Chalk

Mike Akel’s modest indie mockumentary about teachers in a Texas high school, is presented by Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) and owes a good deal to the films of Christopher Guest. But it’s still a pleasantly homegrown effort, with convincingly local performers, which will resonate with those who frequent the teacher lounges of America. We follow several teachers and a novice administrator through a school year, as a fly on the wall in their classrooms, as an intimate of their confabs, and even as the voyeur of their afterhours webcams. Most of the jokes are funny and/or true, but the whole goes no place in particular, neither quite a celebration nor a satire of high school teaching. (2005, dvd, n.) *6-* (MC-70.)