An apathetic elementary school teacher learns the true meaning of her role when she and her student become victims of a violent pair of intruders.

A young, optimist white teacher in New York takes a job at an all-Black school, determined to break through to his students and properly teach them, despite being stuck in a school system that has continually failed them.

A young boy and his classmates meet Ms. Ferenczi, a strange substitute teacher with intense travel stories and peculiar mathematical theories to share. However, her comments become controversial and the children must decide if they want her around the classroom.

A sheriff tries to figure out where the schoolchildren have disappeared to after a shooting.

In a society where civilians are monitored by personality tests that surveil whether they are being perfect citizens, a 1970s high school teacher meets an over-achieving student who forces him to confront the forced boredom dominating his own life.

After one of her young low-income students shows up to class disheveled, a female teacher from Chicago makes it her mission to create a strong bond with the girl in hopes it will prevent her from dropping out of school.

After taking sudden interest in one of his students, a disgruntled New York public school teacher realizes his assumptions about the apathy of his class are completely wrong.

Having poured 53 years of her life into the creation of a refined girl’s school, principal Miss Bird despairs in the changing of the times and gradual sapping of her powers into the hands of a new board, finally slapping the daughter of the chairman in the face in her all-consuming anger.

A class of high schoolers attempt to perform a psychological experiment on their teacher who has just lost his wife and daughter in a terrible accident. However, the leader of the experiment seems to be performing a study all his own.

A schoolteacher at a newly desegregated Southern school agonizes over whether to turn a Black student in for the murder of a white boy in an alley fight, in order to prevent a white mob from murdering the student's friends and family. The Black student explains he didn't commit the murder and only acted in self-defense, but he insists on turning himself in to protect his neighborhood.