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Film Review Of The Movie 'Blackboard Jungle'
Film Review of The Movie Blackboard Jungle This was an interesting movie about a man named Rick Dadier who is married to his wife Anne Dadier who is pregnant. Rick is a war veteran who lands a job teaching. Now this isn’t your ordinary teaching job because he has to teach a class of thugs who don’t listen. Rick is hired at a North Manual High School, which is a boys school. Now this is the first thing he is faced with as a new teacher at this school. As he is there he discovers that the rumors brought to his attention about student discipline are true. As a new teacher at North Manual High School all the more experienced teachers who have worked here for a longer period of time try to teach Rick and the other newer teachers here at this high

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