Selasa, 30 Juni 2015
Study analysis of Western Culture, educational culture in film:
Bad Teacher
Bad
Teacher is An American Comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan and was released in
2011, June 24th at United State. Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) is
a bad and immoral teacher who teaches in Jams School. A woman who loves to get drunk and smoke
marijuana teaches badly in a junior high school. For every meeting she only
gave videos or films to watch in class while she sleeps. She was indifferent
toward everything, does not care to everyone. She always speaks badly/crudely,
curses to her students. She quit for her job after a year be a teacher in Jams
school under the reason marriage planning party. She teaches only for waiting
her marriage to the wealthy fiancé. But before that happen her future
mother-in-law asked her son to finish their relationship, because she know that
Halsey only after the money.
Three
months later Halsey back to her job, be a teacher again, precisely in Jams
school. Almost the same manner moreover the worst. Now she tries to win a man
heart, also a wealthy, the wealthy teacher exactly, Scott Delacorte (Justin
Timberlake). She plans to get surgery to enlarge her breast and become more
motivated because she looks that Scott’s ex-girlfriend has large breast too.
But she must competes with the over enthusiastic teacher Amy (Lucy Punch).
While a gym teacher, Russell Gettis (Jason Segel) makes it clear that he is
interested in Halsey. But she is not interested in him.
To
create her surgery plan she should pay almost $10.000, but does not have as
much as that money. She does everything included join the Saturday car wash
day, a school yearly program for class 7th. Amy tried to warn the
principle that Halsey embezzlement money. But he ignored her because she can’t
prove the accusation. Amy also report about Halsey’s ignoring school rules,
consumed marijuana etc.
Feels her planning to win Scott doesn’t
go well, she tries to get $5.700 by making the class to get the highest score
at test which always Amy claimed in 2 years recently. After getting this
information from Lyn, her college, she paid more attention to the class. She
starts the quiz every day, every meeting, and makes punish to who cannot answer
the questions. But hell yeah, she got that prize of $5.700. By illegal way,
copying the questions, cheated the state exam.
Amy
gets poisoned by an apple that Halsey put on her table. Elizabeth (Halsey)
followed the spring field trip, a school program that actually Amy become a
supervisor but Halsey took her position. Amy gets annoyed. At night she tried
to seduce Scott, making a phone call, leave a message to Amy’s number send
their voice. She got mad at her, her suspicion to Halsey become more and more.
She tried to discover Halsey’s secret by
changing her table with Halsey’s. After opened her drawer she got a wig, and
found that Halsey took a copied of the exam questions by contacting Carl
Halabi, Illinois, Province Standard Exam Officer. She immediately report this
case to the principal. But without prove the principal will dismiss it. So she
contacts Carl, investigate him. After a long spring field trip, they’re back to
school. There were Halsey being interrogated by principal and a council. But
when Carl, be the witness, explain that he was wrong with his last statement to
miss. Amy. He got drunk at that time. This is because Halsey sent him a
black-mail to Carl using his embarrassing photos, and will share all these
photos if he tells the fact about her. So, Halsey released.
Not only that. Halsey knows that her
table had been changed by Amy. So she said about teacher who consumes drugs.
When the police arrive and bring their sniffer dog, they find Halsey’s
oxy-contin pills and Marijuana in Amy’s table. Amy is arrested and transferred to
the worst school by superintendent, in Malcom-X school.
At the end, Scott tried to start over
again with Halsey, but she rejects him. When the new school year starts she is
kinder to her co-worker, and tried to make relationship with Russell. Cancel
her breast enlargement surgery, because she feels find by the ways she is. She
got new position in school as a guidance counselor.
The strong characters that Halsey has in
this movie would be discussed in here. In this movie Halsey, the school teacher
has bad manner teaching her students. This makes shameful to education level
especially teacher. Doing drugs in front of the class, sleeps while teaches in
the class, and only shows movie to the student in every meeting. She does not
care to the education itself. Speak crudely, by unsuitable words to the
children.
About
American Education.
Americans
“believe in” education. This country
has maintained schools from the time of the very earliest settlement. Most of
us would probably agree that education helps us to earn a better living and
believe that good education is necessary for maintaining our individual
freedoms and for general human and economic welfare. (Education in American
Society: 3-4)
American
Education in the twentieth Century.
The
American high school has change greatly within the past fifty years.
In the past, every child is an
individual, different from all other children. In the classroom they cannot be
treated in exactly the same way or taught by identical method. Public expects
the teachers to understand how they grow and how they learn and to be able to
recognize many differences among them. Until the twentieth century it was not
considered essential for teacher to know very much about child psychology. Many
people even today think that the whole purpose of education is to “train the
mind.” (283)
From the statement above, we know that
school, education area, or teacher not only to teach children or students but
also educate them included their personality and their manner. This is so
different look between what in concept and what reality brings out. Nowadays
teacher only do their job as teacher which is to teach student. Without know
what kind of education they need. Therefore, recently many criminals increase
year by year moreover day by day.
Johann Friedrich Herbart, a German
university professor. He believed that real morality grows out of a sense of
duty which everyone acquires who gains a complete and accurate knowledge of the
world. This closely resembles the belief of Socrates that “knowledge is
virtue”- thorough understanding of nature and mankind will lead the individual
to choose virtue as the best way of life. (284-285)
By this fact, Halsey did not do the
right things in teaching, moreover she made a bad look in education. Is
Elizabeth Halsey educated enough? If no, why she could fulfill the requirements
to be a teacher? What standard that Jams school or American School choosing and
accepting a teacher? This seems like American has weak in administrative in education
area.
Good teachers are necessary if we are to
have a good school. Indeed, no other factor in American education-neither the
buildings and facilities, nor the curriculum, nor the quality of
administration, nor the support of the tax players-is quite so important as
having teachers who are intelligent, hard-working, and highly skilled in
profession. (403)
Recruitment of teachers has been
haphazard. A weakness in the profession has been the lack of careful methods of
selecting those to be admitted to teacher training. In education there has been
much less effort on the part of teachers to screen out unpromising candidates
for teachers education of to establish higher standards for membership in the
profession itself. Certification or licensing protects the children from
teachers with insufficient preparation and ability for their work. (407-415)
I personally think this film is so less
in education, jokes that they played are adult jokes. And for me these jokes
not funny at all. I didn’t find myself laugh in particularly joke, although
this is a kind of drama comedy. The movie which produced by Jimmy Miller and
David Housholter is seems only focus in Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Lucy
Punch and Jason Segel popularity which for me did not really sell.
Elizabeth Halsey got her aim not through
the right ways. She shows bad manners in teaching, relation between students
and co-workers. Provides American bad cultures just like as drugs, crude,
greedy for money. But in the end although she became a good one, found her
love, love herself by the way she is, but what I do not agree is the way she
got them. Bad ways.
SOURCE
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Miller, Jimmy
(produced), David Householter (Produced), Jake Kasdan (Directed). (2011). Bad
Teacher. [File]. United State. Columbia Pictures. Movie
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Hillway, Tyrus.
Education in American Society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1961.
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