"The story of an idealistic, innovative teacher on a remote South Carolina island. His unorthodox teaching methods bring him into conflict with the reactionary school superintendent."@en
"The story of an idealistic, innovative teacher on a remote South Carolina island. His unorthodox teaching methods bring him into conflict with the reactionary school superintendent."
""A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island that they have virtually developed their own language ('Conrack' is their way of saying his name, Conroy) and, in fact, don't have much interest in learning about anything outside the island. He has to find a way to get through to these kids and teach them what they need to know and also to keep on the good side of the school superintendent, who doesn't want him there"--Internet movie database, as viewed on January 17, 2007."
"A young, idealistic, white teacher confronts all the prejudices of the Deep South when he teaches black children in a small school on a remote South Carolina island."
"Autobiographical account of Pat Conroy's adventures as a white grade-school instructor attempting to instill education into a pathetically ignorant assemblage of deprived black children in a dilapidated, two-room schoolhouse on a remote South Carolina island."

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