Up the Down Staircase (1967)

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school	student
teacher	new york
class	staircase
book	new york city
bureaucracy	high school
female protagonist	unrequited love
ghetto	school life
puerto rican	reference to william shakespeare
friendship	idealist
dedicated teacher	hammer
against the system	slum
generation gap	reference to shakespeare's macbeth
fire alarm	teacher student relationship
culture clash	urban setting
african american	cap and gown
teacher hero	love letter
juvenile delinquent	seduction
instructor	suicide
fish out of water	education
confrontation	actor shares full name with character
poverty	schoolteacher
crisis of conscience	jumping from a window
attempted suicide	transformation
racism	high school student
independent film	based on novel

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