My Posse Don't Do Homework

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Her methods draw the attention of the school authorities, George Grandey and Carla Nichols, who try to force her to remain within the curriculum. Though he said Pfeiffer's acting made the film "fairly entertaining", Terrence Rafferty of The New Yorker criticized the film's screenplay and the sentimental ending, which he said gives Pfeiffer's character an unnecessary halo.

Miss Johnson is a newly hired teacher set with the task of working in a difficult inner city school. The endless financial struggles to meet the needs of students and the financial stress teachers take upon themselves. Because so much writing about teaching is reflective, I found it refreshing to read something driven by action.Showing up the next day to begin teaching, however, she finds herself confronted with a classroom of tough, sullen teenagers, all from low-income working-class backgrounds, involved in gang warfare and drug pushing, flatly refusing to engage with anything.

There was a part where a non-white kid was talking about how he went up to a person (presumably white, I think) on the streets and asked if he could have their jacket.I don't go around picking at everything I see adults (especially teachers, who aren't even allowed to wear jeans for some reason) wearing, even though I don't like it. But I would argue that whether the maverick teacher is middle-class, white or black, male or female — the key is in that person’s motivation. In doing so, however, she repeatedly ignores the advice of her fellow faculty members, whom she portrays as weathered and tired, if not simply inflexible.