‘Where the Tracks End’: Training Hearts and Minds

This installment of ‘Movies for Young Adults’ celebrates inspirational schoolteachers.

Ikal (Kaarlo Isaacs) at school, in “Where the Tracks End.” Netflix

This Spanish-language film, “Where the Tracks End,” spotlights values-based education but more gently than grittier films like “Lean on Me,” “Freedom Writers,” or “Beyond the Blackboard.”

Neither her advancing age nor her advancing eye cataract, stops doting-disciplinarian and schoolteacher Miss Georgina (Adriana Barraza) from mentoring dropouts in rural Mexico. They’re teens and preteens, shunted from town to town by their parents, slogging in the unsettled railroad-repair industry.