Frederick Wiseman ventures inside a large city high school - the most everyday of American institutions - where lessons range from debates on existentialism to a simulated space flight. Assembled with dry humour, a series of formal and informal encounters between teachers, students, parents and administrators shows how education is steeped in the passing on of social and moral values.
Frederick Wiseman ventures inside a large city high school - the most everyday of American institutions - where lessons range from debates on existentialism to a simulated space flight. Assembled with dry humour, a series of formal and informal encounters between teachers, students, parents and administrators shows how education is steeped in the passing on of social and moral values.
