject, he cared whether his students learned, and he didn't lower his standards so they could squeak by.
Plus he was funny as hell, which is never a bad thing in a teacher.
Fast Times had an All Star Cast featuring 3 Academy Award Winners. You have drug use, truancy, teen pregnancy, abortion, owi, destruction of property, Damone’s little dick and of course Phoebe Cates pool scene. This qualifies.
Add to that list "Moving in Stereo" used in the most perfect fashion.
Memorable scene! And a great soundtrack all around.
One of the actors, Armand Jones, was killed after the movies release. Shot by 2 gang members outside a Dennys after a robbery.
Stand and Deliver
Stand and Deliver was a good movie. My only problem with it is that I watched it in my freshman spanish class in high school, in english. My teacher "Profe" was phoning it in and ended up retiring in the middle of the second semester. I still remember the alphabet Profe though.
Porky's.
I have to buy that DVD. The movie is nowhere to be found on any legitimate streaming site.
Wore out my VHS copy back in middle school.
Horny little mother already had a rubber on.
Sorry, but I'm going to have to go a off-topic for a moment, as the title immediately got me humming one of my favorite tracks by the band Traffic, "Freedom Rider".
What shocked me, after looking it up, is realizing this song is 50 years old already.
Enjoy:
(and then, after enjoying it, play it as intended, paired up with the song "Glad")
Traffic and Blind Faith combined made some of the best music of that era.
Freedom Writers, despite well intentioned, is a white savior film similar to the blind side. I'd avoid these types of films all together, as they do not attack the complicated nature of systemic racism very well.
Please give an example of systemic racism... just one!
How about you listen to an "old school" M Grad about this very subject!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR2lK36Tc4M&t=1377s
**Looking forward to you slamming Larry Elders with racial slurs so I can lobotomize you on social media.
White savior movie.
Contradiction to whats happening, since African Americans are chained to the Democratic party and the Fed in general. The only saving they need is to cut the handouts, and modify their values via education.
Furthermore, you might want to go watch it NOW... before it's pulled from play libraries on all channels. We pulled "Gone With the Wind"... anyone see the Neo-Nazi Fascism that's happening?
Furthermore, there are entirely African American dorms for some sports at certain universities... Candace Owens even talks about her own experiences marrying a "white man". Wow we are going in reverse folks, and it ain't the "whites"... Anti-miscegenation perspectives are boiling to the surface of BLM.