Monster Essays - Movie Review: Dangerous Minds
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, ....
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