How about The Outsiders (Coppola) Rumble Fish (Coppola) The Breakfast Club (it's Hollywood, but draws stereotypes reasonably effectively) Lucas (it must be 9 years old, I think it stars Corey Haims and I don't remember how real it is. After all, I think Charlie Sheen is in it, too.) School Ties (about a private school and antisemitism and football -- so it may seem inappropriate to B.C. (I teach there, too) but I think it brings up real questions about school pressures to perform, to belong, to participate and to adapt, and I think it would work.) Dead Poets Society (obviously more Hollywood, but it glorifies poetry and Walt Whitman and creative interactive teaching - so I'd look at it for other values.) Shari L. Rosenblum