A boy at a boarding school writes a letter back to his mother. He fights back tears and must face another harassment from his bullies.

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 little girl navigates her relationships with two boys in her elementary school class, a brash bully and a shy victim, and learns about the nature of suffering.

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 student befriends his roommate, Carter, but his loyalty falls short when the headmaster accuses him of a scandalous act committed by Carter.

Remi and her classmates at an all-girl’s boarding high school in Nigeria protest the changes made to their school by their new principal, but they fail to foresee the tragic and unfair consequences of their efforts.

On the eve of her students' elementary school graduation, a teacher in rural Ireland makes one last push to prepare her students for the real world.

A seventh-grade English teacher copes with the recent death of her father and assigns a memoir that her students love reading. However, their parents question her for her pedagogical choices because of the swear words and provocative topics in the book.

A young girl and her best friend attend a settlement school in North Carolina, where two brothers' shenanigans lead them to play a horrible prank on the new girl.

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.