I am a teacher and I work in a classroom every day. I find the portrayal of class dynamics in this movie very unrealistic. It may make for a good movie and provokes the thought, but it is exaggerated. Maybe it is designed in such a way for a shock effect. However, real people, students or teachers, don't behave this way, in any neighborhood.
On one hand, we have the students, who are bursting with vile, anger, frustration, and who are downright mean to the teacher, basically all the time. I don't think a class exists on this planet where the students behave in such an extreme way all the time, in every class.
Of course, everything that we see in this movie has happened, and likely happens many times, in many countries, in many neighborhoods. However, the amount of it that happens in this movie, in one hour, in every lecture, is not realistic. In a real setting, the teacher would simply not be able to take it. Nobody can take such constant interruptions, the constant lewd comments, the downright hostility to the teacher, even physical threats, and stay composed and serious and positive like the teacher in this movie.
At some point, the teacher calls the students "skunks". This is after the two students that sat on the committee (and acted inappropriately the entire time, by interrupting, making noise, etc) totally told the rest of the class about these presumably private discussions among the faculty members. Yet, the students are never reprimanded for this. How is this not in itself seen as a serious infraction, when clearly faculty discussions are confidential when evaluating students, comparing them to each other, and discussing whether someone should be expelled?
Even worse, the two students lied to Suleyman, claiming that the teacher tried to diss him at the meeting, when in reality, he tried saving him (and other teachers tried to expel him). It makes no sense.. why are the two students so mean, so insensitive, that they even lie to their own classmate about what the teacher actually said or tried to do.
Teacher's reaction makes no sense either. Every real teacher would point out to the private nature of the conversations at the meeting. Every real teacher, when sensed that Suleyman is being misled by his peers, would point out that he tried saving him. But not this teacher. Even more strangely, the one word "skunk" that this teacher uttered (and even that one in a mild context), is taken by the students as some crown proof of teacher abuse -- after they themselves have been 100x more abusive. And it even flies with the other teachers, with the headmaster, and they get our teacher into trouble. Sorry.. real schools, real people don't work and behave in this way.
On the other hand, we have the nearly perfect assembly of teachers, who are somehow able to take all of this constant abuse and still act perfectly reasonable. They are having their perfect conversations, like a group of perfect academics, about what to do with the students. I don't think real people, real teachers behave like that. In such a hostile environment, real teachers either quit, or become jaded, or they stop caring. But they don't take such enormous amounts of abuse in daily, and still continue with such perfect dialogs, analysis, and intentions.
So for me, both the students and teachers in this movie are mis-represented. The students are too evil, and the teachers are too perfect.
On one hand, we have the students, who are bursting with vile, anger, frustration, and who are downright mean to the teacher, basically all the time. I don't think a class exists on this planet where the students behave in such an extreme way all the time, in every class.
Of course, everything that we see in this movie has happened, and likely happens many times, in many countries, in many neighborhoods. However, the amount of it that happens in this movie, in one hour, in every lecture, is not realistic. In a real setting, the teacher would simply not be able to take it. Nobody can take such constant interruptions, the constant lewd comments, the downright hostility to the teacher, even physical threats, and stay composed and serious and positive like the teacher in this movie.
At some point, the teacher calls the students "skunks". This is after the two students that sat on the committee (and acted inappropriately the entire time, by interrupting, making noise, etc) totally told the rest of the class about these presumably private discussions among the faculty members. Yet, the students are never reprimanded for this. How is this not in itself seen as a serious infraction, when clearly faculty discussions are confidential when evaluating students, comparing them to each other, and discussing whether someone should be expelled?
Even worse, the two students lied to Suleyman, claiming that the teacher tried to diss him at the meeting, when in reality, he tried saving him (and other teachers tried to expel him). It makes no sense.. why are the two students so mean, so insensitive, that they even lie to their own classmate about what the teacher actually said or tried to do.
Teacher's reaction makes no sense either. Every real teacher would point out to the private nature of the conversations at the meeting. Every real teacher, when sensed that Suleyman is being misled by his peers, would point out that he tried saving him. But not this teacher. Even more strangely, the one word "skunk" that this teacher uttered (and even that one in a mild context), is taken by the students as some crown proof of teacher abuse -- after they themselves have been 100x more abusive. And it even flies with the other teachers, with the headmaster, and they get our teacher into trouble. Sorry.. real schools, real people don't work and behave in this way.
On the other hand, we have the nearly perfect assembly of teachers, who are somehow able to take all of this constant abuse and still act perfectly reasonable. They are having their perfect conversations, like a group of perfect academics, about what to do with the students. I don't think real people, real teachers behave like that. In such a hostile environment, real teachers either quit, or become jaded, or they stop caring. But they don't take such enormous amounts of abuse in daily, and still continue with such perfect dialogs, analysis, and intentions.
So for me, both the students and teachers in this movie are mis-represented. The students are too evil, and the teachers are too perfect.