Maybe it's me but Roberta was downright MEAN
What a witch! The way she handled those kids and her little comments here and there. My Lord, I was sorta turned off at times. LOL.
shareShe is a music teacher. A good teacher is strict, which most people these days see as "mean". I am also a music teacher (piano) and I have to be firm with my students. If I'm not, the kids get nowhere. Did you not notice that scene when she tried to be nice and they were all confused and uncomfortable. She started being "mean" again and they were happy. Kids WANT discipline and structure!
shareOf course she was. She had to be harsh and strict, it was the only way to reach them, to be effective. As a teacher, that's the necessary approach you have to take with little kids like these, to organize them. She was fair, at least. Just like a coach has to be "mean" to his team, to drive them. Just like Kurt Russell in "Miracle," or Denzel Washington in "Remember the Titans," or Morgan Freeman in "Lean On Me." Tough love is not pleasant, but it's sometimes necessary. In one scene, she kicked out a little boy, to make an example to the others. Just like Morgan Freeman did in Lean On Me, when he expelled those boys on the stage, or (if this can count as an example) Patrick Swayze, when he fired two employees during that meeting in "Road House."
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