Derrick - And Urban Learning Environments

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Free Circle Films

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Depicts the pitiful conditions of urban public schools and the indifference, boredom, and unhappiness which result. Shows how bright, sensitive children are crushed by an impersonal urban school system. Candid scenes, taken in classrooms by the teacher-producers of the film are juxtaposed with motion picture footage of a Black boy named Derrick, on an errand to the grocery store for his mother.