Academy Awards, USA 1994
| Won Oscar | Best Documentary, Features Susan Raymond Alan Raymond |
Home Box Office
Directed by Susan Raymond
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
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(DVD, Docurama)
This documentary looks at the day-to-day life inside a tough Philadelphia inner city elementary school. Its principal must strike a balance between discipline and creating a learning environment, not easy with so many of its students prone to acting out, or worse violence. We get to know the home life of some of the students, most from single parent homes living in abject poverty. The principal makes a moving plea for equality in funding these schools, one which has mostly fallen on deaf ears I'm afraid.
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