I have been teaching for forty years or so, so I know a little about high schools, teaching and the American educational system (which, by the way, deserves an F). The system is completely corrupt, but the teachers in these schools are not. There is a reason that 55% of American teachers want to leave their profession; and stress is only one of them. Teachers has a first-rate cast, unlike Up the Down Staircase, which was made on a much smaller budget. However, Up the Down Staircase got the same point made about teaching that this film pounds you over the head with; that the schools are not about teaching; they are about bureaucrats, lawyers, politicians and other slimy individuals. It is the children that suffer. A film that tries very hard (too hard), and is only moderately successful.
Review of Teachers
