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Up the Down Staircase

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Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork.…

★ 7.1/10 · 28 TMDB audience ratings

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  • Sandy DennisSylvia Barrett
  • Patrick BedfordPaul Barringer
  • Eileen HeckartHenrietta Pastorfield
  • Ruth WhiteBeatrice Schacter
  • Jean StapletonSadie Finch
  • Sorrell BookeDr. Bester
  • Roy PooleMr. McHabe
  • Florence StanleyEllen Friedenberg

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