YMMV / Up the Down Staircase

• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Sorrell Booke (The Dukes of Hazzard) as school principal Dr. Bester.
  • Jean Stapleton as school secretary Mrs. Finch.
  • Florence Stanley as guidance counselor Mrs. Friedenberg.
  • Frances Sternhagen as librarian Mrs. Wolf.
  • Esther Rolle and Bud Cort have uncredited roles as a teacher and student respectively.
• Values Dissonance:
  • One of the characters is described with "shows signs of latent homosexuality induced by narcissistic mother and permissive self-abusive practices". In the 1960s, overbearing mothers and masturbation were seen as causing homosexuality, which was still seen as a mental illness at the time.
  • In what might be Deliberate Values Dissonance, the nurse doesn't bother to call child's services when students come to her bruised up by their parents. Sylvia finds that odd, but it does fit many older viewpoints on ignoring abuse.

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