As a (legal/technical) adult, I find teen movies and TV so hysterical. I remember watching My So-Called Life when I was 10 and thinking, "Wow! 15-year-olds are so smart! I can't wait until I'm in high school. I'll be such a grown-up!" Kids just don't speak the way they do on TV, which I guess might be the point...a realistic show would be about kids who couldn't go anywhere unless their moms agreed to drive them. In Mean Girls and Jawbreaker, the girls have a level of sophistication and quick intellect that no one, let alone a teenager, has.

I remember when the teacher at the school I used to go to for humanities would show videos and teach us about teenage society and how messed up it is, we watched "Heathers" and various other movies, (although they said this was surburban high school society, not urban [how wrong they were]), the kids didn't get it and continued their assinine ways. One kid even told me when I commented "oh, like Lord of the Flies", the response he gave back us "That's a book, not real life".

excuse me? "She'dbe better off showing an epsiode etc?" i have a name! jeez. i dont get a CHOICE about what films are shown, we have to stick to the syllabus. i asked for advice, not a load of bitching about john hughes that doesnt help me at all.

make them watch that movie, thirteen. it's kind of mature though, although it's about teenage girls who go into cutting and stuff.

as for a song and lyrics, this one seems nice.
Butterfly Boucher - Changes

Oh yeah
Mm
Still don’t know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets and
Every time I thought I’d got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I’ve never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I’m much too fast to take that test

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Don’t want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
So the days float through my eyes
But stil the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Don’t tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Where’s your shame
You’ve left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can’t trace time

Strange fascination, fascinating me
Ah changes are taking the pace I’m going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Oh, look out you rock ’n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now you’re gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can’t trace time

^
The class will not find cutting serious, they'll just laugh afterschool about how "emo" the movie was.

Also based on the synopsis I read about this, it sounds like one of those parental warning preachy bullshit things to keep your kids away from the dangers of drugs and premarital sex... Although I could be wrong, but that's how it comes off.