Chalk Scenes Related to Friere and Gatto's points of view.

The scene at the beginning where Mr. Lowrey is telling the students to give descriptions of words and sentences that are written on the chalk board was a good comparison to Freire’s “Banking method” where he says that the teacher is the depositor and the student is the depositee. The scene shows the strict relationship that goes into that style of teaching. The scene where the students phone rings 3 times in class and Mr. Lowrey screams at him and kicks him out of the classroom while other students laugh compares to Gatto’s view that the students and teachers get bored with the communist style teaching system(as Gatto would call it) that has become the public school system. Another scene which shows this same boredom is the scene where Ms. Webb is breaking up a fight by screaming outside the school and yells at the on looking students for watching. This can show that fights are an effect of the boredom the kids feel at the school. The on lookers were also getting excitement they were otherwise most likely lacking. Gatto seems to be anti-one-size-fits-all in his teaching preferences and that can relate to the scene in Chalk where Mr. Stroope complains to a student about his use of big words confusing other students (as well as himself) as the other students are not on his level academically. This, to me, shows holding a student back from using his potential but also keeps the other students from the possibility of learning something new. To me, Friere’s view of the banking method of teaching can be demonstrated in the scene of Chalk where Ms. Webb is talking to the camera and she says that she tells students that they are good at something that they are not so they will think they are and hopefully rise to the challenge. An alternate way to do that may have been to try something else they are good at, and teach them using what they are good at to get better at what they aren’t. Close to the end of the movie where Mr. Lowrey, arguably having become the best teacher at the school because of trial and error, decides he may not come back, to me relates to Gatto’s story of being ostracized from the system for his outside-the-box teaching methods.