Last week film we watched was high school, tittle being pretty much self-expiatory it took place in a high school in Philadelphia. Purpose of the film was to document the everyday life of what goes on in high school, from students getting sent to the dean’s office to student assemblies’ to classroom environment. Even though the times were different back then I did see some parts of the film that still goes on in high school today. For example one student gets sent to the dean’s office for punching another student in the face. Student reasoning for punching the other student was he was bothering him. The dean who actually my favorite character just because he reminded me of my old dean in my high school was swift and quick to his point and had zero tolerance for fighting and gave the student who punch the other student detention. With that being said there were some other parts of the film that doesn’t ,well at least I can say from my experience from high school that doesn’t go on now that went on back then. For example how boys and girls are given social roles, the old fashion American dream men make the money to bring home to his wife and women job is to use the money pay bills, cook and clean. Its more common now then I think in any other time period in our country’s history for children/young adults to have been brought up in a single parent house hold, whether that be a single mother or father. Witch forces man or women to be more dependent finical wise anyway witch in my opinion is good and kind of glade we drove away from that thinking that the man in the relationship has to bring in the income while woman stays home. One last difference I noticed from this day in age to back then was the meetings that went on for the kid’s future. I feel it’s great that school actually sits down with the students’ parents to talk about college education. Although faculty in the school doesn’t really cater to the students goals outside of school. If your goal didn’t involve you going to college the faculty would make you seem like a disappointment. For example there one student instead of going to college her dream was to do make up. Instead of encouraging her to pursue that dream the consular pretty much tries to make her look bad, doesn’t help either when the father in the room not backing up his daughter. I understand that we all want what’s best for our kids and you feel sending them to college is what’s best , I also feel it’s important to listen and support your kids goals. That being said I feel high school was pretty good documentary and give nice viewpoints of an everyday life in school.
This was a very interesting post about last week’s documentary. I like how you touched on what you interpreted the purpose of the documentary and then told us why it was similar or different comparing then to now. It was kind of nostalgic to see the fighting students and remember things like that happening in my high school and the deans having absolutely no tolerance for it. A lot of the deans back in high school were very interactive with the students, learning who they were, what they enjoyed but still maintaining a professional learning environment with adults you can trust.
I also agree with the difference you talked about because the way things were before were very stereotyped that the man would bring home the income and the woman handled that, cooking and the kids. The time we live in now is definitely a more “single parent” generation as both genders are much more equal as they were then and morals/ethics allow women to pursue whatever they want to just as much as men. I think that the whole depending on the man for financial help is stressful for both people because, he has to make that money, she doesn’t know if hes going to make it in time, one party may feel one sided that they’re doing more or too little. It just seems to bring up a lot more issues opposed to now where either parent can help with anything through communication, resources with their own combined input of morals/ethics of how these types of things should be done.
I felt the same way about the whole college idea too. That their time of society wanted their kids to pursue college and if you didn’t, you were looked at differently. The girl who wanted to pursue make-up instead of college was a great example. There was no need to make the girl feel like society’s lowest for doing something she loves. Yes, it’s great to encourage your children to get an education for the long run, yes an education is great, no you should not make your own child feel like garbage for getting the courage to tell people she wants to do the outside of the norm of society. Altogether, nice post I really enjoyed and agreed with the points and input why you made those points.