Swank gives up the substantial joys of her life so that her students become compassionate, successful learners. She is willing to abort her marriage, just so she can achieve her goal of producing scholarly children. No teacher should be forced to make such extravagant sacrifices for the sake of their students. This goes beyond a misrepresentation of a teacher's duty and it is absurd that such a great burden rests on any teacher. “This trivializes not only the difficulties that many real students must overcome, but also the hard-earned skills and tireless effort that real teachers must expend to help those students succeed” (Moore). It's as if all the problems the students had in the film could simply be erased by a quick inspirational chat. Real students are now made to blame the teacher for their undesirable outcomes, rather than their intrinsic abilities and efforts (Ricket). Teachers do not need to sacrifice their lives for their students, they must instead provide them with the essential love and attention so that they can become the successful people they should aspire to be.