Detachment is a movie that illustrates the lives of several high school teachers, administrators, and students as interpreted by a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes. Henry Barthes, a disengaged substitute teacher with a troubled past, ends up getting called to a public school where an apathetic student body and misguided parents have created a frustrated and angry group of teachers and administrators. Although he shuns emotional connections, and never stays long enough in one district to bond with his students or colleagues. Barthes’ inadvertently, becomes a role model to his students and bonds with a teenage runaway who is just as lost as he is. This movie showcases the frustration that administrators and teachers have to deal with when
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It seeks to raise awareness of the bleakness of the education system as well. It sets the idea that administrators only care about kids that bring in revenue (high test scores), rather than helping them to better themselves. Blaming the kids for being lost causes, rather than trying to figure out how to actually deal with them. They are far too focused on dealing with students who are naturally good with school, than trying to mold and treat everyone as if they all have potential. As said by Andreas Schleicher, in the Ted talks video shown in class, the US educational system deals with students only with skill, if you’re not “born” with it, you best find a different career route. This idea is shown explicitly when the principal gets a call from faculty offices explaining how it is useless to teach these kids since they are bound to go nowhere. While he is saying this in a frustrated and angry manner, one of Hitler’s rally speeches gets juxtaposed with the scene. One can deduce that the director was trying to make it evident that the school system only wants high quality students; they do not have time to deal with students who score “below average” or are falling behind. One can even go to the extent and say the education system in the movie is a parable to Hitler’s regime - One that promotes eugenics, letting the minorities fall even deeper in between the cracks, rather than trying to find ways to correct their
It seeks to raise awareness of the bleakness of the education system as well. It sets the idea that administrators only care about kids that bring in revenue (high test scores), rather than helping them to better themselves. Blaming the kids for being lost causes, rather than trying to figure out how to actually deal with them. They are far too focused on dealing with students who are naturally good with school, than trying to mold and treat everyone as if they all have potential. As said by Andreas Schleicher, in the Ted talks video shown in class, the US educational system deals with students only with skill, if you’re not “born” with it, you best find a different career route. This idea is shown explicitly when the principal gets a call from faculty offices explaining how it is useless to teach these kids since they are bound to go nowhere. While he is saying this in a frustrated and angry manner, one of Hitler’s rally speeches gets juxtaposed with the scene. One can deduce that the director was trying to make it evident that the school system only wants high quality students; they do not have time to deal with students who score “below average” or are falling behind. One can even go to the extent and say the education system in the movie is a parable to Hitler’s regime - One that promotes eugenics, letting the minorities fall even deeper in between the cracks, rather than trying to find ways to correct their