A Few Reflections on Coach Carter

    We watched the movie Coach Carter this Tuesday. It was an impressive movie, which was as impressive as the snacks that Ms. Norazida gave us. It is said that the movie is based on a true story. Coach Carter agreed to train the basketball team in his old school, Richmond High School. However, the training was nothing smooth because of the aggressive and disrespectful players. Coach Carter started to teach his team from respect and physical strength, and the team made a winning streak for nine games.
    Up to now we can see that Carter is not only good at teaching playing basketball, but he is also good at teaching them how to be a good student (as all the good teachers do). He taught his students to be respectful. He used punishment to convince his aggressive and stubborn students. He used his charisma to influence and inspire them. When he was training his team, he was even more stubborn than the students. However, his stubbornness made the improvement of his team more convincing, and earned more trust from his team members.
    Although the games seemed perfect, but students were not. When Carter found his students got poor grades on their schoolwork, he closed the gym and stopped training and playing games. Later on, the school committee opened the gym under pressure from the public; however, Carter entered the gym only to find the students studying there.
    Carter made a calm judgement between basketball and students' future. In front of the pressure from society, he has the courage to persist his teaching method. Although he failed to persuade the parents, he finally got the hardworking students who trusted him. When no one cared about the students' future, he cared; when every one protested against the lockdown on the gym, he persisted.
    After reaching the academic goal, the team was back to game and keep on winning. Although they lost the last game to the best high school team in the state, they were still proud of what they learnt. Finally, six of the team members went to college.  It was his love and foresight that made him a great coach and made his students successful players.

    P.S. When I wrote this blog, I put my thought into the introduction of the movie. I hope it is okay.