The school board members of The High School Of The Performing Arts did not originally want the production to be shot at the school, due to their discomfort with both the screenplay's profanity, nudity, and drug use, but also with the nature of Alan Parker's previous film "Midnight Express". ("You cannot do to the school what you did with Turkish prisons") This angered Parker and producer Alan Marshall so greatly that they released a barrage of obscene words against the school board in their meeting, saying "everything that's just been said has been overheard in the hallways of the school". Quite predictably, they were not amused, and neither did they change their decision.

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