Chalk notes

-50% of teacher's quit within the first 3 years
-the movie shows the perspectives of many different teacher's
-most of the teachers are pretty new and having a tough time but rely on each other for support.
-the movie focuses on some of the hardships that teachers have such as-being home late-disruptive students-etc etc.
-the p.e. teacher is likes to make sure that the students and teachers follow the rules.
-the p.e. teacher is good at getting her students to believe that they are good at something even if they aren't that good, which causes them to have fun and do better.
-the assistant principle has a wide variety of things that she has to do including anything from paperwork to chasing students that aren't where they are supposed to be.
-the one of the history teacher's has a really rough time in the beginning of the year but reads some books and learns from the other teachers about classroom management.
-the history teacher tries to be overly friendly sometimes but he seems to be really good at teaching and getting his students to like him and do well.
-the other history teacher still has a hard time with teaching because he has bad social skills
-the teacher's are all very good friends
-even though the teachers are friends there are still grudges
-even though the history teacher has a good debate, and the students all liked him a lot he still didn't get teacher of the year.
-at the annual spelling hornet the other history teacher wins because his students help him learn some of the common slang before the competition
-by the end of the year the other history teacher has gotten to the point where his students respect him.
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after watching chalk the first thing that comes to mind when I think of things that should change about the school system is that teachers should get to Know the students and their parents instead of just teaching them (this already happens but i don't feel that it happens enough).