Comments on: Akeelah and the Bee – A Great Movie – 100k for your school, free for your teacher ! http://blogmaverick.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/ the mark cuban weblog Thu, 31 May 2012 20:17:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: runescape money http://blogmaverick.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15980 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:14 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15980 I’m sure Mark and them took this into consideration when setting this up. Would a school with 50 kids and 5 faculty in a rural and rather steady setting need $100,000 more than the overcrowded, extremely underfunded, and problem-riddled inner-city high schools that plague urban America?

]]> By: Lucas http://blogmaverick.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15956 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:09 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15956 100,000$, thats it Mark? You can blow 200,000$ on pissing and moaning over losing one game, yet only 100,000$ for the kids? Good idea, but a little weak for someone of your stature.

]]> By: Christopher Byrne http://blogmaverick.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15957 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:09 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15957 Get the most kids to the movie and win 100K for your school? Great concept, but virtually cuts out smaller schools. For example, my kids school has 320 students, and even if they all went, they would lose out to a school of 1,000 that sends 321 students.

As great as this movie is, and I saw it with my daughter, I am not sure this contest is as fair as the Bee itself.

]]> By: Kurt http://blogmaverick.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15958 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:09 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15958 We’re in the same boat – 250 students. How about two contests? First prize to largest aggregate group. Consolation prize to highest percentage of movie attendees to student enrollees.

]]> By: James Baker http://blogmaverick.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15959 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:09 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15959 post number 4 is a little delusional; you come across as only donating 100,000 for the kids, but he isn’t taking into account that you do many other charities for kids and other causes; this is just one. Would he rather you donated 5 million to just one cause instead of breaking it up into many different causes?? some are just never happy, I guess….post #5 makes sense; I guess to make it more fair you could do a percentage of children in the school who go see the movie; is 378 out of 457 go to the movie, calculate it to 92% (or whatever it comes out to); my wife is a second grade teacher and this is a really good idea I’m going to share with her….Dallas vs. Clippers in next round of playoffs?? who would have ever thought it, but its a possibility!!

]]> By: James Baker http://blogmaverick.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15960 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:09 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15960 post number 4 is a little delusional; you come across as only donating 100,000 for the kids, but he isn’t taking into account that you do many other charities for kids and other causes; this is just one. Would he rather you donated 5 million to just one cause instead of breaking it up into many different causes?? some are just never happy, I guess….post #5 makes sense; I guess to make it more fair you could do a percentage of children in the school who go see the movie; is 378 out of 457 go to the movie, calculate it to 92% (or whatever it comes out to); my wife is a second grade teacher and this is a really good idea I’m going to share with her….Dallas vs. Clippers in next round of playoffs?? who would have ever thought it, but its a possibility!!

]]> By: James Baker http://blogmaverick.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15961 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:09 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15961 not sure why mine posted twice…….sorry…..

]]> By: Jeffro http://blogmaverick.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15962 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:09 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15962 Another note about Post#4. He obviously doesn’t know that you match any of your fines from the NBA and donate it to charity.

]]> By: OneEye http://blogmaverick.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15963 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:09 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15963 The movie looks great, but ‘Starbucks Entertainment’ on the billing. Isn’t making coffee enough?

]]> By: Walterego http://blogmaverick.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15964 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:09 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/akeelah-and-the-bee-a-great-movie-100k-for-your-school/#comment-15964 I’m a teacher at the school where Akeelah and the Bee was filmed. About three weeks ago students on the honor roll (3.5+ GPA) were awarded with a preview screening nearby USC. We were given tickets because filming was done at the school last year.

When the kids returned in the afternoon, I wanted to get the lowdown on the film. Did Ike and Tina recapture the magic from “What’s Love?” Does Starbucks have a future in Hollywood?

Only I didn’t get that far. My students were too livid to even speak on the merits of the film. They didn’t appreciate their neighborhood being called “Crenshaw”, nor did they appreciate having their school depicted as a worn-down collection of delapidated classrooms with worms and cockroaches crawling out of walls.

Over and over I heard my kids say “Mister, it was so messed up.” I haven’t seen the film (nor do I plan to) but I seriously doubt the filmmakers had my students feelings in mind. Not only did they sh!t on the school, they shat on the community.

It’s like being asked to film your lovely home, then finding out they used it as a stand-in for Auschwitz.

Just wanted to give the other side.

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