What about the movies?

It's probably true that most of the people who are reading about education are people who are paid (however little) to be interested in education-- teachers, administrators, policy types, and politicians. Parents are the obvious exception here. This may be a reason why reading about it seems so much like work. Where is the writing that does justice to the full human experience of a year in a high school classroom from a teachers perspective?

The movies seem to be a primary location where American culture processes how it feels about the work that teachers do. The dozens of examples are too obvious to list, but without exception a teacher in the movies never has more than one class of students. A practical necessity when it comes to telling efficient stories, but an obviously absurd lens for looking at the work teachers do when you consider that the typical high school teacher has not one class of hard-edged-but-lovable underacheivers, but five. Five. Five classes everyday for 180 days in a row.

So it seems like writing might be better at this than the movies, but I am willing to expand my search to include any work of art. Also, if somebody can tell me a movie where a teacher has more than one class, I'd like to know. The only possible exception I can think of is Matthew Broderick's character in Election (and what a depressing example that is...).