By Tom McKinney
Mini-School movies have their ups and downs. For some of you that don’t know, Mini-School watches a movie nearly every Friday. The main reason there are ups and downs with the movies is because it is illegal to watch an “R” rated movie, according to the Minnetonka administration.
The movies that we watch are most of the time educational. Otherwise, every once in awhile we’ll have a movie that’s just fun to watch. The movies we’ve watched this year are the following: Cool Hand Luke, Matewan, Hear My Song, Medicine Man, The Mission, Fried Green Tomatoes, What About Bob, Power of One, Tell Them Willie Boy Was Here, Absence of Malice, and K2. Most kids in high school have never heard of these movies.
For Mini-School to get better movies there would have to be an administration change at Minnetonka High School. The reason I say this is because the administration would never let us watch an “R’” rated movie, but basically, all the good movies these days are rated “R.”
Other problems Mini-School has sometimes are the people who pick the movies we watch. I think something new should be started, such as the Student of the Week gets to choose or at least put in a selection for the movie on Friday.