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Talk:Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies (view source)
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:Don't know about that. Doesn't ''187'' portray [[public schools]] as a victim, rather than the cause of the problems?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 19:26, 16 February 2014 (EST)
:Don't know about that. Doesn't ''187'' portray [[public schools]] as a victim, rather than the cause of the problems?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 19:26, 16 February 2014 (EST)
I suppose one could see it that way. And obviously in real life I detest Samuel Jackson's radical racial politics. I don't remember much whining in the film about more money being the solution or celebration of teacher's unions. To me the overriding message was that we have degenerate youth in this country who wish to be decadent and apathetic and do not value a good education and a teacher who believes that students should be motivated and want to learn has finally had enough. Thomas Sowell has discussed the youth in inner city schools who actually want to learn being denied that by the thugs ruining the learning environment or because they get beat up for wanting to achieve. The film captures this unacceptable state of affairs wonderfully. That part struck a chord with me as a conservative. I certainly didn't see apologia for the public school system going on. The lack of discipline and the complicity of bureaucratic nonentities is thoroughly critiqued. Obviously, I would agree with you that breaking the public school government created monopoly is the solution. But this film as I see it is more about the problem than the solution. --[[User:Burkean|Burkean]] 21:15, 16 February 2014 (EST)