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My Top 10 High School Movies

You might think that being a high school teacher would make watching movies about high school unbearable, but it’s quite the opposite.   I’ve always enjoyed seeing how movies portray high school life on the big screen.   Here are my favorites: 10. Mean Girls.   I am so glad that I was never a high school girl.   This movie is terrific, really funny, and sadly I have seen real-life versions of pretty much every character in this movie. 9. The Class.   I’m pretty sure this won’t be on anyone else’s top 10 list, but it is fascinating.   It’s a French movie, based on an autobiography of a guy who spent a year as a language teacher in Paris.   It’s shot in a documentary style, starring the guy who wrote the book, and to be honest, when I watched it I thought it was a documentary.   Everything about it is incredibly real, and you can tell that the experiences portrayed in the movie are based on things that actually happened.   The guy isn’t a great teacher, but he has some good qual