permalink The school has a small key role in the original films release in that it plants the seed upon how of how some the Na'vi people came to understand our language and some of our history its also builds on Graces relationship with the Na'vi community , its role in the directors cut adds another much deeper reflective layer as Neytiri's Sister (unspoken of in the original film) was killed there By RDA soldiers resulting in a deeper emotional understanding about why Human Na'vi relations have became so strained ,, its never really talked about but it does play a role in Selfridge's line of his perspectives and agenda on the roll of the school plays upon attempted Na'vi cultural assimilation, Look "We" (From his perspective) are supposed to winning the "hearts" and the "minds" of the natives, isn't that the point of your little puppet show, we look like them, and we talk like them and they will start trusting "Us" "We" Build them a school "We" teach them English but after what ,how many years relationships with the indigenous is only getting worse . So The Cooperate heads from there perceptive "see" this school as a diplomatic relations "tool"... "But" that is not Grace's perspective at all , The way Selfdridge "sees" the School is somewhat reflective of our own peoples "very real and deeply wounding past history" with the Native Cultural assimilation schools "(Run by religious org's simply dig through the layers on youtube "The history of Indian Boarding Schools" these core aspects are repressed within the "core" roots our deep memory's.. So this part of Avatar's mirror storytelling touches deeply upon them and pulls up in reflection these repressed internal memory's and drags them as a internal emotional ethical reference to the surface.. I feel this is very important to recognize and for some this experience is at the heart of some very powerful internal reconciliation medicine at work here But Grace through her heartfelt compassion never implements those layers and instead runs the school like was said before as a "Bridge" building experience between cultures. so in a way the school is "seed" of building cross cultural understanding with the perspectives of this meaning from "Sky people" split in perceptive upon its underlying reason for being there.. Last edited by allroock123; 05-12-2018 at 03:04 PM .