Is this movie realistic

It happens, but not as much as some would think. It's usually kids killing each other or themselves that's on the news.

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I suppose the US needs security and police in schools because guns are so easily available and you stay in school till 18 we leave at 16.

The UK schools are starting to become like these schools. Since i posted this question a teacher was murdered in school for the first time ever in UK, I would imagine many US teachers have been murdered especially in neighbourhood's shown in this movie

isn't that kind of a contradictory thing to say? You say the problems come from guns, which non-Americans seem to think are just passed out on the street, but then you say UK schools are starting to become like the school in One Eight Seven. Aren't guns pretty much unattainable in the UK? Yet you still have violence in schools and even a teacher murdered, you say. Wouldn't that seem to suggest it's a problem not associated with guns, but with sociology.

Schools like the one depicted in this film are the way they are because of the presence of gangs. Gangs deal in drugs, money, and violence...hence the presence of guns. Think of it like prison...guns can't really be smuggled into prisons...it happens occasionally, but it's rare and difficult. But that doesn't stop inmates from killing each other. They'll do it with a sharpened toothbrush if they have to.



That said, there are parts of this movie that are pretty ridiculous. Like the students threatening to sue all the time. Since tort reform, that just doesn't happen...and to sue you need a lawyer, and that costs money. In theory, since the gangbangers make money from selling drugs and whatnot, they might be able to afford one, but kids that are into that and still go to school...they're not making much on the street. But even if they had money, it's not that simple. Sure, anybody can file a lawsuit...but that doesn't mean it would cost a school district money. Every district has a lawyer(s) on retainer and no sane judge would allow a frivolous lawsuit against, say, a student suing the school because he was accused of stealing a teacher's possessions. School administrators in districts like this are more concerned with keeping things calm...with keeping a gang war from breaking out in their schools.
And the other thing...unless the kids are all 18, they're minors. And minors can't do anything in a legal sense without their parents. And even if they're 18...saying you'd sue over the school for searching a student's locker...it's just laughable. The locker is the school's property, and therefore everything in it is subject to school rules and inspection for any reason. Some schools do random locker searches, mostly for drugs, sometimes for weapons. It's not like they need probable cause...it's not private property. The reason administrators bow down is because the gangs have power through violence...and will do things like shoot up a teacher or principal's house. Not because they'll hire lawyers...


also, just to be clear, this isn't the common state of schools in the U.S. bar far. This is a depiction of a school in a very urban area with a heavy gang presence. The vast majority of U.S schools aren't like this.

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