Rachel teaches after-school sex education; Tracey gets involved with nude photography; Jody recruits a former drop out to help with a half-way house and gets involved with a drug ring.

"[7] Producer Jon Davison says no one who worked on The Student Teachers ever saw the Rothman/Swartz script.

A draft was written by Kaplan and Danny Opatoshu (who had helped write Night Call Nurses), but Corman asked for it to be rewritten.

According to Davison, Corman removed a number of jokes from the final chase sequence so it was played straighter.

And I made the decision consciously to make as many movies as I could in as short a period of time as I could"[8] The lead was written for Patti Byrne who was in Kaplan's earlier Night Call Nurses but she did not commit and the role ended up being played by Susan Damante.

[1] Jon Davison invited Joe Dante out to Los Angeles to edit the trailer for the film.