Saturday Detention At Shermer High School

Physical and mental statures are the two sided of a human being but most people are one or the other. As shown in the film, Andy is a superior wrestler and Brian is a superior student. The two meet in Saturday Detention at Shermer Highs School in Illinois along with three other students, named John, Claire, and Allison. Throughout the day, the actions of these students show who they really are beyond the surface. This also answers the question to the essay they all were supposed to write. Andy is a wrestler for the Shermer High School team and he does very well as an athlete. He has been trained for the sport by his father all his life and resents him for it. His father pressures him into being the best at the sport and only cares about winning. Mr. Clark said, as he was bringing Andy to detention, “You wanna miss a match? You wanna blow your ride? No school's gonna give a scholarship to a discipline case!” Andy later describes his relationship with his father as rocky. The reason he is in detention is because of his father. Andy says, “And the bizarre thing is that I did it for my old man. I tortured this poor kid because I wanted him to think that I was cool…” Since Andy is so resentful of his father, he was driven to hurt someone else. Also, Andy
Andy was driven to hurt someone else from his anxiety and Brian was driven to hurt himself. As a guidance counselor, I would send both the students and the parents to an intervention program. The students have to learn to stand up for their beliefs and the parents have to learn to scale back on their wishes for their children. Parents always have unreasonable expectations from their children; it’s a proven fact. As a way to counter-act this, the training will focus on the relativity of their expectations of eachother. After this training, the parent-child relationship should improve greatly and even become stronger than