Word: teacher
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...portly special-ed teacher from Philadelphia is in prison in Honduras now, but once upon a time, as his diary relates, Daniel Gary Rounds was in "paradise." His paradise lies beyond the prison gates and through the storm-ravaged Honduran countryside. Just outside the local Pizza Hut in the town of La Ceiba, boys addicted to sniffing glue work the streets until gringos offer to buy them shoes or let the boys watch TV in their hotel rooms. For many it is a chance to take their first hot shower or get the $10 they need to buy several weeks...
...been raised too high? Some teachers and parents complain that the tests are too exhaustive--and exhausting--for young students. The Massachusetts test clocked in at 16 hours, spread over several weeks. Tina Yalen, an eighth-grade civics teacher, gave her opinion of the Virginia test: "Some of it looked like Trivial Pursuit to me." More worrisome is how a 10-year-old will react if his or her result is branded with a scarlet F. Says Harvard's Reville: "An overload of negative feedback runs the risk that students are going to shut down and not make an effort...
...Teachers have it made. They get to send students to detention, assign homework and give tests. They can issue commands like "compare and contrast" and watch their charges squirm. There is but one drawback to wielding such power: the daunting task of grading essays. For every student who pulls an all-nighter wading through Great Expectations, there is a teacher who has to slog through dozens of tortured expositions on the symbolism of Miss Havisham's aborted wedding feast...
...school's already frightening football coach (Terminator 2's Robert Patrick), a horde of alien parasites rapidly takes over the faculty of a small town high school in Midwestern America. The fun doesn't stop there, of course; these aliens have dreams of world domination--after all the teachers have been "commuted" it's time to conquer the student body. When an alien-possessed history teacher tells his class that today's exam will consist of "writing down the names of all your living relatives," audience members have a sneaking suspicion that these relatives won't be human (or "living...
...gripping moments in this film to satisfy anyone looking for a scare. As fun as these horror scenes are, however, the real entertainment of The Faculty lies in its selfmocking humor. In one deliciously droll scene, the entire faculty, possessed by those very, very thirsty aliens, sits in the teacher's lounge drinking down coolers full of water in slow motion...