Teachers

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Teachers

Teachers is a 1984 dramatic comedy based in John F. Kennedy High School, and

all of those who teach, and learn from it. The theme of the movie “Teachers” is about

how this school system neglected it’s students, and corrupted the school systems and

policies. The movie touches on many controversial subjects, such as statutory rape, teen

pregnancies, abortions, mental institutions, illiteracy, and prosecution against school

administration. Legal issues that I decided to write about in my essay are statutory rape,

possession of a loaded weapon, theft, and sexual association.


In this movie, a legal issue comes across, when a gym teacher has sex with several

of his female students. Three of the girls he had relations with, became pregnant. This

issue is statutory rape, which is sexual activity between two people which would

otherwise be legal if one person wasn’t a minor. All of the students that the gym teacher

had intercourse with were under the age of consent, thus making this a legal case of

statutory rape. The school did it’s best to try and cover up these events, and neglected

these students when they needed help the most.


A teacher in the school was carelessly carrying a gun in her briefcase, endangering

the lives of hundreds of students. She would check on it during lunch breaks, until one

day it was stolen by a student from her briefcase. This is illegal and called possession of a

loaded weapon. This teachers ignorance and stupidity caused a troubled boy to be shot

and killed by a police officer after he refused to hand the gun over.


Another legal issue in this movie “Teachers” is theft. Eddie (played by Ralph

Macchio)

and one of his cronies have a strange hobby of stealing cars. They steal a vehicle which

belonged to a teacher, and later on in the film, steal a driving school student car. This

issue is theft,...