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Reporting In the video, Dangerous Minds, a class of challenged students has a history of scaring teachers away. The students come from mostly low-income families and their main concern is survival on the streets; they don't believe they are understood. Their new teacher (played by Michelle Pfiefer) wants to overcome their disadvantages and give hope to their future. She enters the class with little lesson plans, no structure, and is expected to follow the school curriculum exactly. She even gets a warning by the principle when she tries innovative and unconventional ways to stimulate the children to learn by making connections with them and their lives. The room environment was plain and the students were disrespectful, did not follow rules, and had negative attitude