Re: To Robert C. Bulman

Teachers in the ’Hood: Hollywood’s Middle-Class Fantasy


It describes that low-achieving students can be transformed into some greater. Inner cities are describe in movies as struggling students, and in describing adolescent as socially troubled individuals. Movies and media portrays urban school are falling through the cracks of the system and that there are no real hope in these students. The main discussion about the portrayal from media is their behavioral problems. The administrative staff is surprised when students show. It is viewed that culture is in poverty and it is represented in film which may contradict but reinforces the thought of urban schools have problems and that others school away from the inner cities are better. There are social changes in the urban areas and schools are changing over time.


Hollywood portrays educator in the urban communities are less likely to push their students to achieve but the media portrays it in different perspectives. It seems that the plots in the media are the same, trouble students who are struggling to make it with helps from the educators and professionals. It seems that there is always a fight or negative turn in urban schools that are viewed to keep the classrooms, and the students’ attention to toward the studies. The media portrays inner city kids as a constant problem and a teacher that have faith in toward the students are the one who have an opportunity to become something greater. The movies portrays inner city students with behavior problems and because of the environment, the schools will never achieve anything thing positive unless someone (i.e. teachers) pushes the adolescents forward.