The Ruling Classroom

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• Posted 08/01/09 by Richard Scott
  The technical problem mentioned by Ms. Runyon has been fixed. I believe this to be an excellent production in that it took many facets of the 4th grade schoolroom experience and explored each side with sensitivity and fairness. Many levels were explored such as from the principal's viewpoint, the (main) teacher's, the students', the parents' (by hearsay), and the teacher at the center of the controversy (again, by hearsay). While it left some interesting questions open in this reviewer's mind concerning how this type of exercise could have been carried out more efficiently, I believe the most important thing to come out of the entire project was the statement by the student at the very end when asked to share his feelings upon reflecting on the entire experience.
• Posted 04/09/09 by Kristin Runyon
  The Ruling Classroom will not run for the entire 57 minutes. about 2/3 or 3/4 of the way through, a gray screen with a typed advertisement for First Coast Academy appears. It does not end; there is a closing X in the top right corner, but when it is clicked the movie returns to the beginning. Is there any way around this ad or any way to "fix" the movie. I am a classroom teacher and plan to use this in my lessons.