In the film The Emperor's Club, Mr. Hundert, a professor who teaches at a prep school for boys, has new student Sedgewick Bell, a senator’s son, in his class. Mr. Hundert tries to re-mold Bell and help him learn honor, integrity, and lessons for class. Hundert sees the bright student that Bell could be and gives Bell the opportunity to compete in the Mr. Julius Caesar competition, despite his grades not being good enough and his disruptive, deviant ways. Bell cheats during the competition and when Mr. Hundert realizes he provides Bell with a question that he would have to pull the answer from his memory. Years later, Bell invites Mr. Hundert and his former classmates to a Mr. Caesar rematch, again Bell cheats and Hundert says nothing. Bell…show more content… This brings about the question of why do teacher seem to pick and choose when they call out cheating? From experiences in high school, it always looked as if the teacher choose their favorites student to not “catch’ and to punish those that they did not like as much. In the movie, Mr. Hundert chose to let the cheating go unnoticed because of Bell’s family and how they help fund the school because he thought that if he called Bell out that the family would get angry and possibly pull funding. (He also let it go because the dean told him to ignore the cheating.) While in Mad Hot Ballroom there was no course work, the dance teachers expected their students to preform to the best of their abilities without any serious pressure. The pressure that is placed on students when they are expected to be a certain way, pushes many to cheat in order to meet those standards because otherwise they feel like failures. Students who have high expectations placed on them actually have two ways they could fall one is cheating to reach goals another is pushing themselves to learn and find new answers. In Hobart Shakespeareans, the students from the very first day can look at the walls of the classroom and see those who went on after school and succeeded. This for some kids can be intimidating and for others it is the level they wish to achieve on day. Sedgewick Bell seemed to want to aspire to greatness before he cheated, but after he cheats you realize that Bell is following his father’s example. While for many students having good and influential teachers like Mr. Hundert pushes them to achieve honestly, others choose to follow a different role model who is not always as good of an influence. For many teachers it is hard to find the balance between calling students out and not. In the New Boy film, the teacher pulls boys who she believed to be disruptive out into the hall and reprimand them. To compare this
