School Days is a 1921 American comedy film directed by William Nigh, written by Walter DeLeon, Hoey Lawlor and William Nigh, and starring Wesley Barry, George Lessey, Nellie Parker Spaulding, Margaret Seddon, Arline Blackburn, and J.H.
[1] Prints of School Days survives at the George Eastman House and UCLA Film and Television Archive with one reel missing.
[6] As described in a film magazine,[7] Speck Brown (Barry) is a country boy who has been raised by the hard hearted Deacon Jones (Lessey).
The Deacon insists that Speck attend school, but when the teacher (Seddon) defends the boy against his viscous guardian, Jones turns against her.
A couple of crooks plan to make Speck the goat in a scheme involving his friend Leff (Conlon), the inventor of a patent clothespin.