To Be & To Have (Etre et Avoir) Education Movie Reviews

[wonderrwonder]

Your analysis is so off-base, I keep thinking you must be joking. The way M. Lopez handles his students' conflicts is different than the way an American teacher would: it's better. Rather than being the disciplinarian, he speaks to the students as though they are rational and capable of monitoring themselves. He speaks to their sense of community and to their conscience, and reminds them that it's not about how they behave in school but how they're treating their fellow human beings.

[DonBerg]

@wonderrwonder

I agree that he handles conflict both differently and better than what we expect in America, but my analysis was not about how he handled the conflict. My analysis was about the way that the system set him and his students up for conflicts. It's ridiculous that M. Lopez is in a position in which he feels that making Jojo do a coloring page is worth that much emotional blackmail. Both M. Lopez and Jojo have been denied their autonomy in this situation.