The movie `Dangerous Minds' centres around the students of Park Mont High School who are mainly of Latinos and Black decent. The lives of children living in the slums are characterized by crime and gangsterism, thievery a common place and cocaine and heroin sold in corner markets. These inner city kids grow up in an environment with poor socio-economic conditions, which lead to many problems. The problems which they face and the reasons behind their actions were evidently illustrated through the movie.

The setting of the movie is a disturbing representation of poverty happening in our world today. The inner city residents are mostly immigrants from impoverished family backgrounds and experience discrimination in society. Their surroundings and discrimination cause them to have low self confidence, low self respect and dismal perspective of life. This situation is clearly portrayed by the students in LouAnne Johnson's class who grew up...