Hollywood inflated the public's view of the neighborhood as it was shown in black and white, focused on graffiti with sirens in the background and even included a drug deal taking place across the street to the students as they boarded the bus. It can be hypothesized that the living conditions students live in are what leads them to develop harsh attitudes towards life that cause behavioral problems. This idea is seen even today; students are the creation of the place they live. From past experience, I observed that the students who misbehaved and misbehaved were the ones who came from a broken home or lived in a tough neighborhood. For example, when Mrs. Johnson first entered the classroom, each student was in their own world and doing whatever they wanted. None of them paid attention to Mrs. Johnson, but those who did were disrespectful by calling her “white bread” (8:00-9:35). In the film Freedom Writers, students expressed the same reactions to the new teacher (10.15). In both cases, these were minority students from low-income families. In both of these films most of the teachers at the school accepted the students' misbehavior and did not want to teach them or have anything to do with them. In Dangerous Minds, students were even called special kids by the vice principal and Hal, a teacher
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