A small-town teacher relocates to one of the country's toughest classrooms.A small-town teacher relocates to one of the country's toughest classrooms.A small-town teacher relocates to one of the country's toughest classrooms.
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- 6 wins & 17 nominations total
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- TriviaThis movie earned Matthew Perry his first Golden Globe nomination.
- GoofsThe position of Ron's umbrella while talking to Marissa outside the state building.
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Principal Turner: These kids are at the bottom of the barrel.
Ron Clark: Don't talk about them like that.
Principal Turner: Now all I'm asking is for your students to pass.
Ron Clark: Oh every one of my students will pass.
Principal Turner: [inaudible, students commenting outside office] They can become someone else's problem.
Ron Clark: The problem isn't the kids. It's not even what they can achieve. The problem is what you expect them to achieve. You are setting the bar here. Why? Set it up here! They can make it.
Principal Turner: This community judges us by scores. Government funding judges us by scores. People who give me scores, they get my respect.
Ron Clark: Okay good. In May, they'll all test at grade level.
Principal Turner: [sighs] I don't see how that's possible.
Ron Clark: Excuse me. Did I say grade level? I meant above grade level.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2007)
- SoundtracksThe Presidents' Rap
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Performed by Matthew Perry and the School Children
The movie is about Ron Clark casted by Matthew Perry who took on a class in Brooklyn NY. In the beginning the kids had a pretty hard time accepting Mr. Clark and did all kind of annoying things just to break him, but after a while they accepted him one by one and they all started to love him instead of hating him, and they also learned how to like school and like to learn something instead of hating it.
I have plans to be a future teacher one day, and I can just say that this movie made me want to be a teacher even more, to see the joy in the kids eyes when they like how you teach them in all kind of different ways just makes me happy.
I can really recommend this movie, it's fun, it's sad and it's just overall a great movie
please excuse my bad English, I'm from Sweden so ;)
// Linus
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