Schooled

20072007
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1h 28m

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An earthy character study about a teacher in crisis who discovers an alternative school that teaches him to connect with kids as people.An earthy character study about a teacher in crisis who discovers an alternative school that teaches him to connect with kids as people.An earthy character study about a teacher in crisis who discovers an alternative school that teaches him to connect with kids as people.

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Writer-director, Brooks Elms, [right] focuses on character details with with Vladimir Borges[left] and Daniel Kucan [middle].

At The Kids' School, it's one person, one vote, no matter how old you are.

At The Kids' School, teachers (Vladimir Borges) have serious conversations with students (R-Jay Sharpe)

At The Kids' School, a visiting traditional teacher, Mr. Fred Hill (Daniel Kucan) struggles to see kids as equals.

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For research, Brooks Elms repeatedly listened to hours upon hours of recorded lectures by the founders of The Sudbury Valley School, as well as reading almost all of the dozen books they've published about the school.

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Schooled is a great film because of its look at how we treat young people in this country. It addresses our fundamentally flawed public school system and shows a real-life alternative that is working for lots of free kids. Go see it and get schooled yourself.

As far as the film as entertainment, it's not perfect. The storyline is a little confusing. I'm still not sure about some of the key points of the teacher's life and sometimes I couldn't tell if we were flashing back. That having been said, there are some really phenomenal scenes in this movie. The acting (especially the supporting cast) was truly superb at times. And after all, the basic storyline is fresh, which is entertaining in itself.

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