please id this film, if possible:

it is about a boarding school and the story mostly revolves around one
boy and his stay at the school (probably middle school age).  they are
mostly white, high class, but the kids are mischievous pranksters.

in one episode of the movie, there was a pancake restaurant that keeps
a record of the largest number of pancakes eaten by one person.  if
somebody eats more than x number of pancakes in one seating then for
the whole day, the restaurant is supposed to provide free pancakes for
everybody.  the boy gets one of his friends, who is always hungry, to
try to win the prize.  the hungry boy not only breaks the record, but
exceeds it and everybody gets free pancakes that day.

another episode the boy is stuck in a language class and he has to
classify a bunch of words (noun, verb, etc) in front of the class for
the instructor.  he cannot do it, but he has a friend who can classify
the words.  that boy who can, happens to sit in front of the other
(main) boy and he ends up signaling to the other boy what each word's
classification is by wiggling his ears in a certain way.

this may or may not be an american movie.  could be british?  dont
know.

i hope that this is enough to work with.  thanks in advance!

I don't know the title, but this person was looking for the same film
a few years ago:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=nC7w4.516%24FF6.16766%40zonnet-reader-1&rnum=1

Their email address bounces now though.

This is the only place I could find that mentions that movie.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&safe=off&th=5fdc7051f3764f59&rnum=2

Note the two suggestions made in there. Is either one your movie?

im pretty sure that it is neither "dutch" nor "little lord fauntleroy"...

The film is "The Happy Years" (U.S., 1950).  Dean Stockwell starred in
it as "Dink" Stover, the mischievous freshman who struggled in Latin
class.  Don Gift played the role of  "Great Big Man," the puny boy
whose prodigious pancake consumption earned him the new nickname of
"Hungry Smeed."

wow.  thank you!  i will check this movie out and see....  if it isnt,
i will repost.

thank you in advance buckram