I chose these two scenes to splice together because one explains what Kessler as likely feeling in the first scene. The scene’s background context is that throughout the whole movie, all that the leadership of the school board wanted was the ringleaders of the protest, seemingly so that they could mark it off on record as one person’s revolt. However the point of the entire film is that they were voting on it and being democratic, a freedom in which the lack there of caused the protest being discussed in the second clip. In both clips the characters were not prepared for the protest that they were facing. At the end of the first scene, Kessler is angrier than ever when she figures out that she had to expel the entire class instead of finishing the investigation as an “open and closed” case. The second group of officers were also unprepared for the protest that they faced in a similar way. Instead of being prepared for a small number of agitators, they faced a mass population who, if stopped, would have become martyrs. While the time periods differ by thirty years, the style of protest, a majority protest is something that is consistent within the two events of the films.