After 30 years of teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner-city school proves to be too much to resist.After 30 years of teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner-city school proves to be too much to resist.After 30 years of teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner-city school proves to be too much to resist.
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- TriviaThe math teacher, Rob Doerr (Joe Forbrich), makes a reference to Blackboard Jungle (1955)--in which Sidney Poitier starred as a juvenile delinquent.
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Mark Thackeray: What we saw yesterday is that to a considerable extent, we control how we are perceived. "Yo!" gets you one response; "Excuse me, sir," another. When we address someone with respect, we are more often than likely to GET respect--not always, but more often than you think, and if you're smart, that ought to be enough. Common courtesy--"please", "thank you", "excuse me"... magical words, magical words.
- ConnectionsFeatured in A Devil in Spain: An Interview with Judy Geeson (2015)
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- Mar 30, 2004