What’s Aged the Worst?
Title; parents depicted as not wanting their kids in school
In the discussion (6)
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- The title is disliked: "Dangerous Minds" is imagined as a Simpson-Bruckheimer whiteboard mash-up, with a joke that it should have been spelled with a Z.
- The low-talking principal played by Courtney B. Vance is disliked; another participant counters that administrators really do talk like that.
- One participant says it aged terribly and was offensive that the Black parents are shown not caring whether their kids stay in school, as in Lean on Me; he says he has never seen a mother or grandmother who did not want her sons in school.
- The same participant objects to the pregnant girl's mother scene, saying families try to keep pregnant girls in school.
- The host reports that LouAnne Johnson liked the film but was upset by the twins' grandmother insulting the teacher; she said she had a good relationship with that woman, both twins graduated, and the filmmakers told her they assumed parents resented her for being white.
- The host says Johnson semi-disowned the film and bought back her life rights to tell her own version.