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...rather regret something I did," she says, eyes welling with tears, "than regret something I didn't do." For her, sitting in a classroom biting her tongue and waiting to graduate when college wasn't necessarily in her future was a form of inaction. Working, saving money, starting her adult life--that was taking the initiative...
...Instead of racial tensions, the conflicts here are tribal: classroom cliques of jocks, nerds, skateboarders, cheerleaders. The movie suggests that, by junior year, kids are pigeon-holed in their groups, afraid to explore other, ornery dreams. Like white-collar wage slaves, but 30 years too early, they are undergoing a mid-teen crisis. The received wisdom (voiced in the most irresistible of the movie's nine radio-friendly songs) is to "Stick to the stuff you know... Stick to the status quo." Yet a few kids harbor subversive ambitions. The inner Troy wants to try out for the school musical...
...CityStep instructors will perform the final dance, which was choreographed by the six classroom directors...
...chasing the jobs. There are now four or five cities the size of Cleveland, Ohio, sitting right next door, and 25 years from now as much as 40% of the entire Mexican population may be living on the border. The region is Mexico's economic engine, a huge commercial classroom where the unskilled workers who were making gauze eye patches in 1980 now make ATMs and modems and the most popular Sony color TV sold...
Economist Juliet Schor, who at the First Parish Church conceded to being incredibly afraid to enter a Harvard classroom, articulates upon ideas of family spending and leisure time in “Global Values 101.” Her ultimate message to students: “Do not sell your soul for some purpose. Do something that you really believe is really right...