| Rating: | ★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Education |
The movie has allowed me to foresee the events inside the classroom if the teacher is under the influence or is taking drugs.
Elizabeth (Cameroon Diaz) is a foul-mouthed, ruthless, and inappropriate teacher. Why not! Because instead of teaching her students good manners and valuable lessons, she taught them nothing but pervertible instructions and film marathons instead of discussions. She had her shots of that-liquid-thing-in-the-bottle-called-drugs, got high and always anticipated the coming of the day’s end to have her way out of the school.
There are no bad students, just bad teachers. Henry Adams also puts that teachers affect eternity; no one can tell when his/her influence stops. If a teacher will teach his/her students which are not supposed to be taught but rather learn it in their own way, the child will remember it. Even, doing nothing is also jeopardizing learning and experience. Whatever happens to a student’s life, regardless of the family, it’s always a teacher factor.
Teachers should live on the teaching mantra “Live to teach” not on the other “Teach to live.” Money will come in its own way without us noticing it. Teaching and money are two different ideas. Money will change but teaching CAN change. There is no denying that we employed ourselves to a job because we want to earn, but in teaching, it’s perpetually opposite. Teachers who teach to earn do not aim to affect lives and make teaching noble. Instead, they make it stinky and slightly off kilter. Elizabeth has just do this, not until she realized what she did and that’s why she’s promoted to a higher rank – Guidance Counselor.
Back to teaching and earning, no teacher has ever made it to history as first millionaire or even made it to a first class status in the society. Teachers are famous of “London” – Loan Dito, Loan Doon. That is why, teachers suffer much on money problems rather than school stuffs. On the case of Elizabeth as a teacher, she had her own way of dealing money matters. Though she worked hard for it but it seemed she placed herself in peril by stealing stuffs, lying, sabotaging and couples of blackmailing just to get what she wanted – a bust operation.
There is nothing bad with working hard, but in teaching, it’s not about mere working hard, instead putting a heart in each lesson, dedicating your whole being in order your learners will get something from you that they could live on it. The realities in teaching do not just settle on the four corners of the classroom and of the inputs you have placed on each learner’s head, rather, it is on what you have taught to them on how are they going to face life’s cruelties, prepare them from the inevitable demands of the world and arm them with the weapons of knowledge they gleaned from your teaching.
Though we can also learn something from bad teachers, we will still land on the negative side of teaching.
Teachers are supposed to be good vibes. When all else are negative, whatever the circumstances may be, a teacher shall maintain optimism and shall marry both two sets of pairs: life and lessons, and students and learning.
A teacher should leave no stones unturned; rather, move them with glee and compassion. When Elizabeth had realized [at the ending part of the story] what it takes to live with purpose and teach with passion, I bet she rightfully deserved the school’s counselor’s office. That goes without saying she has morphed from a bad teacher to an at-least-no-so-good-yet-no-so-bad guidance counselor.
In teaching, drugs are still needed – the patience, passion and prudence drugs – necessary for effecting and valuable teaching and learning process.
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