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"S-S-S-S-t...

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S-S-St...

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S-S-to...

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S-S-Stower-ry."

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"Stower-ry."

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"Story."

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Idiot.

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"S-tory.

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Put... the...

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...story in...

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...o...

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...o..."

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Try it again.

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I can't.

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Oh, no.

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Come on, come on, come on,
come on, come on.

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Hey, bug.

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It's time to wake up.

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Mmm.

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Let's go, we're late.
Let's go.

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The new school doesn't care.

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I care.

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One more bite.
I ate it.

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That's why I bought you that
59.99 LeSportsac backpack...

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...and I will take it away if
we keep being late. Let's go.

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Go, go, go, come on.

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Look, what does that sign say?
Go on, read that sign.

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It says "stop."
Malia.

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Okay, what sound does
that first letter make?

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"Stop...

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...aggravating me."

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Malia. Come on.

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I got it, right?

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Come on.

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Come on. Go, go.

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Here you go.

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I love you.

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I love you, I love you.

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I love you, bug.

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Sorry we're late.

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Good morning.
I just have one question.

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At Malia's old school,
her teacher used to

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stay late
sometimes after school

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to help her a little
bit with her reading...

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School's over at 3.

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For real?

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Yeah, for real.

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Okay.

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Yesterday we were
learning about nouns.

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Today we'll be
looking at verbs.

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It's how we express an action,
that's what verbs are for.

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So.

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In the sentence:

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"The penguin
dives into the sea."

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Where's the verb?
The action word?

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Anyone?

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How 'bout it, Tyler?
Wanna take a swing at it?

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I'm not doin' this for me.

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All right,
let's go back to anyone.

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Wait till you see
the deals I got today.

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Beautiful Buick Rendezvous.
This baby is loaded.

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I'm pickin' her up today.
We're gonna beg

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her old school to give
us a break on tuition.

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She cannot stay in that class.

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No, Liz, that's exactly what I
said to that crazy teacher.

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Hold on.

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Hank Hart Auto.

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Sure, I'll transfer you.

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Yeah, no, and the principal keeps
blowing me off over and over again.

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Oh, God. I'm sorry,
I gotta go. I gotta go.

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I'll call you back.
I gotta go.

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Hank Hart Auto.

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No, I'm sorry, ma'am, Mr. Hart
is indisposed at the moment.

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Excuse me, ma'am, would you
please lower your voice?

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Oh, my boss can't talk right
now, so I'm a stupid cow?

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You wanna talk
to my supervisor?

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Okay. Sure, no problem.

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Oops, wrong button.

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Hey, Jamie.
Oh, Mr. Hart.

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Hey, Jamie, check this out.
Hey. Yes.

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"We must be the change we
wish to see." That's Gandhi.

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And it's good for car sales,
it's good for life.

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Boy, that little guy really
knew a thing or two, right?

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Listen, I just wanted to talk to
you because Jan mentioned to me...

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...that you might wanna cut
back on my hours a little bit.

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I'm still behind here.

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I completely understand.
You're tryin' to

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run an effective business.
I wanna help.

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I can't stand her.

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I can't. I can't.

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We talked about this, Breena.

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It's a Deborah-free zone
for our own sanity.

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Mmm-hmm. Yeah.

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You know, in a way,
I almost admire her.

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No ordinary deadbeat could
pull off the highest salary

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and the lowest job performance in
school history seven years running.

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Seriously, Breena.

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Except you're not
getting her subliterate kids

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that she passes
on to me. Okay?

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And I have to give them two
years of teaching in one.

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I know there's a lot of
Adams washouts, but still.

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The only thing that the district does
right is protect what it does wrong.

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Can't teach your way
out of a paper bag?

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Your students can't even spell
"paper bag"? No problem.

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We'll just transfer them on to
the next school, and the next.

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And if all else fails,
well, hey, there's

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Adams, where
education goes to die.

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Ahh!

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It's my shrink's idea.

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Every time I start obsessing
about how bad it's getting,

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I just snap myself out of it.

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How is that workin' for ya?

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Calluses upon calluses.

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Give me one of those things.

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Uh-uh.

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Oh. Really?

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Good morning, Nona.

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Office needs your
attendance logs corrected.

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Oh, Tim.

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No use fightin' 'em on it.

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Yeah. You have too
many absents then

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they can't just
pass them along.

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Breakin' the law for the Man.

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That gives you a special
feeling, doesn't it?

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What?

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Just gets to you, you know?

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<i>Now 10 divided by 3</i>

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<i>is 3.33</i>

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<i>And straight on into infinity</i>

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<i>Figure it out,
don't listen to me</i>

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<i>It's knowledge</i>

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<i>To get to college</i>

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<i>Come on, come on</i>

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<i>Now 50% of 110</i>

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<i>Cut it in half, do it again</i>

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<i>Double or nothing it's 55</i>

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<i>And what percentage
of you will arrive in college</i>

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<i>You're all going to college</i>

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Jazz hands! Jazz hands!

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Hurry up! We gotta get to your old
school before the principal leaves.

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Come on!
Come on, come on, come on.

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You know we'd love
to have Malia back,

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but we can't give
you any more aid.

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Okay, so, tuition's five
hundred, I'll pay you six.

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But I'll pay it
in installments,

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like a 0% down,
3% financing kind of thing.

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I know, you're trepidatious.

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But you're gonna make more
money in the long run.

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I'm sorry.

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Sit down here for
just one second, sweetie.

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Please, please. I'm begging you.
I'm on my hands and knees.

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She was doin' all
right with you guys.

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This new school can't do
anything about the dyslexia.

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And I know it's
only been a short time.

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I can feel it changing her.
It's making her hard.

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And the school's failing.

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It is. They put it online now. You can read it.
They got an F. An F.

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There's the Rosa Parks Charter.

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They have a lottery
coming up soon.

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I know, but they got like 500
people going for three slots.

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Well, perhaps
another school, then.

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You're acting like
I got a choice here.

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It's not personal.

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For you!

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Let's get outta here.
Okay.

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Malia, don't worry.
I just gotta get you

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into that other
second grade class.

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You look nice,
Mrs. Alberts.

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Yeah.
First black Stepford wife.

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Oh, don't answer that. It's Charles.
New boss, I'm late.

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Cody, come on. You remember,
we worked on this. All right?

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You take this number here
and this number.

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You can do it, come on.
I know you can.

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All right...

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Just tell him
I'm gonna be late.

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Good night, Cody.

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Alberts residence.

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Clay, Valerie, Nona.

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So nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.

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Nice to meet you.

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I ordered you the <i>coq au vin</i>
since you were late.

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Thank you.

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So Charles tells us you
teach in the Hill District.

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Now, is that the Rosa Parks
Charter that NPR is so gaga over?

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I teach at Adams.

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When we first moved here,
Nona made it a point

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to find the school
most in need.

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That is so admirable.

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Very idealistic, she was.

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Well, I guess we both were.
I still wanted to design then.

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So we would stay up all night
long planning the schools

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that I would build
for her to run.

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We were so young.

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Now the thought of all that
just makes me wanna take a nap.

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You're gonna rip it!

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I don't care! Now give it!

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- Let go! It's mine!
- Take your seats.

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Everybody, sit down now.

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Stop. You're gonna rip it!

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All right, that's it.

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Come on, sit down.
Everybody sit down.

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You both take your seats.

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Oh, no.

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All right.
Just give me the backpack.

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She ruined it.
Everybody sit down.

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Sit down.

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- No. Stop laughing.
- Calm down.

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Stop!

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Give it to me.

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She tore my backpack!

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Give me the backpack
and sit down.

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Don't be such
a drama queen, Malia. Lord.

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<i>That's not true,
there's nothing you could do.</i>

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<i>You could put her
in the other class.</i>

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I can't do that!
As I've told you

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in one of our last
six conversations...

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Yeah?

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...there are laws about the number
of kids you can have in a class.

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So switch her with another kid.

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Or, so, get rid
of this teacher.

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The whole school
knows she's got

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a track history of
complaints against her.

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Oh, no, yes,
you can't! Right?

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'Cause she's
tenurized. Right?

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Yes, along with
a slew of other things

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spelled out in her
600 page contract.

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Right.

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Anyway, look at what she's dealin' with.
30 kids who hate school.

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Whose fault is that?

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It's not all hers. Every kid can't
rise to the top, I'm afraid.

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You're afraid?

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Have you heard
about those mothers

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that lift one-ton
trucks off their babies?

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They're nothing compared to me.

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No.

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Excuse me? He's not going
into a remedial classroom.

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But he's been acting out, and
he did test below the norm.

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He tested borderline. He's been
goin' through things at home.

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I'll keep working with him.

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If I may, I think that might
contribute to the acting out.

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Do you?

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Nona, this is not
a referendum on you.

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Maybe we all just need
to back off Cody a bit.

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Test results are test results.

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Hold up for a second.
Can't.

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Rosa Parks got a lottery.
I'm gonna beg to

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get him in.
Play the teacher card.

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First of all, a new school is not
gonna stop him from acting out.

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Why do you think
he's acting out?

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Honestly? Because you can't
not be a teacher to him.

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You don't think it's 'cause
of what's happening at home?

252
00:16:23,524 --> 00:16:26,778
You are all over
him all the time.

253
00:16:26,944 --> 00:16:28,571
And I know why.

254
00:16:28,738 --> 00:16:31,241
But at some point,
you have to let go.

255
00:16:34,535 --> 00:16:35,752
Nona.

256
00:16:36,370 --> 00:16:37,417
Nona!

257
00:16:47,465 --> 00:16:48,591
Hi.

258
00:16:49,091 --> 00:16:50,764
This is where I'm going?

259
00:16:50,927 --> 00:16:52,144
I hope so.

260
00:16:52,303 --> 00:16:53,930
We need some luck.

261
00:16:55,264 --> 00:16:56,857
Maybe I should
practice my reading.

262
00:16:56,974 --> 00:16:58,601
They'll want me if
my reading's good.

263
00:16:58,768 --> 00:17:00,816
Let's go find someplace to sit.

264
00:17:05,441 --> 00:17:06,658
Excuse me.

265
00:17:09,278 --> 00:17:11,872
Excuse me. I'm trying to
get my son in the lottery.

266
00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:13,203
It's too late. I'm sorry.

267
00:17:13,366 --> 00:17:15,164
Please, I'm a teacher. ls
there anyone I could talk to?

268
00:17:15,326 --> 00:17:19,126
You can try the principal. He's
right over there. Do you see him?

269
00:17:24,794 --> 00:17:26,512
How's it going
poaching my teachers?

270
00:17:26,671 --> 00:17:29,140
Oh, please. We don't
poach, we protect.

271
00:17:29,298 --> 00:17:31,141
Now, that's a good line. You
oughta use it more often.

272
00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:33,143
Oh, I forgot, you already do.

273
00:17:33,302 --> 00:17:34,975
Oh, here we go, union bashing.

274
00:17:35,137 --> 00:17:38,892
Here's a little secret: you can
criticize and support unions.

275
00:17:39,058 --> 00:17:41,026
Hey. How'd it go
with your brother?

276
00:17:41,185 --> 00:17:43,483
Oh, it was great.
He won, 3 to 2.

277
00:17:43,646 --> 00:17:45,398
Almost as good as you.

278
00:17:45,815 --> 00:17:48,364
But you don't support us, you know?
You shut us out.

279
00:17:48,526 --> 00:17:50,494
Yeah, because my teachers
want their freedom.

280
00:17:50,653 --> 00:17:54,999
To be overworked? To be fired
at any time for any reason?

281
00:17:55,157 --> 00:17:57,580
No, freedom to put in extra
time with their kids.

282
00:17:57,743 --> 00:18:00,371
You know, freedom to stay
after school if they want.

283
00:18:01,414 --> 00:18:02,415
Good luck to you.

284
00:18:02,582 --> 00:18:06,257
But do they want it, or are
they too scared to say no?

285
00:18:06,586 --> 00:18:08,054
You forget I was
a teacher once.

286
00:18:08,212 --> 00:18:09,839
No. I don't forget.

287
00:18:10,673 --> 00:18:12,550
You were one of the greats.

288
00:18:12,717 --> 00:18:14,515
Mr. Thompson.
My name is Nona Alberts.

289
00:18:14,677 --> 00:18:16,554
I'll have to talk
to you afterwards.

290
00:18:23,561 --> 00:18:25,063
Good evening, parents.

291
00:18:32,028 --> 00:18:34,372
Here's your charm.
Put it in your right hand.

292
00:18:34,530 --> 00:18:36,123
In our country,

293
00:18:36,198 --> 00:18:38,667
one child out of every four

294
00:18:39,201 --> 00:18:41,795
grows up not knowing
how to read properly.

295
00:18:43,039 --> 00:18:44,382
Let me ask you

296
00:18:44,915 --> 00:18:46,883
does that make you mad?

297
00:18:47,043 --> 00:18:48,044
Yes!

298
00:18:48,210 --> 00:18:50,759
Good, because
I want you to be mad.

299
00:18:51,088 --> 00:18:54,718
We have 40 spaces
for you in our school.

300
00:18:55,217 --> 00:18:59,267
So that means 400 of you are
going to have to go out there

301
00:18:59,347 --> 00:19:01,566
and fight for something better.

302
00:19:02,224 --> 00:19:04,568
Just like I did 10 years ago.

303
00:19:04,727 --> 00:19:07,731
I was a teacher,
a parent of two.

304
00:19:07,897 --> 00:19:09,649
I was sending my
kids to school,

305
00:19:09,732 --> 00:19:11,200
but they weren't
learning anything.

306
00:19:11,275 --> 00:19:13,448
Now I don't know
everything, but I knew

307
00:19:13,527 --> 00:19:15,621
I had to do something
to try to fix it.

308
00:19:16,405 --> 00:19:20,080
And now, Rosa Parks
is third in the state.

309
00:19:25,623 --> 00:19:28,046
But when I first
tried to start it,

310
00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:30,048
you know what they said to me?

311
00:19:30,586 --> 00:19:34,932
"Hold on. Wait.
We're addressing the problem."

312
00:19:35,132 --> 00:19:38,807
"Hold on, wait.
They're makin' changes."

313
00:19:38,969 --> 00:19:43,770
That word "wait" means they're not
going to do anything about it.

314
00:19:44,141 --> 00:19:47,270
I said then and
I'm saying it now.

315
00:19:47,603 --> 00:19:50,277
We will not wait.

316
00:19:53,984 --> 00:19:57,705
Are we going to wait while our
kids are dropping out of school?

317
00:19:59,073 --> 00:20:02,623
Are we going to wait while the
school system is failing us?

318
00:20:02,785 --> 00:20:04,412
We will not wait.

319
00:20:04,620 --> 00:20:07,294
We will not wait.

320
00:20:07,456 --> 00:20:09,550
We will not wait!

321
00:20:09,625 --> 00:20:10,672
We will not wait!

322
00:20:10,835 --> 00:20:13,133
This is it!
This is our school.

323
00:20:13,462 --> 00:20:14,839
We will not wait!

324
00:20:16,882 --> 00:20:21,137
Okay, now, we're
about to begin the draw.

325
00:20:21,303 --> 00:20:23,977
Close your eyes. Close
your eyes and wish for it.

326
00:20:24,140 --> 00:20:26,643
First grade, three slots.

327
00:20:26,809 --> 00:20:28,061
Okay?

328
00:20:37,820 --> 00:20:39,493
Sarah Troy.

329
00:20:39,655 --> 00:20:41,248
Yes! Yes!

330
00:20:42,616 --> 00:20:44,459
Kenya Randall.

331
00:20:44,744 --> 00:20:46,917
Is that the teacher
in the other class?

332
00:20:47,121 --> 00:20:48,122
Yeah.

333
00:20:48,289 --> 00:20:50,132
Easton Hawks.

334
00:20:50,291 --> 00:20:51,508
Yeah!

335
00:20:55,588 --> 00:20:58,137
Three slots now
for third grade.

336
00:20:58,841 --> 00:21:00,684
Oh, no. Okay.

337
00:21:00,885 --> 00:21:03,684
Go like this. It's better luck.
Luck's a lady.

338
00:21:03,846 --> 00:21:06,144
Luck is a foxy lady.

339
00:21:09,977 --> 00:21:11,775
LeShonda Jackson.

340
00:21:12,688 --> 00:21:14,315
Go, LeShonda!

341
00:21:18,194 --> 00:21:19,867
Chris Amodio.

342
00:21:20,029 --> 00:21:21,201
Yeah!

343
00:21:25,993 --> 00:21:29,497
The last slot for
the third grade goes to

344
00:21:36,504 --> 00:21:37,972
Robert Bryant.

345
00:21:42,051 --> 00:21:45,021
We have three
slots for fourth grade.

346
00:21:45,513 --> 00:21:47,186
Elijah Jones.

347
00:22:05,908 --> 00:22:08,127
Congratulations to all of you.

348
00:22:08,285 --> 00:22:11,505
And to everyone else,
we must fight on.

349
00:22:14,208 --> 00:22:19,339
This is a new day and we are
taking back our public schools.

350
00:22:21,799 --> 00:22:23,016
Thank you.

351
00:22:29,139 --> 00:22:31,437
Principal,
your car's ready for you.

352
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,568
Listen, can I speak
to Mr. Thompson?

353
00:22:33,727 --> 00:22:35,400
Excuse me.
Mr. Thompson?

354
00:22:35,813 --> 00:22:36,814
Excuse me.

355
00:22:37,231 --> 00:22:38,824
You teach second
grade at Adams, right?

356
00:22:38,941 --> 00:22:40,568
My daughter just started there.

357
00:22:40,734 --> 00:22:42,407
Are you here for yourself
or for your kid?

358
00:22:42,528 --> 00:22:44,201
That's none of your business.

359
00:22:44,321 --> 00:22:45,413
What do you want from me?

360
00:22:45,531 --> 00:22:46,623
I want Malia in your class.

361
00:22:46,782 --> 00:22:49,581
It's a criminality keeping her in
the other class. You have no room?

362
00:22:49,743 --> 00:22:51,711
It's up to the principal!
The principal said no!

363
00:22:51,871 --> 00:22:53,123
Then there's nothing
I can do about it!

364
00:22:53,289 --> 00:22:54,541
That's what you all say!

365
00:22:54,707 --> 00:22:57,085
Would you tell me right
now what you can do?

366
00:22:57,251 --> 00:22:58,628
I can ask him
about it tomorrow.

367
00:22:58,794 --> 00:23:00,512
You're not gonna do that,
but thank you very much.

368
00:23:00,671 --> 00:23:02,423
You're not the only one bein' put off.
I said I'll ask.

369
00:23:02,590 --> 00:23:04,012
I've heard that before.
Not from me.

370
00:23:04,174 --> 00:23:05,426
This is for her.

371
00:23:08,721 --> 00:23:10,268
I understand.
I'll do it.

372
00:23:15,561 --> 00:23:17,029
Thank you!

373
00:23:51,221 --> 00:23:52,689
Can we talk now?

374
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,154
I was thinking about
my mother's funeral.

375
00:24:04,026 --> 00:24:07,451
How word got out and all those
old students showed up.

376
00:24:08,238 --> 00:24:10,616
So many that they
had to wait outside.

377
00:24:10,783 --> 00:24:12,535
And it was galing.

378
00:24:13,827 --> 00:24:15,170
You remember that?

379
00:24:15,788 --> 00:24:16,789
Yeah.

380
00:24:18,916 --> 00:24:20,509
But they didn't care.

381
00:24:21,877 --> 00:24:26,178
They had to say something, remember
her, what she'd done for them.

382
00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:27,307
Nona.

383
00:24:27,383 --> 00:24:28,475
They wouldn't go away.

384
00:24:28,968 --> 00:24:30,390
They just

385
00:24:31,637 --> 00:24:34,732
had to speak.

386
00:24:34,890 --> 00:24:36,062
Needed to...

387
00:24:36,809 --> 00:24:41,406
Over and over, they just
kept saying the same thing.

388
00:24:41,563 --> 00:24:45,409
Her passion,
her passion, that passion.

389
00:24:45,567 --> 00:24:47,069
Nona. Listen to me.

390
00:24:47,236 --> 00:24:50,536
Can you please just not leave
so many empty hangers?

391
00:25:36,869 --> 00:25:38,792
How you doing
with that teacher?

392
00:25:43,667 --> 00:25:44,668
Malia?

393
00:25:45,586 --> 00:25:48,089
She hates you so she hates me.

394
00:25:56,096 --> 00:25:57,769
We're gonna get
you out of there.

395
00:25:57,931 --> 00:25:59,103
Whatever.

396
00:26:17,117 --> 00:26:18,494
Hey, how you doing?

397
00:26:18,660 --> 00:26:22,290
Hi! Well, it's casual Friday, so I feel great.
Can I help you?

398
00:26:22,372 --> 00:26:25,091
I hope so. My daughter's
getting crushed at Adams

399
00:26:25,167 --> 00:26:27,044
so I gotta talk to
your superintendent guy.

400
00:26:27,294 --> 00:26:28,887
He doesn't do walk-ins.
I'm sorry.

401
00:26:29,046 --> 00:26:31,845
Which I figured. I work
reception, too, at Hank Hart.

402
00:26:32,007 --> 00:26:34,430
And I know every once in a
while, there's an opening.

403
00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:36,095
I just figured I would
take a chance because

404
00:26:36,220 --> 00:26:37,767
my daughter is getting crushed.

405
00:26:37,930 --> 00:26:39,603
Wait, did you say
Hank Hart, the car guy?

406
00:26:39,681 --> 00:26:42,230
The guy who has his ads
all over the benches?

407
00:26:42,392 --> 00:26:43,609
Wow.

408
00:26:43,894 --> 00:26:45,737
Can I buy you a coffee?

409
00:26:46,313 --> 00:26:48,657
And I understand that but it's, like awful!
I understand.

410
00:26:48,816 --> 00:26:50,489
And Rosa Parks
was my last chance.

411
00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:52,282
And now I'm like
110 on the wait list.

412
00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:53,946
And that guy acted like he just

413
00:26:54,029 --> 00:26:56,327
extemporaneously went out
and made it happen.

414
00:26:56,490 --> 00:26:58,663
It's not like you can just
go and start a school!

415
00:26:58,826 --> 00:27:00,954
Actually, it doesn't stop
the parents from trying.

416
00:27:01,036 --> 00:27:02,913
And that was even before
they passed the law.

417
00:27:02,996 --> 00:27:03,963
What law?

418
00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:05,679
The one where you can
turn schools around.

419
00:27:06,083 --> 00:27:07,630
What, the parents can?

420
00:27:07,793 --> 00:27:10,091
Yeah. With the teachers,
if the school's failing.

421
00:27:10,170 --> 00:27:11,217
It's called the
Fail-Safe Law.

422
00:27:11,296 --> 00:27:12,969
But you know what?
It never happens.

423
00:27:13,132 --> 00:27:14,634
'Cause the guys here, I swear,

424
00:27:14,716 --> 00:27:16,434
they moonlight at
the Rivers Poker Room.

425
00:27:16,593 --> 00:27:18,113
They just drag
everything out until the

426
00:27:18,178 --> 00:27:19,600
parents just fold.
It's terrible.

427
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,526
But if they kept at it, you think a
parent could turn a school around?

428
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,944
No, the parents always give up.

429
00:27:26,103 --> 00:27:28,071
It's this whole big thing.

430
00:27:28,230 --> 00:27:29,607
Thank you, Collette.

431
00:27:33,277 --> 00:27:35,826
You have to find someone that
has the same idea as you do

432
00:27:35,904 --> 00:27:37,781
about the kind of
school that you want.

433
00:27:37,865 --> 00:27:39,117
Like who? A teacher?

434
00:27:39,241 --> 00:27:40,584
Yeah, like a teacher, or...

435
00:27:40,742 --> 00:27:42,790
The teachers and the parents,
they have to sign off on it,

436
00:27:42,870 --> 00:27:44,872
and then you have
to write a proposal,

437
00:27:44,955 --> 00:27:47,475
then you gotta jump through hoops
to deal with the school board.

438
00:27:47,499 --> 00:27:48,751
They make it near impossible.

439
00:27:48,917 --> 00:27:51,045
Parents need to just bang their
heads against a brick wall.

440
00:27:51,211 --> 00:27:53,555
It'd be a whole lot faster
and easier, let me tell you.

441
00:27:54,131 --> 00:27:56,054
I'm sorry.
No, no.

442
00:27:57,551 --> 00:27:58,723
Thanks for the coffee.

443
00:27:58,844 --> 00:28:00,061
Yeah.

444
00:28:00,220 --> 00:28:02,188
Sorry, I gotta
get back to work.

445
00:28:09,396 --> 00:28:10,648
Hey.

446
00:28:11,023 --> 00:28:13,071
They told me you'd be in here.

447
00:28:13,317 --> 00:28:14,318
Hi.

448
00:28:14,484 --> 00:28:16,157
Hi, I'm Nona, by the way.
I'm Jamie.

449
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:17,867
Sorry about last night.
Yeah. No.

450
00:28:17,988 --> 00:28:19,535
It was a bad night
for all of us.

451
00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:22,372
I asked about
Malia switching and...

452
00:28:22,451 --> 00:28:23,577
Yeah.

453
00:28:24,494 --> 00:28:26,417
And he said no?
Yeah.

454
00:28:30,042 --> 00:28:31,510
Okay, that's...

455
00:28:33,045 --> 00:28:34,888
I'm sorry. You're,
like, the only person

456
00:28:34,963 --> 00:28:37,807
who actually does what she says
she's gonna do around here.

457
00:28:40,552 --> 00:28:41,804
I'm sorry.

458
00:28:46,516 --> 00:28:48,735
You want to start
a school with me?

459
00:28:49,019 --> 00:28:50,111
What?

460
00:28:50,270 --> 00:28:52,318
'Cause I'm sick of this.

461
00:28:52,940 --> 00:28:54,988
I can't take this any more

462
00:28:55,067 --> 00:28:57,911
and somebody told
me that if you

463
00:28:57,986 --> 00:29:00,409
find a teacher and you
stick with it long enough

464
00:29:00,489 --> 00:29:01,866
you can turn a school around.

465
00:29:03,825 --> 00:29:07,079
'Cause I'm just so tired
of getting shafted here.

466
00:29:08,038 --> 00:29:10,336
Thing that keeps
me up at night is

467
00:29:10,499 --> 00:29:12,843
why do I got to
let her down on this?

468
00:29:17,047 --> 00:29:18,845
So you want to
start a school with me?

469
00:29:22,469 --> 00:29:26,770
Listen, I know what you're saying,
more than you might think.

470
00:29:26,932 --> 00:29:30,778
But I'm not who you're looking for.
I wish I could say I was.

471
00:29:30,936 --> 00:29:33,234
I work in sales,
where success rate

472
00:29:33,355 --> 00:29:35,699
is based on need.
And you got need.

473
00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:37,447
I saw it last night.
You don't want to

474
00:29:37,567 --> 00:29:39,285
get left behind,
and neither do I.

475
00:29:39,820 --> 00:29:41,163
So,

476
00:29:41,613 --> 00:29:44,207
I'm gonna go to
District tomorrow

477
00:29:44,324 --> 00:29:46,918
at 9 a.m., figure out
how to do this.

478
00:29:48,245 --> 00:29:52,000
Could you take a sick day
and meet me there?

479
00:29:56,253 --> 00:29:57,425
Please?

480
00:30:36,293 --> 00:30:37,761
Oh, God.

481
00:30:38,295 --> 00:30:39,638
Oh, jeez.

482
00:31:35,769 --> 00:31:37,191
Oh, man.

483
00:31:41,775 --> 00:31:43,527
I'm just here for
the information.

484
00:31:43,693 --> 00:31:46,334
I'm not saying I'm gonna do anything.
I'm just gonna hear them out.

485
00:31:46,488 --> 00:31:47,865
That's all I'm asking.

486
00:31:48,365 --> 00:31:49,412
Okay!

487
00:31:49,741 --> 00:31:51,209
Once you finish
your proposal...

488
00:31:51,618 --> 00:31:54,246
That's this
400-page document?

489
00:31:54,413 --> 00:31:55,630
Once that's filled out,

490
00:31:55,705 --> 00:31:58,174
then you need to request an
appointment to schedule a hearing

491
00:31:58,250 --> 00:31:59,410
in front of the school board.

492
00:31:59,459 --> 00:32:01,712
That needs to be made on
the first Tuesday of the month

493
00:32:01,795 --> 00:32:04,594
except January and April, when it
needs to come on the second Monday.

494
00:32:04,756 --> 00:32:06,758
So it's not the actual
date we're scheduling?

495
00:32:06,925 --> 00:32:08,518
Oh, no, ma'am. You're
scheduling an appointment

496
00:32:08,593 --> 00:32:09,845
to schedule the date.

497
00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:13,398
You're kidding, right?

498
00:32:13,557 --> 00:32:15,230
No. No, no, no.

499
00:32:15,392 --> 00:32:18,692
It's no joke.
It's a process.

500
00:32:18,854 --> 00:32:21,778
First, we gotta get 50% of the
parents, 50% of the teachers

501
00:32:21,857 --> 00:32:23,359
to sign a petition
in support of us.

502
00:32:23,483 --> 00:32:24,985
That's 400 parents,
18 teachers.

503
00:32:25,152 --> 00:32:26,574
Then we gotta do the proposal

504
00:32:26,736 --> 00:32:28,376
and submit it on
the first Groundhog's Day

505
00:32:28,530 --> 00:32:30,157
of the Chinese lunar leap year.

506
00:32:30,323 --> 00:32:33,042
There's nothing in the
rules about leap years.

507
00:32:33,201 --> 00:32:35,875
And then, finally, we get
that school board hearing.

508
00:32:36,037 --> 00:32:38,165
But the school board term
ends in two months,

509
00:32:38,248 --> 00:32:39,591
which means we've
gotta do this fast.

510
00:32:39,666 --> 00:32:43,011
We gotta book that hearing, and we
can get this going for next fall.

511
00:32:45,714 --> 00:32:46,966
Something funny?

512
00:32:47,132 --> 00:32:52,138
Start to finish, this process is
three to five years, minimum.

513
00:32:57,058 --> 00:32:59,732
It's just the way these people talk.
You can't go quitting now.

514
00:32:59,895 --> 00:33:01,456
Actually, I think
this is the best time.

515
00:33:01,563 --> 00:33:02,860
It's exactly what
they want us to do.

516
00:33:02,981 --> 00:33:04,233
They've done
a bang-up job.

517
00:33:04,399 --> 00:33:07,152
I can not ask 18 of my friends
to give up tenure and pension

518
00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:09,572
for a school where they're
not even guaranteed a job.

519
00:33:09,738 --> 00:33:11,661
I will. I'll do that.
Listen to me, all right?

520
00:33:12,282 --> 00:33:15,582
When I first started, I would
get so mad at those teachers.

521
00:33:15,744 --> 00:33:19,374
So mad at the checked-out zombies.
The Dawn of the Deborahs.

522
00:33:19,456 --> 00:33:21,504
Yes!
And they said just wait.

523
00:33:22,083 --> 00:33:24,427
Wait until you went through
eight different principals

524
00:33:24,586 --> 00:33:25,929
and parents who could care less

525
00:33:26,087 --> 00:33:27,464
and mountains of
district paperwork

526
00:33:27,631 --> 00:33:30,180
years of students
showing up hungry,

527
00:33:30,258 --> 00:33:31,851
showing up tired,
or not showing up at all.

528
00:33:31,927 --> 00:33:33,099
I can't have this not happen.
I need a teacher.

529
00:33:33,178 --> 00:33:36,148
You think you know what you're doing.
You have no idea.

530
00:33:36,973 --> 00:33:38,316
Where are you going?

531
00:33:38,433 --> 00:33:39,776
To figure out what
to do with my class.

532
00:33:39,935 --> 00:33:41,027
We don't have that option.

533
00:33:41,102 --> 00:33:43,855
'Cause Malia ended up across the hall.
How's that fair?

534
00:33:43,939 --> 00:33:44,940
It's not.

535
00:33:45,106 --> 00:33:47,985
Listen, I'll call you when I
get my first 100 parents.

536
00:33:48,068 --> 00:33:49,786
Or when I get my first 50!

537
00:33:49,861 --> 00:33:51,989
This is not over!

538
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,533
It's not over!

539
00:33:55,283 --> 00:33:57,832
I'm trying to explain to you
why your kid's tanking!

540
00:33:57,994 --> 00:34:02,044
No, honey, I'm not saying your
kid in particular is an idiot.

541
00:34:02,207 --> 00:34:04,301
Good morning. Here.
Give this to your mama.

542
00:34:04,793 --> 00:34:07,717
Here, will you take one?
Just take one. Take it.

543
00:34:08,463 --> 00:34:09,430
Oh, I know you!

544
00:34:09,506 --> 00:34:11,975
Your daughter is in Malia's class!
Sorry.

545
00:34:13,176 --> 00:34:14,177
Morning!

546
00:34:26,356 --> 00:34:27,733
Hey, Daddy Drop-off.

547
00:34:27,816 --> 00:34:28,908
Hi.

548
00:34:29,025 --> 00:34:31,198
My name is Jamie, my daughter
Malia's in the second grade here.

549
00:34:31,278 --> 00:34:32,279
Could I talk to you
for just one second?

550
00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:34,372
I'm running late. It's
cool, I'll walk with you.

551
00:34:34,531 --> 00:34:36,078
I just wanted to ask you if
you'd eat in a restaurant

552
00:34:36,157 --> 00:34:37,625
that had an F
hanging in the window.

553
00:34:37,701 --> 00:34:39,624
You wouldn't, right? 'Cause
there'd be rattails and stuff

554
00:34:39,703 --> 00:34:41,080
in the food, and people's hair.

555
00:34:41,162 --> 00:34:42,802
So now, just envisualize
something for me.

556
00:34:42,831 --> 00:34:44,833
Envisualize an F hanging on the
door of your kid's school.

557
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,252
Because it is, it's there.

558
00:34:46,334 --> 00:34:48,257
It's been hanging
there for 19 years,

559
00:34:48,378 --> 00:34:50,346
and nobody's done
anything about it.

560
00:34:50,839 --> 00:34:52,716
Rat tails,
you know what I mean?

561
00:34:53,216 --> 00:34:56,390
Take a look at that,
and sign that for me.

562
00:34:56,553 --> 00:34:57,770
And I'll find you at pick-up.

563
00:34:57,846 --> 00:34:59,098
Yeah, I'll look it over.

564
00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:01,437
Now you I know!

565
00:35:01,516 --> 00:35:03,518
You're gonna sign this. Okay?

566
00:35:10,358 --> 00:35:11,701
Excuse me!

567
00:35:12,694 --> 00:35:14,822
Why are we changing
all the desks around?

568
00:35:15,530 --> 00:35:19,000
'Cause we're gonna
try something new.

569
00:35:19,242 --> 00:35:20,835
How we do things.

570
00:35:20,994 --> 00:35:24,168
We're all gonna work a little harder.
Me included.

571
00:35:25,832 --> 00:35:26,833
Hey!

572
00:35:28,835 --> 00:35:30,837
Hi. Come on in.

573
00:35:31,004 --> 00:35:32,221
Thanks.

574
00:35:36,343 --> 00:35:37,845
Just give me a second here.

575
00:35:38,553 --> 00:35:39,554
Can't leave
the Man in Black hangin'.

576
00:35:39,721 --> 00:35:40,768
Oh, yeah.

577
00:35:42,182 --> 00:35:43,559
He's badass.

578
00:35:44,643 --> 00:35:45,644
What?

579
00:35:46,728 --> 00:35:48,730
Your sign. It's badass.

580
00:35:48,813 --> 00:35:50,531
Oh, yes.

581
00:35:51,399 --> 00:35:52,901
Yours isn't so bad either.

582
00:35:54,194 --> 00:35:55,411
Oh, no.

583
00:35:57,405 --> 00:35:58,452
Sorry.

584
00:35:58,948 --> 00:36:00,541
No, I'm sorry.

585
00:36:04,871 --> 00:36:06,623
Hi, how can I help you?

586
00:36:07,457 --> 00:36:09,209
I saw you teach.

587
00:36:10,377 --> 00:36:12,129
You're really good at it.

588
00:36:12,379 --> 00:36:13,631
Thank you.

589
00:36:14,130 --> 00:36:17,100
You think a whole school could be
like that, like how you do it?

590
00:36:18,385 --> 00:36:21,104
I don't know.
A whole school.

591
00:36:21,262 --> 00:36:23,435
I guess so.
It'd be pretty weird.

592
00:36:23,598 --> 00:36:26,602
Are you that lady
leading the charge outside?

593
00:36:26,685 --> 00:36:28,483
Yeah! Are people
talking about me already?

594
00:36:28,561 --> 00:36:29,562
Yeah, they are.

595
00:36:29,646 --> 00:36:32,616
So do you want to do that?
You want to start that school?

596
00:36:33,066 --> 00:36:34,363
Ahh...

597
00:36:34,442 --> 00:36:38,288
Do I want to start a school? No, I don't.
I just want to teach.

598
00:36:38,697 --> 00:36:39,818
So, what are you doing here?

599
00:36:39,906 --> 00:36:43,956
I chose to be here. Right
out of Teach For America.

600
00:36:47,122 --> 00:36:50,296
All right, Teacher For America.

601
00:36:51,793 --> 00:36:52,840
Meet me here

602
00:36:53,795 --> 00:36:55,342
at 8:00

603
00:36:56,965 --> 00:36:58,433
and I'll talk you into it.

604
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,302
All right, we'll see.

605
00:37:10,061 --> 00:37:11,984
Hey! Oh, good!

606
00:37:12,147 --> 00:37:14,445
Good, you got my message.

607
00:37:14,607 --> 00:37:16,575
Look at those nails. Wow.

608
00:37:16,735 --> 00:37:18,282
Cheaper than therapy.

609
00:37:19,946 --> 00:37:21,289
53 parents?

610
00:37:21,489 --> 00:37:22,832
Yep.

611
00:37:23,825 --> 00:37:25,953
It is crazy how
bad they want it.

612
00:37:26,786 --> 00:37:27,833
So, what are you drinking?

613
00:37:27,996 --> 00:37:29,088
Fresca.

614
00:37:29,247 --> 00:37:31,670
Okay. Better pace yourself.

615
00:37:31,833 --> 00:37:35,838
So I'm thinking we get the parents
to sell it to the teachers.

616
00:37:36,004 --> 00:37:38,348
Which we can totally do.
We do, like, an event.

617
00:37:38,506 --> 00:37:40,634
Because we can do
this in two months.

618
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,473
We do an event,
like at the dealership.

619
00:37:42,552 --> 00:37:45,977
Like an all-out blowout sale.
Something really big.

620
00:37:47,265 --> 00:37:49,017
And I got you some help.

621
00:37:49,601 --> 00:37:51,353
I don't want anyone
knowing about this.

622
00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:52,520
I didn't say you were doing it.

623
00:37:52,687 --> 00:37:53,688
I'm not in it.

624
00:37:53,855 --> 00:37:55,482
He's gonna help.
Trust me.

625
00:37:55,648 --> 00:37:57,525
He thinks this is a date. No.

626
00:37:59,694 --> 00:38:01,367
Yeah. Maybe.

627
00:38:06,868 --> 00:38:08,962
Hey.

628
00:38:09,037 --> 00:38:10,277
I told you I
worked here, right?

629
00:38:10,288 --> 00:38:11,460
No.

630
00:38:14,375 --> 00:38:16,503
Hi. Hey, Nona.

631
00:38:17,003 --> 00:38:18,880
How's it going?
Good.

632
00:38:19,047 --> 00:38:20,515
So, what are you drinking?

633
00:38:21,549 --> 00:38:22,641
JD, straight up.

634
00:38:22,717 --> 00:38:23,764
All right.

635
00:38:24,219 --> 00:38:29,146
So I wanted you to come because
Nona's doing the school thing...

636
00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:30,729
Nana's not doing
the school thing.

637
00:38:30,892 --> 00:38:33,190
...and we need some help getting
other teachers on board.

638
00:38:33,353 --> 00:38:34,605
And I've been
asking around about you.

639
00:38:34,729 --> 00:38:36,026
Everyone who
knows you likes you.

640
00:38:36,189 --> 00:38:38,817
And everybody who doesn't
calls you Sexy Texy.

641
00:38:42,195 --> 00:38:45,415
Well, like I told you, I'm just
interested in teaching so...

642
00:38:45,573 --> 00:38:47,746
Yeah, but you got free whiskey.

643
00:38:47,909 --> 00:38:50,082
So sit for a minute
and listen to the lady.

644
00:38:50,411 --> 00:38:51,754
Okay.

645
00:38:52,580 --> 00:38:53,581
Go, Nona.

646
00:38:55,667 --> 00:38:56,839
Well, if I did it...

647
00:38:56,918 --> 00:38:58,420
And I'm not saying that I am.

648
00:38:58,586 --> 00:39:00,509
We would have to
see how our school

649
00:39:00,630 --> 00:39:02,553
with the same kids
could do even better.

650
00:39:02,924 --> 00:39:07,395
Now, staff participation in the
classroom, articulated course curriculum,

651
00:39:07,554 --> 00:39:11,400
that would mean changing the
whole culture of the school.

652
00:39:12,392 --> 00:39:15,020
Basically, we would have to be the
teachers who made us teachers,

653
00:39:15,103 --> 00:39:16,980
but even better.

654
00:39:17,146 --> 00:39:19,365
Would the teachers
still be union?

655
00:39:20,567 --> 00:39:23,992
Can't be. Our contract has
too many restrictions.

656
00:39:24,153 --> 00:39:25,996
Because that matters a lot.

657
00:39:26,155 --> 00:39:30,535
Okay, so in two days, I got
53 parents and two teachers.

658
00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:32,170
I didn't...
I'm not getting...

659
00:39:32,328 --> 00:39:34,831
I see your lips moving,
but I can't hear you.

660
00:39:34,998 --> 00:39:36,341
You want a refill?

661
00:39:37,333 --> 00:39:38,334
Thank you.

662
00:39:38,459 --> 00:39:41,963
<i>Things are really coming to a head here.
The protestors are defiant.</i>

663
00:39:42,130 --> 00:39:45,680
<i>They're throwing bricks
and poles and trash cans.</i>

664
00:39:45,842 --> 00:39:47,219
Good night, Daniel.

665
00:39:48,887 --> 00:39:51,231
So this is good.

666
00:39:53,141 --> 00:39:54,233
Throwing bricks?

667
00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:55,609
How's that good?

668
00:39:55,852 --> 00:39:59,652
Because it's... You know, they're
lettin' themselves be heard.

669
00:39:59,814 --> 00:40:02,784
It's a waste of time.
It doesn't do anything.

670
00:40:02,942 --> 00:40:04,990
Doesn't do anything?
Really?

671
00:40:05,153 --> 00:40:06,325
You don't believe that.

672
00:40:06,446 --> 00:40:07,663
I don't know.

673
00:40:07,822 --> 00:40:09,369
Like civil rights.

674
00:40:09,449 --> 00:40:12,248
The Selma to Montgomery marches.
All that's a waste of time?

675
00:40:14,037 --> 00:40:15,539
It sends a message.

676
00:40:16,122 --> 00:40:18,466
I mean, that's what
you're doing, isn't it?

677
00:40:18,833 --> 00:40:20,835
No, I just want a
better school for my kid.

678
00:40:23,588 --> 00:40:25,181
Sending a message
is what people who

679
00:40:25,340 --> 00:40:26,901
don't work two jobs
have got time to do.

680
00:40:27,008 --> 00:40:29,181
Can you turn those
lights out for me? Yeah.

681
00:40:36,309 --> 00:40:37,982
You know what?
I really do appreciate

682
00:40:38,102 --> 00:40:39,775
what you're doing
to change the place.

683
00:40:39,938 --> 00:40:42,441
Course.
She's my kid.

684
00:40:45,026 --> 00:40:47,495
And her father,
does he help out at all?

685
00:40:47,654 --> 00:40:48,746
Nope.

686
00:40:50,782 --> 00:40:54,286
I'm sorry. When I drink,
I ask nosy questions.

687
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:56,750
When I drink, I marry losers.

688
00:40:59,832 --> 00:41:03,006
Yeah, I'd say he's
definitely a loser now.

689
00:41:03,252 --> 00:41:05,300
I think so.
Yeah.

690
00:41:05,588 --> 00:41:08,057
And Malia is a winner,
'cause she's got you.

691
00:41:08,216 --> 00:41:10,059
You need to work on your lines.

692
00:41:10,218 --> 00:41:13,688
That wasn't a line. No, no, no,
it wasn't a line. I'm sorry.

693
00:41:13,846 --> 00:41:17,567
I've been around kids
a lot more than women lately.

694
00:41:17,725 --> 00:41:19,523
That's not a line?

695
00:41:20,228 --> 00:41:22,322
It's not a line.
It's true.

696
00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:26,655
Kids, you know, kids just say what's what.
Women don't do that so much.

697
00:41:26,818 --> 00:41:28,161
Except for you.

698
00:41:28,903 --> 00:41:32,077
That's true. Foot in the
horse's mouth, that's me.

699
00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:33,457
Yeah.

700
00:41:35,243 --> 00:41:36,790
That's why I like you.

701
00:41:38,454 --> 00:41:42,129
That was a line.
I admit it.

702
00:41:54,137 --> 00:41:55,764
No. Cody.

703
00:41:56,097 --> 00:41:58,316
You got this, I know you do.

704
00:41:58,391 --> 00:42:00,314
Yeah, is this
retard-proof?

705
00:42:00,476 --> 00:42:01,523
Stop saying that.

706
00:42:01,602 --> 00:42:02,694
Whole school knows it.

707
00:42:04,188 --> 00:42:05,610
Are they giving
you a hard time?

708
00:42:05,773 --> 00:42:08,822
Can't I just go to the school near
Uncle Roy while Dad's living with him?

709
00:42:18,161 --> 00:42:19,162
Pow!

710
00:42:21,497 --> 00:42:22,623
Hi.
Hi.

711
00:42:22,790 --> 00:42:24,258
Come on in, Malia.

712
00:42:24,584 --> 00:42:27,007
Nice. Yeesh!
Oh, no.

713
00:42:27,170 --> 00:42:28,638
Cody.

714
00:42:31,632 --> 00:42:33,555
Ooh la la.
Cody.

715
00:42:34,552 --> 00:42:36,429
Why don't you show Malia around
till your dad comes, okay?

716
00:42:36,512 --> 00:42:37,559
Oh, no, no, he doesn't have to.

717
00:42:37,638 --> 00:42:39,106
She's got her DVD player,
she's good.

718
00:42:39,182 --> 00:42:40,729
- Can I watch?
- Yeah, sure.

719
00:42:40,808 --> 00:42:42,902
He's not allowed to watch
TV during the day.

720
00:42:46,397 --> 00:42:47,990
Do you guys want a Snickers?

721
00:42:53,863 --> 00:42:54,989
Come on.

722
00:42:55,656 --> 00:42:57,533
Come on in.
Yeah, go ahead.

723
00:42:58,117 --> 00:43:01,462
I know you're trepidatious
about this whole school thing

724
00:43:01,621 --> 00:43:03,589
and I don't wanna take up
your whole Saturday.

725
00:43:05,792 --> 00:43:07,590
But just to start off the bat,

726
00:43:09,128 --> 00:43:11,256
here is a flier that I made

727
00:43:11,798 --> 00:43:13,641
for the rally.

728
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,060
Get it?
Parentrooper, paratrooper?

729
00:43:19,597 --> 00:43:20,769
Yeah.

730
00:43:21,224 --> 00:43:23,318
That one came to me
from the dead of sleep.

731
00:43:23,476 --> 00:43:28,027
I like it. Except there's a typo, unless
you're gonna have the rally in 2101.

732
00:43:28,189 --> 00:43:29,441
Oh, no.

733
00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:33,403
Yeah,
I'm terrible with numbers.

734
00:43:34,612 --> 00:43:37,707
I also have some
ideas for the school.

735
00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:40,368
About how to make the
school more effectual.

736
00:43:40,451 --> 00:43:41,577
Okay.

737
00:43:42,495 --> 00:43:45,294
So drawing outside the box,

738
00:43:46,207 --> 00:43:47,925
I don't know why,
but I started to think

739
00:43:48,042 --> 00:43:49,760
about those dumb
self-help books

740
00:43:49,919 --> 00:43:52,798
because there's always, like,
a little bit of truth in them.

741
00:43:52,964 --> 00:43:57,765
Like, for example, the whole
Secret-ing thing is so lame. I know.

742
00:43:57,927 --> 00:44:01,181
But I'm still envisualizing
that check in my mailbox.

743
00:44:01,347 --> 00:44:03,145
And I started thinking,

744
00:44:05,101 --> 00:44:08,446
you know, maybe the kids
could Secret things,

745
00:44:08,896 --> 00:44:11,866
like, you know,
I don't know, like...

746
00:44:13,526 --> 00:44:14,743
Like going to college.

747
00:44:14,902 --> 00:44:17,325
And they could
picture themselves

748
00:44:17,780 --> 00:44:22,957
going there and walking on the
campus and actually graduating.

749
00:44:23,119 --> 00:44:25,372
And I think that that
would be good for them

750
00:44:26,164 --> 00:44:27,711
to see themselves that way.

751
00:44:31,252 --> 00:44:32,549
You think that's dumb.

752
00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:36,974
I think it's a knockout.

753
00:44:38,134 --> 00:44:39,135
Really?

754
00:44:40,595 --> 00:44:41,847
Yeah.

755
00:44:44,348 --> 00:44:45,565
Really?

756
00:44:45,933 --> 00:44:47,731
Oh, can you excuse me for a sec?
Yeah, sure.

757
00:44:47,894 --> 00:44:50,113
Cody, your dad's here!

758
00:44:54,317 --> 00:44:56,820
Why is Cody talking about
going to school near you?

759
00:44:59,113 --> 00:45:01,332
'Cause it's a great school, and
we can't afford anywhere else.

760
00:45:01,490 --> 00:45:03,788
Except that he's not gonna live
with you and your brother.

761
00:45:03,868 --> 00:45:04,869
So you, of all people,

762
00:45:04,952 --> 00:45:06,124
you'd stop him from
getting the right schooling?

763
00:45:06,204 --> 00:45:07,205
Not gonna happen.

764
00:45:07,288 --> 00:45:10,007
And I should trust your
judgment, given what happened?

765
00:45:11,792 --> 00:45:15,797
Once things settle down, he'll stop acting out.
That's all this is.

766
00:45:15,963 --> 00:45:18,011
Come on, Nona.
All-white school,

767
00:45:18,132 --> 00:45:20,226
remedial classroom.
It's killing him.

768
00:45:20,343 --> 00:45:21,344
Oh, hey.

769
00:45:21,677 --> 00:45:23,304
Nona, please listen to me.

770
00:45:23,429 --> 00:45:25,056
He needs his mother.

771
00:45:40,196 --> 00:45:42,290
How long have you
guys been split up?

772
00:45:42,448 --> 00:45:43,825
Not very.

773
00:45:43,991 --> 00:45:45,243
Yeah.

774
00:45:45,868 --> 00:45:47,211
Where were we?

775
00:45:47,703 --> 00:45:49,501
We were talking about
ideas for the school.

776
00:45:49,664 --> 00:45:53,544
Ideas, yeah.
I got boxes of ideas.

777
00:45:55,294 --> 00:45:59,140
You know, it comes down
to expecting more.

778
00:46:00,424 --> 00:46:05,271
From yourself, the teachers,
the kids, especially the kids.

779
00:46:09,475 --> 00:46:12,649
What?
My mom used to always say,

780
00:46:13,854 --> 00:46:16,698
"What are you gonna do with
your one and only life?"

781
00:46:23,531 --> 00:46:27,877
You are gonna be
so good at this.

782
00:46:36,085 --> 00:46:38,213
Hey.

783
00:46:49,682 --> 00:46:52,356
Nona, are you planning
to take over Adams?

784
00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:54,903
'Cause that's what we heard.

785
00:46:57,565 --> 00:46:59,033
What'd you hear?

786
00:47:01,068 --> 00:47:02,911
Someone from
District told Holland

787
00:47:03,070 --> 00:47:04,913
that you were
looking into it, but...

788
00:47:10,536 --> 00:47:13,915
I just went to ask.

789
00:47:14,081 --> 00:47:16,880
What? And you didn't tell us?
You didn't tell me?

790
00:47:17,043 --> 00:47:18,590
Maybe you don't want us
teaching at your school.

791
00:47:18,753 --> 00:47:20,130
Breena, now, come on...

792
00:47:20,212 --> 00:47:22,806
You know, I expect
my kids to be naive.

793
00:47:22,882 --> 00:47:25,476
Sneaking behind our backs,
non-union school.

794
00:47:25,634 --> 00:47:27,682
You're messing with our jobs.

795
00:47:34,685 --> 00:47:36,437
Coulda talked to me.

796
00:47:37,855 --> 00:47:39,528
Thought that we were friends.

797
00:47:48,741 --> 00:47:49,993
- Hi.
- Hi.

798
00:47:50,159 --> 00:47:51,706
Thank you so much for coming.
No, don't thank me.

799
00:47:51,786 --> 00:47:52,867
My neighbor's such a flake.

800
00:47:52,953 --> 00:47:54,045
No, it's all right.
I'm glad you called.

801
00:47:54,121 --> 00:47:55,122
Yeah.

802
00:47:56,791 --> 00:47:59,465
Malia, get up and say hey.
Don't be a brat.

803
00:48:00,753 --> 00:48:02,596
You remember Michael.

804
00:48:03,798 --> 00:48:06,392
I'm not gonna be out late.
There's Swansons in the freezer.

805
00:48:06,550 --> 00:48:08,177
'Kay. What's up?

806
00:48:10,638 --> 00:48:12,140
I'm just gonna write
down my number for you.

807
00:48:12,306 --> 00:48:13,523
Okay.

808
00:48:18,521 --> 00:48:23,197
Hey, I'm gonna teach you a
song from an ancient time.

809
00:48:23,776 --> 00:48:25,028
Wanna hear it?

810
00:48:28,072 --> 00:48:29,164
Cool.

811
00:48:30,699 --> 00:48:34,875
<i>There was a young girl
named Malia</i>

812
00:48:36,664 --> 00:48:40,259
<i>The coolest kid
you ever saw-lia</i>

813
00:48:41,043 --> 00:48:44,047
<i>But then she met me
And soon she would see</i>

814
00:48:44,213 --> 00:48:47,638
<i>She was gonna
have a ball-ia</i>

815
00:48:50,386 --> 00:48:51,512
Here you go. Malia.

816
00:48:53,305 --> 00:48:54,306
I love you.

817
00:48:55,641 --> 00:48:56,893
Call if you guys need me.

818
00:48:57,059 --> 00:48:58,106
Okay.

819
00:48:58,811 --> 00:49:00,028
What do you think?

820
00:49:02,690 --> 00:49:05,569
Sweet. I'm still
workin' on it.

821
00:49:09,447 --> 00:49:11,165
Nice place.

822
00:49:17,580 --> 00:49:18,832
You wanna try?

823
00:49:19,915 --> 00:49:22,088
Yeah, you wanna try.

824
00:49:24,128 --> 00:49:25,675
Just put your
finger right there.

825
00:49:25,838 --> 00:49:27,431
Right here?
Right there.

826
00:49:27,590 --> 00:49:29,308
And now hit all the strings.

827
00:49:30,176 --> 00:49:31,428
There it is.

828
00:49:34,263 --> 00:49:39,565
<i>There was a young girl
named Malia</i>

829
00:49:39,894 --> 00:49:41,862
All right, nice!

830
00:49:42,104 --> 00:49:43,356
You're a good listener.

831
00:49:43,522 --> 00:49:45,399
<i>She has a cool</i>

832
00:49:45,566 --> 00:49:49,412
<i>She had cool hair
and big smelly feet-ia</i>

833
00:49:53,574 --> 00:49:54,575
Hey.
Hey.

834
00:49:54,742 --> 00:49:56,039
Sucks about those teachers.

835
00:49:56,202 --> 00:49:58,500
Sucks even more
knowing they're right.

836
00:49:58,704 --> 00:50:00,744
Yeah, well, I brought you
something to cheer you up.

837
00:50:02,041 --> 00:50:05,966
I'm giving you these because I like you.
But I don't want to.

838
00:50:10,549 --> 00:50:12,426
This is my
bobblehead collection.

839
00:50:13,594 --> 00:50:15,062
Now, I counted out 18.

840
00:50:15,221 --> 00:50:18,020
We're gonna put one in the Tupperware
each time a teacher signs on

841
00:50:18,182 --> 00:50:22,278
and you are the first
black-and-gold medal winner.

842
00:50:22,853 --> 00:50:25,356
Sid The Kid or Hines Ward?

843
00:50:25,940 --> 00:50:27,362
Take a guess.

844
00:50:31,028 --> 00:50:32,280
Careful!

845
00:50:32,446 --> 00:50:34,619
You just wait and see how
quick this thing fills up.

846
00:50:34,782 --> 00:50:37,126
Now, we are locking these up.
Let's go get those parents.

847
00:50:38,536 --> 00:50:39,628
Who is it?

848
00:50:39,787 --> 00:50:42,791
Nona Alberts, I teach at Adams.

849
00:50:43,958 --> 00:50:45,710
Hey. This that parent
takeover thing?

850
00:50:45,876 --> 00:50:47,298
It's really not
a takeover, it's...

851
00:50:47,461 --> 00:50:48,929
Hey, Rhonda, it's Jamie.

852
00:50:49,088 --> 00:50:51,307
Yeah. Sorry, Jamie.
I'm giving my kid a bath.

853
00:50:51,465 --> 00:50:53,217
Can I just leave
you with a petition?

854
00:50:57,805 --> 00:51:00,479
Hi, Ms. Bennett. I'm Nona Alberts.
I teach at Adams

855
00:51:00,641 --> 00:51:02,985
and I was hoping that we could
talk to you about this district...

856
00:51:03,143 --> 00:51:05,316
Firing good teachers
to put in a school

857
00:51:05,479 --> 00:51:08,733
where I gotta work 20 hours
on top of my full-time.

858
00:51:08,899 --> 00:51:10,947
Go sell it to some other jerk.

859
00:51:11,110 --> 00:51:14,785
Those jerks, they're
called concerned parents!

860
00:51:14,989 --> 00:51:16,662
Who's telling her that?

861
00:51:17,741 --> 00:51:19,493
Is this what it's gonna
be like all night?

862
00:51:19,660 --> 00:51:21,412
Who's next?

863
00:51:21,745 --> 00:51:23,088
Wanda Williams.

864
00:51:23,998 --> 00:51:25,671
Who is it?

865
00:51:25,833 --> 00:51:27,506
This is Nona
Alberts from Adams.

866
00:51:27,668 --> 00:51:30,012
I heard about you.
I'm not interested.

867
00:51:30,296 --> 00:51:32,048
This is Nona Alberts
and Jamie Fitzpatrick.

868
00:51:32,172 --> 00:51:34,015
We need to talk
to you about Adams.

869
00:51:34,466 --> 00:51:36,309
I got the letter.
I'm not interested.

870
00:51:36,427 --> 00:51:38,270
Yeah, I got the letter already.

871
00:51:42,766 --> 00:51:44,860
Well, I don't
wanna hear about it.

872
00:51:45,352 --> 00:51:46,695
Who is it?

873
00:51:48,647 --> 00:51:50,524
Miss Maraval?

874
00:51:51,108 --> 00:51:52,701
This is Jamie Fitzpatrick.

875
00:51:52,776 --> 00:51:56,406
I sold you a Buick Regal
sedan a few months ago.

876
00:51:56,488 --> 00:52:01,119
I gave you a great deal. Would
you please give me 10 seconds?

877
00:52:06,290 --> 00:52:07,712
Come on in.

878
00:52:08,375 --> 00:52:11,094
Could they possibly squeeze
one more lie into this thing?

879
00:52:11,170 --> 00:52:12,797
Who wrote this?

880
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,178
Teachers Association
of Pennsylvania, maybe.

881
00:52:15,257 --> 00:52:17,225
It's their job to worry
about the Adams teachers.

882
00:52:17,384 --> 00:52:19,136
This is one school.

883
00:52:19,637 --> 00:52:23,232
I appreciate my union, but TAP
can get kinda hardcore about it.

884
00:52:23,891 --> 00:52:25,063
We'll get around this.

885
00:52:25,142 --> 00:52:27,270
So take me through
this one more time.

886
00:52:28,395 --> 00:52:30,489
A lot of these kids
can barely add,

887
00:52:30,606 --> 00:52:32,734
and you wanna be
teaching them geometry?

888
00:52:32,900 --> 00:52:34,994
Well, the problem is
is that no one expects

889
00:52:35,069 --> 00:52:36,309
them to do well, so they don't.

890
00:52:36,362 --> 00:52:38,831
Come on. Look around. I'm a cop.

891
00:52:38,906 --> 00:52:40,374
There's drugs, there's gangs...

892
00:52:40,449 --> 00:52:42,872
Change the school,
you change the neighborhood.

893
00:52:46,413 --> 00:52:47,585
Okay.

894
00:52:48,582 --> 00:52:50,425
I'll work on my neighbors.

895
00:52:50,584 --> 00:52:52,757
You really think you
could turn this around?

896
00:52:53,212 --> 00:52:54,930
Well, I can't say
for certain, but...

897
00:52:55,089 --> 00:52:56,807
100%, yes.

898
00:53:03,764 --> 00:53:05,766
Did you sign the petition?

899
00:53:05,933 --> 00:53:06,934
No?
No.

900
00:53:07,101 --> 00:53:08,381
You didn't sign the petition?
No.

901
00:53:08,477 --> 00:53:11,356
Do it. Sign the petition.
It's gonna change everything.

902
00:53:11,438 --> 00:53:12,940
Give me the T-shirt.
Take one.

903
00:53:17,277 --> 00:53:19,951
Hey. Make sure
you get a T-shirt.

904
00:53:20,614 --> 00:53:21,911
Hey. How you doin?

905
00:53:22,032 --> 00:53:23,329
Good.

906
00:53:23,492 --> 00:53:26,996
Hug. One of my
favorite students.

907
00:53:27,413 --> 00:53:28,585
You okay?
I've got my ruler.

908
00:53:28,664 --> 00:53:29,665
Hey.
Hi.

909
00:53:29,832 --> 00:53:31,129
You all right?

910
00:53:31,291 --> 00:53:32,793
Don't be a drag.
Go get in there.

911
00:53:38,257 --> 00:53:39,258
Did you guys sign?

912
00:53:39,383 --> 00:53:40,430
I did.

913
00:53:40,592 --> 00:53:42,469
Let me give you a ruler.

914
00:53:42,970 --> 00:53:45,439
We want it to be a
school where even at 3:00,

915
00:53:45,639 --> 00:53:49,985
if the students have any
issues or any problems,

916
00:53:50,102 --> 00:53:51,649
then it's up to
the teacher to stay.

917
00:53:51,812 --> 00:53:54,315
Which we can't do now because
of teachers union rules.

918
00:53:57,651 --> 00:54:00,746
Thank you so much for coming.
Here, have a cookie.

919
00:54:00,904 --> 00:54:02,747
Have a cookie.
Have one. Take it.

920
00:54:02,906 --> 00:54:05,785
Have a cookie. I've got a
great photo op coming up.

921
00:54:05,951 --> 00:54:09,000
And don't go burying us after
Doppler Weekend Forecast.

922
00:54:09,163 --> 00:54:12,793
Don't! I know your game, okay?

923
00:54:12,958 --> 00:54:15,507
I'm Jamie, by the way.
All right.

924
00:54:18,839 --> 00:54:20,591
<i>Hey. Oh!</i>

925
00:54:21,175 --> 00:54:25,476
<i>All right. Yeah,
we're goin' to school!</i>

926
00:54:36,732 --> 00:54:38,575
Yeah!

927
00:54:39,193 --> 00:54:43,198
It's crazy! You see
how bad they want it?

928
00:55:05,677 --> 00:55:07,304
Go get 'em, Jamie!

929
00:55:10,140 --> 00:55:14,441
I'm gonna keep this short, 'cause I get
trepidatious about group speaking.

930
00:55:16,188 --> 00:55:18,532
Adams is failing.

931
00:55:19,149 --> 00:55:20,776
This school is failing.

932
00:55:20,943 --> 00:55:22,411
And I can't afford to move,

933
00:55:22,486 --> 00:55:24,580
and I can't afford to put
my daughter somewhere else,

934
00:55:25,155 --> 00:55:27,249
so I'm screwed.

935
00:55:31,370 --> 00:55:35,466
And you know, I... Can I just
say, there's a time limit.

936
00:55:35,624 --> 00:55:37,342
There's a window
with these kids,

937
00:55:37,417 --> 00:55:38,839
and then after
that it's too late.

938
00:55:38,919 --> 00:55:40,091
You know what I'm sayin?

939
00:55:40,504 --> 00:55:42,677
And so we gotta do
something right now.

940
00:55:42,798 --> 00:55:45,017
We gotta do
something to fix it.

941
00:55:45,175 --> 00:55:47,269
Which is also why
I don't appreciate

942
00:55:47,386 --> 00:55:49,480
some scumbag from
TAP writing a letter

943
00:55:49,638 --> 00:55:52,517
with a bunch of lies about
what we're trying to do!

944
00:55:53,725 --> 00:55:56,524
Point here,
the thing I do wanna say,

945
00:55:56,687 --> 00:56:00,282
is we need to fix Adams, and
we need to fix it yesterday.

946
00:56:01,066 --> 00:56:02,568
Yeah!

947
00:56:02,734 --> 00:56:04,486
Now, I haven't
counted 'em all yet,

948
00:56:04,570 --> 00:56:08,370
but I know we have enough parent
petitions to start this thing!

949
00:56:09,449 --> 00:56:12,578
And, like that guy
Gandhi used to say:

950
00:56:12,744 --> 00:56:16,214
We gotta be the change
we wanna see!

951
00:56:22,629 --> 00:56:24,131
Your turn.

952
00:56:32,639 --> 00:56:35,859
All right, I've been
doing a lot of research

953
00:56:36,518 --> 00:56:38,520
and I read that there
are people out there

954
00:56:38,645 --> 00:56:40,693
designing and building prisons.

955
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:44,364
And those people
are looking at our schools

956
00:56:44,610 --> 00:56:47,454
and they're figuring out
what kids are gonna drop out

957
00:56:47,613 --> 00:56:50,162
so they know how many
prison cells to build.

958
00:56:52,117 --> 00:56:54,996
In the last 19 years,
seven out of ten kids

959
00:56:55,078 --> 00:56:57,297
who leave Adams
can barely read.

960
00:57:00,375 --> 00:57:03,379
And we wonder why Adams kids
end up in Penn State Prison

961
00:57:03,545 --> 00:57:06,173
instead of the
University of Pittsburgh.

962
00:57:07,049 --> 00:57:09,427
And you know what I want to
say to those prison folk?

963
00:57:10,469 --> 00:57:13,018
I wanna say...

964
00:57:13,639 --> 00:57:16,062
I wanna say, hands off my kid.

965
00:57:17,100 --> 00:57:18,101
Yeah!

966
00:57:18,268 --> 00:57:20,145
- Hands off our kids!
- Absolutely!

967
00:57:29,404 --> 00:57:31,577
Hands off our kids!

968
00:57:35,494 --> 00:57:40,045
<i>Hands off our kids!
Hands off our kids!</i>

969
00:57:40,207 --> 00:57:41,834
Hands off our kids!

970
00:57:43,543 --> 00:57:45,216
Watching you up there,
it was really...

971
00:57:45,337 --> 00:57:46,964
I don't know,
it reminded me of...

972
00:57:47,130 --> 00:57:48,973
Don't say your mother.

973
00:57:49,591 --> 00:57:52,219
Reminded me of something
I've been missing.

974
00:57:52,761 --> 00:57:54,001
It's really good
for the spirit.

975
00:57:54,054 --> 00:57:55,931
I know. Right?
Yeah.

976
00:57:56,390 --> 00:57:59,439
So how come you're not
buying what I'm selling?

977
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:02,733
Because of the whole
union-slamming thing.

978
00:58:02,896 --> 00:58:03,943
"Union-slamming"?
Yeah.

979
00:58:04,022 --> 00:58:05,569
I wasn't slamming the unions.
Yeah, the union-slamming.

980
00:58:05,649 --> 00:58:07,242
They wrote that letter.
That was true.

981
00:58:07,401 --> 00:58:08,744
I know they wrote that letter.

982
00:58:08,860 --> 00:58:10,300
I was saying
something that was true.

983
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:11,993
That's not the point.

984
00:58:13,407 --> 00:58:15,409
Look, Jamie,
when I was in high school

985
00:58:15,492 --> 00:58:17,085
I had this teacher
and his name was Mr. Cooper

986
00:58:17,244 --> 00:58:21,215
and he was, like, an incredible teacher.
He was like a father to me.

987
00:58:21,373 --> 00:58:22,920
And they tried to fire him

988
00:58:23,083 --> 00:58:25,711
because he was supposedly
teaching us works

989
00:58:25,794 --> 00:58:27,512
that were promoting
an immoral lifestyle.

990
00:58:27,671 --> 00:58:31,016
It was <i>Hair.</i>
It's a musical.

991
00:58:31,216 --> 00:58:34,060
There was all these, like, screaming meetings.
It got so ugly.

992
00:58:34,136 --> 00:58:35,763
But in the end
the union stood up,

993
00:58:35,971 --> 00:58:37,973
they protected him,
he kept his job

994
00:58:38,598 --> 00:58:43,229
and that's why I became a teacher.
He made me what I am.

995
00:58:44,062 --> 00:58:46,986
I just want a better school.

996
00:58:49,401 --> 00:58:52,405
I can't figure out how
to put it all together.

997
00:59:08,253 --> 00:59:10,096
Rally was an embarrassment.

998
00:59:10,172 --> 00:59:11,344
We used to be the heroes.

999
00:59:11,506 --> 00:59:13,304
When did Norma Rae
get to be the bad guy?

1000
00:59:13,467 --> 00:59:16,516
Right? I hate gettin'
called out like that.

1001
00:59:16,678 --> 00:59:18,726
Takes me right back
to third grade,

1002
00:59:18,847 --> 00:59:20,895
with Ray Franks bullying
me in the school yard.

1003
00:59:22,893 --> 00:59:24,520
I put a tack on his seat.

1004
00:59:24,936 --> 00:59:27,109
Yeah, I lost recess for a week.
But you know what I learned?

1005
00:59:27,272 --> 00:59:28,945
The futility of retaliation?

1006
00:59:29,399 --> 00:59:31,652
The truth of social Darwinism.

1007
00:59:32,611 --> 00:59:33,737
Hey.

1008
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,248
Did you write that
letter to the parents?

1009
00:59:37,407 --> 00:59:39,580
Yeah, course I did.

1010
00:59:39,743 --> 00:59:42,417
I'm just trying to stop the
pandemic of union-gutting

1011
00:59:42,496 --> 00:59:44,248
that's going on in
this country right now.

1012
00:59:44,414 --> 00:59:47,668
As if the teachers unions are
responsible for failing schools.

1013
00:59:47,834 --> 00:59:51,088
No need to convince me.
But, the letter was...

1014
00:59:51,254 --> 00:59:54,178
The letter was what? These
gals look motivated, yes?

1015
00:59:54,341 --> 00:59:55,388
They do, they do.

1016
00:59:55,550 --> 00:59:58,303
If they push this through, then
floodgates are gonna open,

1017
00:59:58,470 --> 01:00:00,017
a lot of schools
are gonna start falling apart,

1018
01:00:00,097 --> 01:00:02,137
and a lot of good teachers
are gonna get pushed out.

1019
01:00:02,182 --> 01:00:04,810
Folks don't get
that this is not good!

1020
01:00:04,976 --> 01:00:09,447
No. Because they
want change. Now.

1021
01:00:16,488 --> 01:00:17,489
'Scuse me.

1022
01:00:17,572 --> 01:00:19,574
I don't want it
to be like this.

1023
01:00:26,123 --> 01:00:29,753
I didn't tell you sooner because
I wasn't sure I wanted it.

1024
01:00:31,253 --> 01:00:33,722
And when I realized I did,

1025
01:00:35,048 --> 01:00:36,265
and how bad,

1026
01:00:38,260 --> 01:00:41,264
I was scared you'd say no,
or you'd be pissed off,

1027
01:00:41,429 --> 01:00:43,306
so I fouled up.

1028
01:00:44,808 --> 01:00:47,311
And it was my fault,
so I'm sorry.

1029
01:01:06,705 --> 01:01:08,548
I'm gonna call a meeting

1030
01:01:10,083 --> 01:01:12,552
to find out how we
can make this work.

1031
01:01:12,919 --> 01:01:14,387
If you want it.

1032
01:01:20,010 --> 01:01:21,887
Okay, this could
be our chance to be

1033
01:01:22,012 --> 01:01:23,889
the teachers we
always hoped to be.

1034
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,267
Who's saying we're not?

1035
01:01:33,273 --> 01:01:35,116
I really need you to
go to that meeting

1036
01:01:35,233 --> 01:01:37,034
and convince them.
They really look up to you.

1037
01:01:37,194 --> 01:01:38,696
I just wanna teach.

1038
01:01:38,862 --> 01:01:41,911
I just wanna put my feet up and
watch <i>Steelers Saturday Night,</i>

1039
01:01:41,990 --> 01:01:43,742
but I can't, do you
know what I'm saying?

1040
01:01:43,909 --> 01:01:45,035
I do.

1041
01:01:46,077 --> 01:01:49,251
It's just, I don't understand you.
You're confusing me.

1042
01:01:49,414 --> 01:01:51,917
I thought you were somebody
that stood up for things.

1043
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:56,471
And now it's not all
black-and-white and comfortable

1044
01:01:56,546 --> 01:01:58,139
and so you freeze?

1045
01:01:58,215 --> 01:01:59,933
I don't freeze,
I'm just not doing

1046
01:02:00,008 --> 01:02:01,768
what you want me to do.
There's a difference.

1047
01:02:03,470 --> 01:02:06,098
Hello to you too, missy.

1048
01:02:10,310 --> 01:02:12,062
She's 8 years old.

1049
01:02:12,270 --> 01:02:14,568
When she pushes you away,
it means she wants you more.

1050
01:02:14,731 --> 01:02:17,109
She should learn that that's
not how it works in the world.

1051
01:02:17,275 --> 01:02:19,073
She's fighting
me on everything.

1052
01:02:19,611 --> 01:02:23,411
Getting her to read is like
getting blood from a stone.

1053
01:02:23,573 --> 01:02:25,746
You know, she asked
if I would help her.

1054
01:02:26,534 --> 01:02:29,003
She didn't want me to tell you.
I don't really know why.

1055
01:02:31,081 --> 01:02:32,458
That's fine.

1056
01:02:41,841 --> 01:02:43,138
Will you come to this meeting?

1057
01:02:43,260 --> 01:02:44,512
I'll think about it.

1058
01:02:45,220 --> 01:02:47,018
Really?
Yeah.

1059
01:02:48,014 --> 01:02:49,266
Yeah.

1060
01:02:52,978 --> 01:02:54,025
What?

1061
01:02:55,563 --> 01:02:57,657
I've just never
been able to talk

1062
01:02:57,774 --> 01:02:59,868
smart people into
doing things before.

1063
01:03:02,028 --> 01:03:03,325
All right, all right.

1064
01:03:05,073 --> 01:03:07,201
Come on, Malia, dinner's ready.

1065
01:03:19,087 --> 01:03:20,179
Hey.

1066
01:03:23,300 --> 01:03:24,927
Go on, hurt me.

1067
01:03:26,261 --> 01:03:27,934
I got all your apologies.

1068
01:03:28,471 --> 01:03:29,723
I can explain.

1069
01:03:29,848 --> 01:03:31,100
No need, TAP already did.

1070
01:03:31,266 --> 01:03:32,563
What did they say?

1071
01:03:32,726 --> 01:03:34,228
What I already know.

1072
01:03:34,853 --> 01:03:37,026
That most of these
new schools fail.

1073
01:03:37,188 --> 01:03:38,531
You wanna know why?

1074
01:03:38,690 --> 01:03:41,785
Because no one has the first
idea how to run them.

1075
01:03:42,193 --> 01:03:44,321
Can you look me in the eye and
tell me that that won't happen?

1076
01:03:44,487 --> 01:03:46,034
I can't.
Well, that's great.

1077
01:03:46,239 --> 01:03:48,492
That's great.
What about all the kids

1078
01:03:48,575 --> 01:03:49,792
that are gonna get
left behind, huh?

1079
01:03:49,868 --> 01:03:51,495
Nobody gets left behind,
I promise.

1080
01:03:51,578 --> 01:03:54,297
And without a union contract,
teachers will get forced out.

1081
01:03:54,456 --> 01:03:56,754
Not teachers who wanna teach.

1082
01:04:02,505 --> 01:04:03,927
I'm just getting
through days, Nona.

1083
01:04:04,090 --> 01:04:06,343
So am I.
So are we all.

1084
01:04:06,926 --> 01:04:08,803
Breena, I'm just
trying to get back to

1085
01:04:08,928 --> 01:04:10,851
the way things were,
and I need you.

1086
01:04:17,854 --> 01:04:19,401
Hey, Ben, this is Jamie.

1087
01:04:19,564 --> 01:04:21,111
Hi, how you doin?

1088
01:04:23,651 --> 01:04:25,745
All right, so, look, I'm
gonna come to your meeting.

1089
01:04:25,904 --> 01:04:27,864
All right, that's all I can promise.
That's great.

1090
01:04:28,114 --> 01:04:30,458
Well, do you have any
questions we can answer now?

1091
01:04:30,950 --> 01:04:32,076
No. Good night.

1092
01:04:32,243 --> 01:04:34,086
Can I just pop in
and check the score?

1093
01:04:34,996 --> 01:04:36,248
What are you, a Penguins fan?

1094
01:04:36,706 --> 01:04:38,208
Don't insult me.

1095
01:04:39,125 --> 01:04:41,298
All right.
First playoff win.

1096
01:04:42,879 --> 01:04:45,849
1970. 2-1.
Oakland Seals.

1097
01:04:46,007 --> 01:04:48,430
Harbaruk scored on a one
timer from Wally Boyer.

1098
01:04:56,309 --> 01:04:57,686
What qualifies
you to run a school?

1099
01:04:57,852 --> 01:05:00,981
I mean, you're not exactly a shining
star in the classroom, are you?

1100
01:05:01,147 --> 01:05:02,148
Oh, shut it, Deb.

1101
01:05:02,315 --> 01:05:04,488
But the point is,
don't you wanna

1102
01:05:04,609 --> 01:05:06,828
have a say in what
gets taught and how?

1103
01:05:06,986 --> 01:05:08,988
I mean, we're the ones
who know these kids.

1104
01:05:09,739 --> 01:05:11,867
Now, you all have documents
with some thoughts,

1105
01:05:11,950 --> 01:05:14,248
but this is our
time to share ideas.

1106
01:05:14,327 --> 01:05:16,500
Yeah, but we won't be union.
Do you understand?

1107
01:05:17,831 --> 01:05:19,253
But will you be able to teach?

1108
01:05:19,416 --> 01:05:21,839
Are you guys not listening?
There is no union here.

1109
01:05:22,001 --> 01:05:24,345
If we're gonna make this work,
take the risk...

1110
01:05:27,715 --> 01:05:30,389
Yes, but listen, listen.
But listen.

1111
01:05:30,552 --> 01:05:33,396
The union won't allow
us to spend the time

1112
01:05:33,471 --> 01:05:35,223
that we have to
spend with them.

1113
01:05:35,306 --> 01:05:36,398
They won't do it.

1114
01:05:36,474 --> 01:05:38,192
Not only that,
what other business

1115
01:05:38,268 --> 01:05:41,317
says that you get a job for
life after two years? Come on!

1116
01:05:41,479 --> 01:05:42,776
Oh, no, don't do that.

1117
01:05:42,856 --> 01:05:45,655
Everybody wants to laser-focus
on how TAP protects bad teachers

1118
01:05:45,817 --> 01:05:47,178
when mostly they
protect good ones.

1119
01:05:47,318 --> 01:05:49,078
Yes, but you make it
harder for the good ones

1120
01:05:49,154 --> 01:05:50,656
when you protect the bad ones.

1121
01:05:50,738 --> 01:05:52,740
But you know what? We're
gonna give up something,

1122
01:05:52,824 --> 01:05:53,996
but we're also gonna get.

1123
01:05:54,075 --> 01:05:55,497
We all getting the same, Nona?

1124
01:05:55,660 --> 01:05:57,378
Or is it seniority?
Exactly.

1125
01:06:01,332 --> 01:06:03,835
It's all right
for you younger people.

1126
01:06:04,002 --> 01:06:05,003
Stop it, Ben.

1127
01:06:05,336 --> 01:06:08,260
Seriously. No. You just
keep going on and on.

1128
01:06:16,764 --> 01:06:18,937
You know what, who else
is in this for the money?

1129
01:06:19,142 --> 01:06:20,735
Put your hands up, come on!

1130
01:06:21,853 --> 01:06:23,355
I know I'm not
the only money-grubbing

1131
01:06:23,438 --> 01:06:25,315
bastard in the room!
Put your hands up!

1132
01:06:27,442 --> 01:06:30,537
I mean, seriously, why else are
we doing it if not for the money?

1133
01:06:31,070 --> 01:06:32,710
Why are we gettin' up
at the crack of dawn

1134
01:06:32,780 --> 01:06:34,874
and paying for pencils
out of our own paychecks

1135
01:06:35,033 --> 01:06:36,580
and babysitting screaming brats

1136
01:06:36,743 --> 01:06:38,336
for seven hours if
not for the money?

1137
01:06:39,037 --> 01:06:42,132
It's not like anyone in this room
ever wanted to teach, right?

1138
01:06:43,666 --> 01:06:47,421
And getting a school where we could
actually do what we wanna do,

1139
01:06:47,587 --> 01:06:49,134
who needs it, right?

1140
01:06:49,756 --> 01:06:50,757
Right?

1141
01:06:54,761 --> 01:06:55,933
You know what,

1142
01:06:56,304 --> 01:06:59,308
feel free to blow past
the dream school part

1143
01:06:59,474 --> 01:07:01,272
and skip to the cash
figures on page seven,

1144
01:07:01,392 --> 01:07:03,144
but either way,
do yourselves a favor.

1145
01:07:03,311 --> 01:07:05,905
Take the 10 minutes
and read the damn document.

1146
01:07:12,153 --> 01:07:13,450
"Dream school."

1147
01:07:13,655 --> 01:07:15,908
You'll march yourself right
into the welfare office.

1148
01:07:16,074 --> 01:07:17,872
Right out of here,
right into welfare.

1149
01:07:18,034 --> 01:07:19,411
Good riddance.

1150
01:07:23,331 --> 01:07:25,254
Who needs a pen?
I got one free.

1151
01:07:34,842 --> 01:07:35,889
Yes.

1152
01:07:36,052 --> 01:07:39,852
No, no, no.

1153
01:07:40,014 --> 01:07:41,186
Yes.

1154
01:07:41,349 --> 01:07:42,896
Yes, yes, yes.

1155
01:07:43,017 --> 01:07:44,564
Oh. Stop. Stop.

1156
01:07:44,727 --> 01:07:46,479
We got more. Yes.

1157
01:07:49,023 --> 01:07:51,617
Are you sure these are virgin?
'Cause I'm feeling something.

1158
01:07:51,901 --> 01:07:53,403
Yeah, it's called success.

1159
01:07:53,570 --> 01:07:54,913
No wonder it tastes new.

1160
01:08:04,956 --> 01:08:07,835
Yo, JD, get out there
and get these ladies to dance.

1161
01:08:08,293 --> 01:08:09,761
I don't dance, sorry.

1162
01:08:10,003 --> 01:08:12,222
Yes, you do.
I saw you dancing at school.

1163
01:08:12,839 --> 01:08:14,011
That was line dancing.

1164
01:08:14,173 --> 01:08:15,925
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
I liked that.

1165
01:08:16,092 --> 01:08:18,220
I'm in if he
takes his shirt off!

1166
01:08:19,929 --> 01:08:21,476
That's not gonna happen.

1167
01:08:21,556 --> 01:08:22,557
All right.

1168
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:25,018
All right, who here
knows the Texas Tush Push?

1169
01:08:25,184 --> 01:08:26,231
I kinda know it.

1170
01:08:26,519 --> 01:08:27,520
Come on, come on.

1171
01:08:27,687 --> 01:08:29,048
Okay, let's do this!
Come on, guys.

1172
01:08:29,105 --> 01:08:30,573
Give me, like,
two lines over here.

1173
01:08:30,732 --> 01:08:31,984
I like you again.

1174
01:08:35,737 --> 01:08:36,738
Proud of you.

1175
01:08:36,904 --> 01:08:39,032
Ready?
Okay, check it out.

1176
01:08:39,282 --> 01:08:42,752
All right, it's very simple. So we
start feet together. And you go:

1177
01:08:42,994 --> 01:08:45,998
Heel together, heel, heel.

1178
01:08:46,497 --> 01:08:49,467
We've got our parents,
we've got our teachers.

1179
01:08:50,001 --> 01:08:52,595
I am looking forward to
getting to that school board.

1180
01:08:52,754 --> 01:08:54,131
Heel, clap.

1181
01:08:54,297 --> 01:08:57,471
Maybe less <i>Riverdance</i> and a
little bit more, just like...

1182
01:08:57,634 --> 01:08:58,977
A little bit more.

1183
01:09:00,386 --> 01:09:02,138
I wanna see you dance.

1184
01:09:02,764 --> 01:09:04,016
Come on, I wanna see you dance.

1185
01:09:04,182 --> 01:09:06,685
I haven't danced since "Gettin' Jiggy
Wit it" and I wasn't jiggy then.

1186
01:09:06,851 --> 01:09:09,229
So it's time!
I wanna see you dance.

1187
01:09:09,395 --> 01:09:10,396
No! MICHAEL: Jamie, get up here.

1188
01:09:10,563 --> 01:09:12,565
Come out here. Come on.

1189
01:09:13,650 --> 01:09:15,823
That's right.
You get up here too, Nona.

1190
01:09:15,985 --> 01:09:17,202
No. I can't and I won't.

1191
01:09:17,362 --> 01:09:19,035
Come on, Nona!

1192
01:09:19,155 --> 01:09:20,873
No! No Nona!

1193
01:09:21,574 --> 01:09:23,451
Nona! Nona!

1194
01:09:23,618 --> 01:09:24,619
Come on.

1195
01:09:24,786 --> 01:09:26,038
Come on, come on.

1196
01:09:35,546 --> 01:09:37,594
Come on, let's shake
those hips, all right?

1197
01:09:37,757 --> 01:09:42,934
Here we go.
5, 6, 5, 6, 7, 8.

1198
01:09:48,935 --> 01:09:50,061
Clap.

1199
01:10:40,611 --> 01:10:42,989
Good morning.
I'm Evelyn Riske.

1200
01:10:43,156 --> 01:10:44,408
Yeah, I know who you are.

1201
01:10:44,574 --> 01:10:45,917
Do you have a moment?

1202
01:10:47,034 --> 01:10:48,911
Not unless you
wanna buy a Buick.

1203
01:10:49,078 --> 01:10:52,127
If you sell cars like you sell
schools, I'm walking out with one.

1204
01:10:52,290 --> 01:10:54,292
Don't talk down
to me, Ms. Riske.

1205
01:10:54,459 --> 01:10:56,006
Oh, I'm not.

1206
01:10:56,669 --> 01:10:58,421
Let me tell you why I'm here.
Yeah.

1207
01:10:59,088 --> 01:11:02,137
I still think it's a long shot
you get this by the Board.

1208
01:11:02,300 --> 01:11:05,019
But I can't ignore what you've
been able to do with the teachers.

1209
01:11:05,178 --> 01:11:07,055
And if you're gonna do this,

1210
01:11:07,138 --> 01:11:09,311
you might as well have all
the information possible.

1211
01:11:10,641 --> 01:11:12,814
There's a school
I want you to see.

1212
01:11:12,977 --> 01:11:14,445
They got a lot of great ideas.

1213
01:11:14,604 --> 01:11:16,606
Ideas you should look into.

1214
01:11:16,773 --> 01:11:19,071
How about you meet me there tomorrow.

1215
01:11:20,860 --> 01:11:23,283
Yeah, you gotta go.
She's itching to fire me.

1216
01:11:23,654 --> 01:11:24,951
Let me call you with a time.

1217
01:11:25,114 --> 01:11:26,115
Hold on one second.

1218
01:11:26,407 --> 01:11:28,125
Hank Hart Auto.
Please hold.

1219
01:11:30,244 --> 01:11:31,245
Yeah, okay.

1220
01:11:31,704 --> 01:11:32,876
Okay.
Perfect.

1221
01:11:32,997 --> 01:11:34,214
See you tomorrow.

1222
01:11:34,373 --> 01:11:35,716
Okay, good.
Hi. How are you?

1223
01:11:36,042 --> 01:11:37,715
Ideas are good.

1224
01:11:38,461 --> 01:11:40,054
I'm working.

1225
01:11:40,379 --> 01:11:43,508
I'm working.
Unlike your husband.

1226
01:11:43,716 --> 01:11:46,060
<i>This is the Department
of Education scheduling hotline.</i>

1227
01:11:46,135 --> 01:11:47,855
<i>- You are currently number...</i>
<i>- 45.</i>

1228
01:11:48,012 --> 01:11:49,104
<i>...in queue.</i>

1229
01:11:52,266 --> 01:11:54,439
Ms. Lopez?
I'm Nona Alberts.

1230
01:11:54,602 --> 01:11:57,042
I've been trying to get in touch
with you to talk about Adams.

1231
01:11:57,188 --> 01:11:58,280
You've got an appointment?

1232
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:00,032
The next available's
five weeks away.

1233
01:12:00,191 --> 01:12:01,911
I very much look forward
to seeing you then.

1234
01:12:02,068 --> 01:12:03,945
That's the day your term ends.

1235
01:12:04,111 --> 01:12:07,536
Look, I live and breathe this bureaucracy.
I share your frustration.

1236
01:12:07,698 --> 01:12:10,998
What can I say? I read Kafka
to make myself feel better.

1237
01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:14,209
I want a hearing for my
school before the term ends.

1238
01:12:14,330 --> 01:12:15,331
Dreams are important.

1239
01:12:15,456 --> 01:12:17,629
Then we don't stand a chance of
getting this done for next year.

1240
01:12:17,792 --> 01:12:21,046
Which you don't anyway,
not in this system.

1241
01:12:21,420 --> 01:12:24,139
But the time can
be a gift, trust me.

1242
01:12:24,298 --> 01:12:27,017
You'll hone your proposal,
build support.

1243
01:12:27,176 --> 01:12:30,271
Then you'll soon come
to embrace futility.

1244
01:12:30,429 --> 01:12:31,772
It's a win-win.

1245
01:12:31,931 --> 01:12:34,400
I can't wait. I won't.

1246
01:12:34,559 --> 01:12:36,607
See you in five weeks,
Ms. Alberts.

1247
01:12:39,438 --> 01:12:42,408
I'm sorry. I had to
take three buses.

1248
01:12:42,567 --> 01:12:44,160
And you're apologizing?

1249
01:12:46,654 --> 01:12:47,951
Wow.

1250
01:12:50,950 --> 01:12:53,920
My daughter would love this.

1251
01:12:54,078 --> 01:12:57,048
She wants to be a computer
engineer when she grows up.

1252
01:12:57,999 --> 01:13:00,343
While at the same time
being a hair colorist

1253
01:13:00,459 --> 01:13:02,803
and President of
the United States

1254
01:13:03,254 --> 01:13:06,349
and a veterinarian
for lost dogs.

1255
01:13:08,593 --> 01:13:11,767
My niece is gonna be
a professional princess.

1256
01:13:15,224 --> 01:13:16,521
Good luck to her.

1257
01:13:18,019 --> 01:13:19,441
I know.

1258
01:13:20,605 --> 01:13:22,323
So when you picture
the perfect school

1259
01:13:22,481 --> 01:13:24,233
for Malia, what's it look like?

1260
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:25,652
Like this.

1261
01:13:26,068 --> 01:13:28,196
That's why I
wanted you to see it.

1262
01:13:28,362 --> 01:13:29,989
I know Malia has dyslexia

1263
01:13:30,156 --> 01:13:33,501
and most private schools are not
helpful with learning disabilities.

1264
01:13:33,743 --> 01:13:35,086
This one is.

1265
01:13:35,244 --> 01:13:37,497
Yeah, I'd never want her to
be in the dumb kids' class.

1266
01:13:37,663 --> 01:13:39,836
Oh, they don't do that here.
No otherness.

1267
01:13:39,999 --> 01:13:43,344
They do it right, but it took
them years to get it right.

1268
01:13:43,502 --> 01:13:46,255
And that's why I worry for
you with your school.

1269
01:13:46,422 --> 01:13:48,675
You've looked into all the
possibilities for her, right?

1270
01:13:48,841 --> 01:13:50,041
While you're working on Adams?

1271
01:13:50,176 --> 01:13:53,020
Oh, man. I have. I just
can't afford anything else.

1272
01:13:53,179 --> 01:13:55,932
The tuition's 23 grand.
That's what I make in a year.

1273
01:13:56,098 --> 01:13:57,520
Schools have aid packages.

1274
01:13:57,683 --> 01:13:59,936
Almost half
the kids here get help.

1275
01:14:00,102 --> 01:14:01,524
Let me put in
a good word for you.

1276
01:14:03,856 --> 01:14:06,860
What, for Malia to
have a scholarship here?

1277
01:14:11,530 --> 01:14:12,952
Are you buying me off?

1278
01:14:13,199 --> 01:14:15,076
I'm giving you an option.

1279
01:14:15,868 --> 01:14:18,417
Which is the
whole point, right?

1280
01:14:19,372 --> 01:14:22,876
Look, I'm not against what you're
doing, but it is so complicated.

1281
01:14:23,042 --> 01:14:24,885
We gotta catch up.
You need to give us time.

1282
01:14:25,044 --> 01:14:26,921
No, I don't have time.

1283
01:14:27,213 --> 01:14:28,465
But you're a great mother.

1284
01:14:28,714 --> 01:14:32,469
You really wanna sacrifice your
child's interests to send a message?

1285
01:14:34,887 --> 01:14:37,106
Okay, so how about Nona?

1286
01:14:38,057 --> 01:14:40,651
Sometimes public
school teachers

1287
01:14:40,810 --> 01:14:43,734
have a really hard time sending
their kids to private schools.

1288
01:14:43,896 --> 01:14:46,115
It's silly, because half the
Board of Ed's kids go here.

1289
01:14:46,273 --> 01:14:47,741
Really?
Yeah.

1290
01:14:47,900 --> 01:14:50,904
You come on board though, and it
might make it easier for Nona.

1291
01:14:52,863 --> 01:14:54,240
The numbers don't lie.

1292
01:14:54,782 --> 01:14:57,160
At Adams, 2% get to college.

1293
01:14:57,326 --> 01:14:59,749
Here, 2% don't.

1294
01:15:01,622 --> 01:15:03,340
That's crazy.

1295
01:15:10,965 --> 01:15:15,311
All-out war is how we gotta look
at it with this school board.

1296
01:15:16,429 --> 01:15:18,102
Still no read on Olivia

1297
01:15:19,098 --> 01:15:22,102
despite my e-mail assault.

1298
01:15:22,852 --> 01:15:26,106
Schwartz might be our only yes.

1299
01:15:26,272 --> 01:15:28,024
She likes new things.

1300
01:15:28,190 --> 01:15:29,658
Southwick,

1301
01:15:29,817 --> 01:15:33,117
she'll go no. She's had five
campaigns underwritten by TAP.

1302
01:15:33,946 --> 01:15:37,496
Same with Brandt, he's a
stickler for line-item stuff.

1303
01:15:37,658 --> 01:15:40,332
Parrish, Mannie,

1304
01:15:40,494 --> 01:15:43,623
who knows?
But I'm guessing no.

1305
01:15:43,789 --> 01:15:46,133
King, he's a wild card.

1306
01:15:46,292 --> 01:15:48,795
Apparently he's been legally
dead since the late '90s.

1307
01:15:49,045 --> 01:15:50,547
He sleeps through the meetings

1308
01:15:50,629 --> 01:15:53,132
and then he shows a faint
pulse right before the vote.

1309
01:15:53,299 --> 01:15:54,300
So.

1310
01:15:54,675 --> 01:15:58,145
We might be looking at
six out of seven votes

1311
01:15:58,804 --> 01:15:59,976
against us.

1312
01:16:02,975 --> 01:16:05,398
And that's if we
even get a hearing.

1313
01:16:07,354 --> 01:16:08,526
What's wrong?

1314
01:16:09,523 --> 01:16:10,649
Nothing.

1315
01:16:12,485 --> 01:16:14,408
It's just Malia stuff.

1316
01:16:16,822 --> 01:16:18,165
Okay.

1317
01:16:45,226 --> 01:16:47,570
I think I'm gonna
run for School Board.

1318
01:16:47,728 --> 01:16:50,026
See all those Beemers outside?

1319
01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:52,737
What's wrong with you?
You seem antsy.

1320
01:16:52,900 --> 01:16:54,527
It just bugs me.

1321
01:16:54,860 --> 01:16:56,077
Oh, here she comes.

1322
01:16:56,237 --> 01:16:57,955
Oh, jeez.

1323
01:16:59,198 --> 01:17:02,418
I read through those ideas.
Very impressive.

1324
01:17:02,576 --> 01:17:03,702
Thank you.

1325
01:17:03,869 --> 01:17:07,965
But we've heard lots of
big ideas about schools.

1326
01:17:08,124 --> 01:17:09,671
Big ideas are big fun,

1327
01:17:09,792 --> 01:17:11,635
but you can sink or swim
on the practical ones.

1328
01:17:11,710 --> 01:17:12,711
I have those too.

1329
01:17:12,878 --> 01:17:13,925
Ones that work.

1330
01:17:14,046 --> 01:17:15,138
Come watch me teach.

1331
01:17:15,297 --> 01:17:16,549
I don't usually do that.

1332
01:17:16,715 --> 01:17:17,955
Then how do you
know what works?

1333
01:17:20,052 --> 01:17:21,053
I'll consider it.

1334
01:17:21,428 --> 01:17:23,430
In time for us to get
a hearing this year?

1335
01:17:23,597 --> 01:17:25,474
Don't you know
the moral of Icarus?

1336
01:17:25,641 --> 01:17:27,234
Yeah, wear sunscreen.

1337
01:17:29,895 --> 01:17:31,943
That's a little
post-modern.

1338
01:17:32,106 --> 01:17:33,608
I'll give it some thought.

1339
01:17:33,774 --> 01:17:36,072
And I did like your ideas.

1340
01:17:42,908 --> 01:17:44,581
She liked our ideas.

1341
01:17:44,743 --> 01:17:45,995
They're your ideas.

1342
01:17:46,162 --> 01:17:48,585
Shut up and take
the compliment.

1343
01:17:52,084 --> 01:17:53,961
Hi, I'm Jamie Fitzpatrick.
Go ahead.

1344
01:17:54,128 --> 01:17:55,254
Thanks.

1345
01:17:55,421 --> 01:17:58,345
Hi. I'm not gonna take it. I'm
not gonna take the scholarship.

1346
01:17:58,507 --> 01:18:00,680
Our school's gonna work out.
Our ideas are really good.

1347
01:18:01,177 --> 01:18:04,101
And my daughter is already gonna
have a hard time respecting me

1348
01:18:04,180 --> 01:18:05,557
'cause I didn't go to college.

1349
01:18:05,681 --> 01:18:10,152
If I also give up, sell out,
screw over my friends...

1350
01:18:10,352 --> 01:18:11,604
Your daughter will respect you

1351
01:18:11,687 --> 01:18:13,655
because you made
the right decision for her.

1352
01:18:13,772 --> 01:18:14,773
In your opinion.

1353
01:18:14,940 --> 01:18:17,034
In my educated opinion, yes.

1354
01:18:21,697 --> 01:18:24,120
And what about Nona and her son

1355
01:18:24,283 --> 01:18:26,331
and all the other kids at Adams

1356
01:18:26,410 --> 01:18:27,971
who you're not
offering scholarships to?

1357
01:18:28,037 --> 01:18:30,540
Look, I admire your ideals.

1358
01:18:30,706 --> 01:18:32,708
But Malia will suffer for them.

1359
01:18:33,167 --> 01:18:34,840
In your educated opinion.

1360
01:18:35,002 --> 01:18:36,219
No, that's a fact.

1361
01:18:36,378 --> 01:18:37,379
Don't do that.

1362
01:18:38,005 --> 01:18:40,303
Don't use my
daughter to scare me.

1363
01:18:42,509 --> 01:18:46,639
There's another thing that's bugging me.
You knew about her dyslexia.

1364
01:18:47,223 --> 01:18:49,103
You must have been talking
to somebody at Adams.

1365
01:18:49,183 --> 01:18:51,151
Okay, now you're
being paranoid.

1366
01:18:51,310 --> 01:18:52,812
It's not paranoid if it's true.

1367
01:18:52,978 --> 01:18:54,070
No.

1368
01:18:54,980 --> 01:18:56,732
You have no idea what's true

1369
01:18:56,857 --> 01:18:58,655
and what's not,
so let me help you with that.

1370
01:19:00,986 --> 01:19:05,332
My parents organized
the first union

1371
01:19:05,491 --> 01:19:10,088
in a textile mill in Marion, South
Carolina in October of 1967

1372
01:19:10,246 --> 01:19:13,716
and as a daughter,
I know what it cost.

1373
01:19:14,667 --> 01:19:16,920
And the truth is,
at the end of the day,

1374
01:19:17,086 --> 01:19:19,509
it's very unlikely
you'll get your school.

1375
01:19:20,047 --> 01:19:22,015
Your daughter will
still be at Adams.

1376
01:19:22,675 --> 01:19:24,677
And you will have deprived her

1377
01:19:24,843 --> 01:19:26,891
of the one opportunity
to turn her life around

1378
01:19:27,054 --> 01:19:28,897
so that she can become
a computer engineer

1379
01:19:29,014 --> 01:19:30,857
and President
of the United States

1380
01:19:31,016 --> 01:19:33,519
and a veterinarian
for lost dogs.

1381
01:19:37,564 --> 01:19:39,237
And there's your truth.

1382
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:49,452
Thanks.

1383
01:20:19,398 --> 01:20:20,445
You can't be here.

1384
01:20:20,607 --> 01:20:22,951
How come you didn't tell
me about Riske's offer?

1385
01:20:23,861 --> 01:20:25,204
She called you already?

1386
01:20:25,362 --> 01:20:26,909
You just had lunch.

1387
01:20:28,115 --> 01:20:29,583
Can I talk to you outside?

1388
01:20:29,742 --> 01:20:31,085
This is not break.

1389
01:20:31,243 --> 01:20:33,917
I can't talk to you in here.
Can I talk to you, please?

1390
01:20:35,205 --> 01:20:37,879
Jamie, you just took
an hour and a half for lunch!

1391
01:20:38,042 --> 01:20:40,340
I didn't do anything.

1392
01:20:40,419 --> 01:20:42,342
I was just talking to her.
Yes, you did do something.

1393
01:20:42,421 --> 01:20:44,674
I didn't want to upset you. Could
you give me a break, please?

1394
01:20:44,757 --> 01:20:45,804
I'm talkin' to Hank.

1395
01:20:45,966 --> 01:20:47,718
Would you do that?
Could you get me down

1396
01:20:47,843 --> 01:20:49,595
to one job by
the end of the day?

1397
01:20:49,762 --> 01:20:51,139
Anyway...
What?

1398
01:20:51,305 --> 01:20:52,898
No, it doesn't matter.

1399
01:20:53,015 --> 01:20:54,608
It matters! It matters!
You lied to me.

1400
01:20:54,767 --> 01:20:57,111
Not telling you is not the
same thing as lying to you!

1401
01:20:57,269 --> 01:20:59,943
Yes, it is! What, to a second grader?
What did you say to me?

1402
01:21:00,105 --> 01:21:02,324
"She's the only one here who does
what she says she's gonna do."

1403
01:21:02,399 --> 01:21:03,742
That's what you said!

1404
01:21:03,901 --> 01:21:05,778
How is that workin' for you?
I said no!

1405
01:21:05,944 --> 01:21:07,537
Why? Why?
What did you...

1406
01:21:07,654 --> 01:21:09,247
Because I believe in you!

1407
01:21:15,621 --> 01:21:18,295
What great thing
happened to me?

1408
01:21:19,458 --> 01:21:21,927
I got a phone call from Tyler.

1409
01:21:22,127 --> 01:21:25,552
And he called me on the
phone number I gave out.

1410
01:21:25,798 --> 01:21:27,266
Why'd you call me, Tyler?

1411
01:21:27,549 --> 01:21:28,550
I had a question.

1412
01:21:28,634 --> 01:21:32,434
He had a question
about the famous speech

1413
01:21:32,513 --> 01:21:34,140
I sent home with you last night

1414
01:21:34,223 --> 01:21:35,600
to discuss with
your parents and

1415
01:21:35,724 --> 01:21:37,146
grandparents.
And did you do that?

1416
01:21:37,309 --> 01:21:38,310
Yes!

1417
01:21:38,477 --> 01:21:41,572
Very good! Now, we're gonna get
to Tyler's question in a minute.

1418
01:21:42,981 --> 01:21:44,779
So the speech,

1419
01:21:44,942 --> 01:21:48,913
"Let us tenderly and kindly
cherish, therefore...

1420
01:21:49,071 --> 01:21:51,290
"...the means of" what?

1421
01:21:51,448 --> 01:21:53,450
Knowledge!

1422
01:21:53,617 --> 01:21:55,494
Knowledge!
Which is why I sent it

1423
01:21:55,619 --> 01:21:57,496
home with you in
the first place.

1424
01:21:57,663 --> 01:21:58,835
The means of knowledge.

1425
01:21:58,997 --> 01:22:00,670
So you ready for
the second part?

1426
01:22:00,833 --> 01:22:02,005
Yes!

1427
01:22:02,167 --> 01:22:03,840
- "Let us dare to"?
- Read!

1428
01:22:04,002 --> 01:22:05,504
- "Let us dare to"?
- Think!

1429
01:22:05,671 --> 01:22:07,173
- "Let us dare to"?
- Speak!

1430
01:22:07,339 --> 01:22:08,841
- "Let us dare to"?
- Write!

1431
01:22:09,007 --> 01:22:11,601
"Let us dare to read, think,
speak and write."

1432
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:12,852
And, Tyler, who wrote that?

1433
01:22:12,928 --> 01:22:13,929
John Adams.

1434
01:22:14,012 --> 01:22:17,516
John Adams, our country's
second president.

1435
01:22:18,016 --> 01:22:21,111
Tyler's question,
his question was,

1436
01:22:21,270 --> 01:22:23,068
"Is that the same
Adams that the school

1437
01:22:23,188 --> 01:22:25,031
is named after?"
And I told you...

1438
01:22:25,107 --> 01:22:26,108
Yes.

1439
01:22:26,191 --> 01:22:28,239
Yes. And the reason
why that is a perfect

1440
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:30,454
question is that
you dared to think.

1441
01:22:30,779 --> 01:22:34,704
"Dare to read, think, speak
and write." Who wrote that?

1442
01:22:34,867 --> 01:22:36,540
John Adams!

1443
01:22:36,702 --> 01:22:38,750
Our school's name is...

1444
01:22:38,912 --> 01:22:41,165
Adams!

1445
01:22:41,540 --> 01:22:42,883
All right!

1446
01:22:43,083 --> 01:22:44,460
Beautiful.

1447
01:22:46,837 --> 01:22:48,384
You did well.

1448
01:22:52,426 --> 01:22:53,928
Bye.

1449
01:22:55,179 --> 01:22:56,431
See you tomorrow.

1450
01:22:56,597 --> 01:22:57,723
Bye.

1451
01:22:59,475 --> 01:23:01,227
I didn't know
you were watching.

1452
01:23:01,393 --> 01:23:03,896
Lets me see what kind of
teacher you really are.

1453
01:23:04,062 --> 01:23:06,190
Also, I hate
social pleasantries.

1454
01:23:06,356 --> 01:23:07,824
Then I'll just
keep it at thank you.

1455
01:23:07,941 --> 01:23:09,443
Don't thank me.

1456
01:23:09,985 --> 01:23:12,704
Ever had a Blue Mojito,
Mrs. Alberts?

1457
01:23:12,863 --> 01:23:14,035
I don't drink.

1458
01:23:14,198 --> 01:23:18,044
Well, now, see, that's something
else you could work on.

1459
01:23:18,535 --> 01:23:20,629
I mention the Blue Mojito

1460
01:23:20,787 --> 01:23:24,667
because the only thing
standing between it and me

1461
01:23:24,833 --> 01:23:26,050
is you.

1462
01:23:26,251 --> 01:23:28,549
And right now there's
a lovely place in

1463
01:23:28,670 --> 01:23:31,014
Coconut Grove
with a chilled glass

1464
01:23:31,173 --> 01:23:34,097
waiting for me to fill
out my retirement papers

1465
01:23:34,259 --> 01:23:37,513
pack up my condo and get a
one-way ticket to Miami-Dade.

1466
01:23:37,763 --> 01:23:39,185
Well, I understand...

1467
01:23:39,348 --> 01:23:40,474
No, you don't.

1468
01:23:40,641 --> 01:23:42,484
Look, I'm running late.
Walk with me.

1469
01:23:43,602 --> 01:23:46,481
I didn't drink
before I got to this job.

1470
01:23:46,647 --> 01:23:48,445
I was a go-getter
like you.

1471
01:23:48,607 --> 01:23:51,281
And next thing I knew,
I'm this.

1472
01:23:51,443 --> 01:23:53,116
The Queen Bureaucrat.

1473
01:23:53,278 --> 01:23:55,906
Now, that's not something
I want on my headstone,

1474
01:23:56,073 --> 01:23:57,871
"She filled space,
RIP."

1475
01:23:58,033 --> 01:24:00,001
So you're saying don't bother?

1476
01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:02,413
I'm saying I want to help.

1477
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:05,583
Hearing in 10 days.
You want it?

1478
01:24:05,749 --> 01:24:07,046
Yes, absolutely.

1479
01:24:07,209 --> 01:24:08,506
Great.

1480
01:24:09,002 --> 01:24:11,175
Now, listen to me carefully.

1481
01:24:11,338 --> 01:24:14,433
This board finds
reasons to say no.

1482
01:24:15,717 --> 01:24:19,893
Last year we killed a proposal
for not having a proper index.

1483
01:24:20,055 --> 01:24:23,855
So, I's dotted, T's crossed.

1484
01:24:24,351 --> 01:24:26,445
And good luck and so forth.

1485
01:24:43,537 --> 01:24:45,039
You need help?

1486
01:24:46,915 --> 01:24:48,417
No, I got it.

1487
01:24:51,587 --> 01:24:52,930
You sure?

1488
01:24:55,090 --> 01:24:58,185
You got the 446 Provisions and
the Writers' Mentors Program?

1489
01:24:58,343 --> 01:25:00,061
Yup, I got 'em both.

1490
01:25:00,929 --> 01:25:02,977
I's dotted, T's crossed.

1491
01:25:03,974 --> 01:25:06,523
I heard you
the first six times.

1492
01:25:12,190 --> 01:25:13,988
Hi.
Hey.

1493
01:25:14,318 --> 01:25:15,615
How is she?

1494
01:25:15,777 --> 01:25:17,029
Aces.

1495
01:25:26,788 --> 01:25:28,131
Starving.

1496
01:25:29,249 --> 01:25:31,377
Look at this.
Did you see these?

1497
01:25:32,711 --> 01:25:34,872
They're goin' up around the
streets, all around school.

1498
01:25:35,339 --> 01:25:36,682
It's got my name on it.

1499
01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:39,343
Big deal.
Sticks and stones.

1500
01:25:40,218 --> 01:25:43,222
It kind of is a big deal,
because I'm not anti-labor.

1501
01:25:44,014 --> 01:25:45,934
I think you don't really
know what you're asking.

1502
01:25:48,060 --> 01:25:50,154
I don't know what I'm asking?

1503
01:25:51,521 --> 01:25:55,151
I've spent most of my life without
job security. It's awful.

1504
01:25:55,317 --> 01:25:56,569
There's other ways
to fix this problem.

1505
01:25:56,693 --> 01:25:57,945
Yeah? Like what?

1506
01:25:58,111 --> 01:26:00,864
Like figure it out
with TAP, for instance,

1507
01:26:00,947 --> 01:26:02,369
because it's not
all on the union.

1508
01:26:02,449 --> 01:26:04,417
There's other
things at work, okay?

1509
01:26:04,534 --> 01:26:06,002
There's community,
there's poverty...

1510
01:26:06,078 --> 01:26:11,710
I can't wait to figure it
out with 10,000 studies

1511
01:26:11,792 --> 01:26:13,920
about how being
poor affects education!

1512
01:26:14,002 --> 01:26:16,972
I can tell you being poor
sucks and my kid can't read!

1513
01:26:17,130 --> 01:26:18,803
I'm not gonna be
a part of this.

1514
01:26:20,842 --> 01:26:22,344
So you're gonna do nothing.

1515
01:26:22,511 --> 01:26:26,391
I don't do nothing. I teach.
That's not doing nothing!

1516
01:26:26,556 --> 01:26:28,183
That's great for your 30 kids!

1517
01:26:28,266 --> 01:26:30,439
How 'bout the rest of the kids?
How 'bout Malia?

1518
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:35,070
This whole system
is broken. It's dead.

1519
01:26:35,232 --> 01:26:39,453
I need you to take a stand on this.
I need you in this fight.

1520
01:26:39,611 --> 01:26:42,239
If there's a problem,
I'm getting rid of it.

1521
01:26:44,199 --> 01:26:46,998
That doesn't just go for
the school, by the way.

1522
01:26:52,499 --> 01:26:53,625
Really?

1523
01:26:59,339 --> 01:27:00,636
Okay.

1524
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:21,361
Hi.

1525
01:27:22,362 --> 01:27:23,659
See you next weekend.

1526
01:27:23,822 --> 01:27:25,119
I got a surprise for
you in the dining room.

1527
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:26,492
Cool.

1528
01:27:27,451 --> 01:27:28,452
Hey.

1529
01:27:30,495 --> 01:27:32,088
Ask him about his shirt.

1530
01:27:32,748 --> 01:27:34,216
What about it?

1531
01:27:34,332 --> 01:27:35,834
He wouldn't tell me.
Just ask him.

1532
01:27:41,506 --> 01:27:43,258
This is awesome.

1533
01:27:44,342 --> 01:27:45,559
What's that?

1534
01:27:46,428 --> 01:27:47,850
Nosebleed.

1535
01:27:48,054 --> 01:27:49,556
That's not true.

1536
01:27:49,723 --> 01:27:51,270
Why are they on you?

1537
01:27:51,433 --> 01:27:52,776
Because I'm slow.

1538
01:27:54,686 --> 01:27:56,529
You know you're not slow.

1539
01:27:57,856 --> 01:28:00,700
I know you don't want
me to think I'm slow.

1540
01:29:54,764 --> 01:29:56,232
This is the
eleventh hour, Evelyn.

1541
01:29:56,349 --> 01:30:00,229
Don't quit me here. Don't
underestimate this, okay?

1542
01:30:00,353 --> 01:30:02,105
It's a feeding frenzy.

1543
01:30:02,272 --> 01:30:04,741
District offices
all over the state

1544
01:30:04,816 --> 01:30:06,318
are getting slammed with calls.

1545
01:30:06,401 --> 01:30:08,403
"Oh, let's do what
they're doing at Adams."

1546
01:30:08,486 --> 01:30:09,703
We're still fine
with the school board.

1547
01:30:09,779 --> 01:30:12,498
Right now we've got it at 5-2
against, if King sticks.

1548
01:30:12,657 --> 01:30:16,127
No, that's too close.
Go back to the teachers.

1549
01:30:16,286 --> 01:30:19,631
Seriously, this would be like
handing over planes to passengers.

1550
01:30:19,706 --> 01:30:21,003
I'm not gonna let that happen.

1551
01:30:21,166 --> 01:30:24,466
But don't we have some
responsibility to the kids as well?

1552
01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:27,173
That's what they asked
Albert Shanker. Okay?

1553
01:30:27,339 --> 01:30:30,809
He was the FDR of
teachers union presidents.

1554
01:30:30,884 --> 01:30:32,181
You know what he said?

1555
01:30:32,260 --> 01:30:33,261
I'm sure you'll tell me.

1556
01:30:33,345 --> 01:30:35,518
He said, "When schoolchildren
start paying union dues,

1557
01:30:35,639 --> 01:30:38,483
I will start representing the
interests of schoolchildren."

1558
01:30:39,684 --> 01:30:40,856
What?

1559
01:30:43,438 --> 01:30:45,111
I lost it on Jamie Fitzpatrick.

1560
01:30:45,273 --> 01:30:48,152
For a second I saw
how she saw me, and I...

1561
01:30:49,194 --> 01:30:52,698
Do you ever wonder
if we all stepped back...

1562
01:30:53,657 --> 01:30:57,457
No. No doubts.
No pussy-footing.

1563
01:30:57,619 --> 01:31:01,169
Are you not aware of what is
going on in this country?

1564
01:31:02,874 --> 01:31:05,878
People, you should
hear this. Okay?

1565
01:31:06,962 --> 01:31:09,841
We're under attack. Labor.

1566
01:31:10,006 --> 01:31:12,725
Unions are getting pulverized.

1567
01:31:12,884 --> 01:31:16,388
And how is it that unions,
of all things

1568
01:31:16,554 --> 01:31:20,400
are getting blamed for the
economic cesspool that we're in?

1569
01:31:20,558 --> 01:31:23,653
Not greedy management, unions.

1570
01:31:24,729 --> 01:31:28,029
Same unions that
Clarence Darrow once said

1571
01:31:28,191 --> 01:31:31,536
have done more for humanity than
any other organization of men

1572
01:31:31,611 --> 01:31:33,238
that ever existed.

1573
01:31:33,488 --> 01:31:35,081
All we want

1574
01:31:35,240 --> 01:31:40,542
is for teachers to be well
paid and secure in their jobs.

1575
01:31:42,914 --> 01:31:45,417
Who could argue
with this philosophy?

1576
01:31:46,334 --> 01:31:48,177
It's for teachers.

1577
01:31:48,336 --> 01:31:49,713
Remember that.

1578
01:31:51,381 --> 01:31:54,555
Under attack,
we attack, Evelyn.

1579
01:31:56,261 --> 01:31:58,855
Did you fix those
attendance records?

1580
01:31:59,514 --> 01:32:01,016
You know I did.

1581
01:32:02,267 --> 01:32:03,564
How would I know that?

1582
01:32:03,727 --> 01:32:05,070
Because you told me to.

1583
01:32:05,228 --> 01:32:07,856
I would never tell a teacher
to fix attendance records.

1584
01:32:07,939 --> 01:32:09,907
It's illegal,
not to mention unethical.

1585
01:32:09,983 --> 01:32:11,360
Is this because of our hearing?

1586
01:32:11,443 --> 01:32:15,869
Unfortunately, the rules on this
kind of infraction are clear.

1587
01:32:16,031 --> 01:32:18,955
Immediate academic suspension.

1588
01:32:23,079 --> 01:32:25,582
Robert, don't do this.

1589
01:32:25,665 --> 01:32:27,793
It's already done.
It's for the kids' sake.

1590
01:32:27,959 --> 01:32:30,303
The same kids you
cared enough about

1591
01:32:30,462 --> 01:32:32,806
to mark present
when they were absent?

1592
01:32:38,553 --> 01:32:40,055
I need to talk to them.

1593
01:32:40,221 --> 01:32:43,646
Academic suspension means
you cannot be on campus.

1594
01:32:43,808 --> 01:32:46,152
Now, if you're on campus,
you will be arrested.

1595
01:32:46,311 --> 01:32:47,938
I just wanna say goodbye.

1596
01:32:48,104 --> 01:32:50,778
I was worried you
might get feisty.

1597
01:32:51,608 --> 01:32:53,360
If I've made it a little harder

1598
01:32:53,485 --> 01:32:55,328
for you to take
my job, I'm glad.

1599
01:32:59,991 --> 01:33:01,743
That's feisty!

1600
01:33:07,165 --> 01:33:08,417
Sorry.

1601
01:33:11,419 --> 01:33:12,762
What happened?
Where is she?

1602
01:33:12,921 --> 01:33:14,173
I got a call.

1603
01:33:14,339 --> 01:33:15,739
'Scuse me,
this class is in session.

1604
01:33:15,799 --> 01:33:16,971
Where is she?

1605
01:33:17,133 --> 01:33:18,305
Excuse me.

1606
01:33:18,468 --> 01:33:20,345
Landri, what happened?

1607
01:33:20,512 --> 01:33:22,185
She had an accident.

1608
01:33:23,139 --> 01:33:25,016
Nobody's looking for her?

1609
01:33:25,767 --> 01:33:26,768
Malia!

1610
01:33:27,852 --> 01:33:29,320
Malia!

1611
01:33:33,983 --> 01:33:35,326
Malia?

1612
01:33:36,277 --> 01:33:38,120
Oh, bug.

1613
01:33:38,530 --> 01:33:40,050
She wouldn't give
me the bathroom pass.

1614
01:33:40,115 --> 01:33:41,537
Oh, no, sweetie.

1615
01:33:42,117 --> 01:33:43,619
I simply told
her that big girls

1616
01:33:43,743 --> 01:33:45,290
wait until
the appropriate time.

1617
01:33:45,453 --> 01:33:48,047
You punished her because she
had to go to the bathroom?

1618
01:33:48,206 --> 01:33:51,335
I punished her because, like
her mother, she cannot follow rules.

1619
01:33:51,501 --> 01:33:53,048
Girls her age need
an example of how...

1620
01:33:53,211 --> 01:33:54,804
Rules about...
Are you insane?

1621
01:33:54,963 --> 01:33:56,715
Let me go!

1622
01:33:59,134 --> 01:34:00,431
This is all your fault.

1623
01:34:00,510 --> 01:34:02,512
It's all my fault, is it?
You make everything bad.

1624
01:34:02,637 --> 01:34:04,435
I make everything bad.
Sticking me here,

1625
01:34:04,514 --> 01:34:06,107
where I'm never
gonna learn anything.

1626
01:34:06,182 --> 01:34:08,480
Don't talk to me like that!
So I can end up like you?

1627
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:10,562
Like what?
Poor and dumb!

1628
01:34:14,232 --> 01:34:16,576
Did you hear me?
You're stupid!

1629
01:34:48,516 --> 01:34:51,019
Go take your jeans off.
There you go.

1630
01:35:06,701 --> 01:35:08,374
<i>The thing is,
you can't go back.</i>

1631
01:35:09,037 --> 01:35:11,460
For those of you who
have given up on us,

1632
01:35:14,292 --> 01:35:15,965
you've given up on us.

1633
01:35:16,586 --> 01:35:19,089
You won't have the
union to protect you.

1634
01:35:19,881 --> 01:35:22,760
Now, I don't know if it's
been made clear to you,

1635
01:35:22,926 --> 01:35:26,976
but supporting this new school
does not necessarily mean

1636
01:35:27,138 --> 01:35:29,937
you'll be signing
a contract to teach there.

1637
01:35:30,099 --> 01:35:33,228
Even if you are hired,
there are no guarantees.

1638
01:35:33,394 --> 01:35:35,522
That's what's been happening
all over the country

1639
01:35:35,605 --> 01:35:37,232
with these kinds of schools.

1640
01:35:37,315 --> 01:35:40,569
Six months later they're failing,
and people are out of a job.

1641
01:35:40,735 --> 01:35:43,614
So, what really worries me
is human nature.

1642
01:35:43,780 --> 01:35:45,748
It's human nature to be afraid.

1643
01:35:45,907 --> 01:35:48,911
And we've got administrators at
other schools who are afraid.

1644
01:35:49,077 --> 01:35:52,832
They're afraid of the same thing
happening at their schools.

1645
01:35:53,665 --> 01:35:55,793
And they're telling us

1646
01:35:55,917 --> 01:35:58,090
they don't want to hire the
teachers who got all this started.

1647
01:35:58,253 --> 01:35:59,675
'Scuse me.
'Scuse me, please.

1648
01:35:59,754 --> 01:36:01,176
Yes, Breena.
'Scuse me.

1649
01:36:01,422 --> 01:36:04,266
So basically what
you're telling us

1650
01:36:04,425 --> 01:36:07,679
is if we go along
with this "takeover"

1651
01:36:07,845 --> 01:36:09,438
TAP will blacklist us.

1652
01:36:09,597 --> 01:36:11,019
No, that's not what I'm saying.

1653
01:36:11,182 --> 01:36:14,686
I'm saying we can't guarantee
how other schools might react.

1654
01:36:16,271 --> 01:36:19,525
Is this confusing? I mean,
does this make sense?

1655
01:36:19,691 --> 01:36:22,615
No, no, it does not.
It doesn't make sense.

1656
01:36:22,777 --> 01:36:26,532
Sorry about that, Michael. How
can I elucidate this for you?

1657
01:36:28,449 --> 01:36:30,326
I'm a member of this union.
Great.

1658
01:36:30,493 --> 01:36:32,211
And I'm also a human.

1659
01:36:33,329 --> 01:36:36,799
And I'm sorry, I just don't agree
with your view of human nature

1660
01:36:36,958 --> 01:36:40,462
about your assessment
of our humanity.

1661
01:36:40,545 --> 01:36:43,765
I'm not afraid, and the teachers
that I know, we're not fearful.

1662
01:36:43,840 --> 01:36:46,810
In fact, the teachers that
I know are bold at heart

1663
01:36:46,884 --> 01:36:50,058
and they want change because it's
what's best for our students.

1664
01:36:50,221 --> 01:36:52,644
And what we've been
lacking is leadership.

1665
01:36:54,225 --> 01:36:56,023
Well, guess what?

1666
01:36:57,312 --> 01:36:58,689
We found some.

1667
01:37:03,067 --> 01:37:05,866
Holland saw me come in,
so I just have a minute.

1668
01:37:06,070 --> 01:37:07,413
Here's the thing.

1669
01:37:08,239 --> 01:37:09,661
We're all scared of something.

1670
01:37:09,824 --> 01:37:12,828
I'm scared of things staying the
same, you're scared of things not.

1671
01:37:12,994 --> 01:37:15,998
This is what we're giving the board.
This is your school.

1672
01:37:16,164 --> 01:37:17,586
Standardized
test study programs

1673
01:37:17,749 --> 01:37:19,171
integrating
competitive hip-hop,

1674
01:37:19,250 --> 01:37:20,547
that's Breena's idea.

1675
01:37:20,710 --> 01:37:23,839
Community outreach programs and service
field trips, that's Michael's.

1676
01:37:23,921 --> 01:37:24,922
Thattagirl.

1677
01:37:25,006 --> 01:37:29,386
Fifth graders reading and acting
Shakespeare, that's Ben's.

1678
01:37:29,552 --> 01:37:31,930
Nona, none of this means
anything if we can't teach.

1679
01:37:32,096 --> 01:37:33,848
You will teach.
You'll teach here.

1680
01:37:34,015 --> 01:37:35,813
Look what they did to you.

1681
01:37:35,933 --> 01:37:37,776
Yeah. They did.

1682
01:37:38,603 --> 01:37:41,197
And it's true
that having your kids

1683
01:37:41,314 --> 01:37:43,942
taken from you
just about kills you.

1684
01:37:44,692 --> 01:37:48,788
But it's worse for the kids.

1685
01:37:49,447 --> 01:37:53,452
And it's them, the kids, that
I'm tryin' to think about.

1686
01:37:53,618 --> 01:37:55,120
Just them now.

1687
01:37:55,286 --> 01:37:56,913
You get what I'm saying?

1688
01:37:57,080 --> 01:37:58,957
Security is on its way.

1689
01:37:59,123 --> 01:38:01,125
Yeah? You gonna arrest me?

1690
01:38:01,292 --> 01:38:02,544
You betcha.

1691
01:38:04,712 --> 01:38:07,056
That's one good thing
about bein' out of a job.

1692
01:38:07,215 --> 01:38:08,637
You don't have to
worry about getting fired

1693
01:38:08,716 --> 01:38:11,139
when you tell your boss
to go screw himself.

1694
01:38:11,302 --> 01:38:12,474
Read the future.

1695
01:38:14,138 --> 01:38:16,982
All right,
just so everybody's clear...

1696
01:38:17,141 --> 01:38:18,643
'Scuse me.

1697
01:38:20,645 --> 01:38:22,318
This room is for teachers.

1698
01:38:30,822 --> 01:38:32,449
Seventeen

1699
01:38:32,698 --> 01:38:33,824
plus one

1700
01:38:34,492 --> 01:38:35,709
is eighteen.

1701
01:38:35,868 --> 01:38:38,166
They're all still with us.

1702
01:38:45,628 --> 01:38:46,800
Let's celebrate.

1703
01:38:47,171 --> 01:38:49,173
Hearing in two days.

1704
01:38:53,678 --> 01:38:54,679
Hey.

1705
01:39:02,645 --> 01:39:04,363
I heard about what you did.

1706
01:39:11,237 --> 01:39:12,830
Are you apologizing?

1707
01:39:25,877 --> 01:39:26,878
Take a message.

1708
01:39:46,731 --> 01:39:49,234
He says the next time he
calls it'll be to fire you.

1709
01:39:53,362 --> 01:39:58,243
I remember when I was 6 and
the union first came around.

1710
01:39:58,409 --> 01:40:00,377
We'd go to the
meetings as a family.

1711
01:40:02,038 --> 01:40:05,212
When they were finally
voted in, my father cried.

1712
01:40:06,751 --> 01:40:09,095
The only other
time I saw him cry

1713
01:40:10,755 --> 01:40:13,053
was when I told him
I was coming here.

1714
01:40:14,592 --> 01:40:16,094
Oh, boy.

1715
01:40:24,769 --> 01:40:26,066
Don't send it.

1716
01:40:26,771 --> 01:40:28,273
Mr. Gould already did.

1717
01:40:34,320 --> 01:40:35,993
I told him you were coming.

1718
01:40:36,614 --> 01:40:38,366
You want me to go up with you?
No.

1719
01:40:38,533 --> 01:40:40,501
He said to wake him
up if he was asleep.

1720
01:40:44,372 --> 01:40:45,624
Cody.

1721
01:40:46,290 --> 01:40:47,291
Cody.

1722
01:40:47,500 --> 01:40:50,344
Cody, wake up, wake up.
Come on.

1723
01:40:50,503 --> 01:40:51,675
Wake up.

1724
01:40:53,339 --> 01:40:54,591
Wake up.
Listen to me.

1725
01:40:54,757 --> 01:40:56,259
I've got something to
tell you, 'cause you

1726
01:40:56,384 --> 01:40:57,886
can't hear it from
someone else, okay?

1727
01:40:59,971 --> 01:41:02,315
Something called colic.
Have you heard of colic?

1728
01:41:02,431 --> 01:41:03,432
No.

1729
01:41:03,558 --> 01:41:05,981
It's something that babies
get and nobody knows why.

1730
01:41:06,143 --> 01:41:09,147
But it makes you cry
for hours and hours.

1731
01:41:09,313 --> 01:41:14,069
And when you have a colicky baby,
you just have to deal with it.

1732
01:41:14,318 --> 01:41:16,491
And a lot of good mothers can.

1733
01:41:16,904 --> 01:41:18,281
But I had a hard time.

1734
01:41:19,865 --> 01:41:22,288
One night,
you were crying real hard

1735
01:41:22,451 --> 01:41:25,079
and I had a little wine.

1736
01:41:26,080 --> 01:41:27,707
More than a little.

1737
01:41:29,709 --> 01:41:33,339
And then it got worse, so I decided
to take you to the doctor.

1738
01:41:33,504 --> 01:41:35,757
And I should have called
someone, but I didn't.

1739
01:41:36,424 --> 01:41:39,519
Sol put you in the car and I
tried to drive you myself,

1740
01:41:39,677 --> 01:41:42,681
but I didn't make it
because I smashed up the car.

1741
01:41:43,431 --> 01:41:44,978
Really bad.

1742
01:41:45,349 --> 01:41:47,317
More people
found out about this

1743
01:41:47,435 --> 01:41:49,403
and they might
say something to you

1744
01:41:49,562 --> 01:41:51,610
and I want you to
know the words to say.

1745
01:41:51,772 --> 01:41:54,195
What are they gonna say?
Bad things.

1746
01:41:54,900 --> 01:41:56,277
I mean, bad.

1747
01:41:56,444 --> 01:41:59,539
Like, "Why should
she get a school when

1748
01:42:00,031 --> 01:42:02,125
she can't even take
care of her own kid"?

1749
01:42:02,199 --> 01:42:03,746
And what do I say?

1750
01:42:03,909 --> 01:42:07,539
You say your
mother made a mistake

1751
01:42:07,705 --> 01:42:10,049
and she wishes
she hadn't done it.

1752
01:42:10,708 --> 01:42:12,381
She wishes it
with all her heart.

1753
01:42:13,127 --> 01:42:15,095
Because she loves her son.

1754
01:42:16,130 --> 01:42:17,882
And that she's sorry.

1755
01:42:22,386 --> 01:42:24,229
But it was a mistake

1756
01:42:24,388 --> 01:42:25,389
and I'm okay.

1757
01:42:25,556 --> 01:42:28,059
But, no...
But that's the thing.

1758
01:42:28,726 --> 01:42:30,603
I forgot the strap.

1759
01:42:32,563 --> 01:42:34,565
That second strap.

1760
01:42:36,108 --> 01:42:38,452
I forgot to click it

1761
01:42:39,570 --> 01:42:41,572
and you were
thrown from your seat.

1762
01:42:54,919 --> 01:42:59,470
And they thought that maybe
it had got to your brain.

1763
01:43:02,009 --> 01:43:04,762
And that's the thing that's been
taking hold of me all these years.

1764
01:43:04,929 --> 01:43:08,354
That maybe it had.

1765
01:43:11,769 --> 01:43:13,112
And I'm sorry.

1766
01:43:18,275 --> 01:43:19,993
But it didn't.

1767
01:43:21,445 --> 01:43:23,618
No, it didn't.

1768
01:43:30,329 --> 01:43:33,173
If you wanna lie
down next to me,

1769
01:43:33,874 --> 01:43:35,626
that'll be okay.

1770
01:44:25,676 --> 01:44:28,350
God bless her
for cleaning herself up.

1771
01:44:28,471 --> 01:44:32,271
But is it wrong to ask
if this is the best person

1772
01:44:32,516 --> 01:44:34,860
to be making
decisions for our kids.

1773
01:44:35,019 --> 01:44:37,272
It's completely fair
to question whether

1774
01:44:37,396 --> 01:44:39,694
parents want her
leading this school.

1775
01:44:39,857 --> 01:44:42,531
Yeah?
Look at us all here.

1776
01:44:42,860 --> 01:44:47,081
Asked and answered, cupcake.
Asked and answered.

1777
01:44:48,032 --> 01:44:50,251
Now look what
you gone and done.

1778
01:44:54,747 --> 01:44:55,919
Good luck.

1779
01:45:00,419 --> 01:45:01,887
Come on, you guys.

1780
01:45:05,716 --> 01:45:07,935
Education is our right!
Fight! Fight! Fight!

1781
01:45:08,093 --> 01:45:10,937
It's about the curriculum
and things are going to change!

1782
01:45:11,096 --> 01:45:13,269
They're here! They're here!

1783
01:45:51,679 --> 01:45:54,353
And so it begins.
The hearing on proposed

1784
01:45:54,431 --> 01:45:57,025
changes to John
Adams Elementary.

1785
01:46:02,940 --> 01:46:05,819
Okay, that's not happening.

1786
01:46:07,695 --> 01:46:11,416
Now, after three hours
of executive session

1787
01:46:11,490 --> 01:46:14,960
and a review of statements
submitted from all sides,

1788
01:46:15,119 --> 01:46:16,746
the board has determined

1789
01:46:16,829 --> 01:46:22,177
that the petition submitted by
Ms. Alberts and Ms. Fitzpatrick

1790
01:46:26,463 --> 01:46:27,635
will be denied.

1791
01:46:34,680 --> 01:46:36,523
Quiet. Quiet.

1792
01:46:37,141 --> 01:46:39,394
Tell us why we
didn't get a vote.

1793
01:46:39,560 --> 01:46:41,562
It's not board policy to
divulge that information.

1794
01:46:41,729 --> 01:46:45,074
For once, believe it or not, the
board will make an exception.

1795
01:46:45,691 --> 01:46:47,659
People should know
this has nothing to do

1796
01:46:47,735 --> 01:46:50,534
with the recent character
attacks on Ms. Alberts.

1797
01:46:58,454 --> 01:47:00,832
Mr. Brandt, you made
the motion to dismiss,

1798
01:47:00,998 --> 01:47:04,252
so step up and
enlighten us as to why.

1799
01:47:04,877 --> 01:47:06,754
Points for brevity.

1800
01:47:06,962 --> 01:47:09,715
As I just said,
board policy stipulates...

1801
01:47:09,882 --> 01:47:11,099
Sir.

1802
01:47:12,635 --> 01:47:15,309
I'm chair of this board
for one more week,

1803
01:47:15,471 --> 01:47:19,692
which means today
I am board policy.

1804
01:47:20,184 --> 01:47:24,155
I call your attention to
the proposal, line 322.

1805
01:47:24,939 --> 01:47:27,567
The remedial education section.

1806
01:47:28,067 --> 01:47:33,415
The budget amount on line
322 says $431,054.

1807
01:47:34,907 --> 01:47:37,205
Now there's some
backwards math.

1808
01:47:37,409 --> 01:47:41,004
A wild guess tells me
the intended number

1809
01:47:41,080 --> 01:47:44,835
was 134, not 431,000.

1810
01:47:45,459 --> 01:47:47,757
But please,
correct me if I'm wrong.

1811
01:47:51,507 --> 01:47:53,805
Mr. Brandt, you're right.

1812
01:47:54,093 --> 01:47:56,642
The numbers were wrong.

1813
01:47:57,471 --> 01:47:58,939
I must've reversed them.

1814
01:47:59,598 --> 01:48:02,317
So we should entrust the
teaching of basic math skills

1815
01:48:02,393 --> 01:48:04,566
to someone who can't
even do it herself?

1816
01:48:05,145 --> 01:48:07,739
Come on.
That's ridiculous.

1817
01:48:07,898 --> 01:48:11,243
The proposal needs to be
corrected and resubmitted.

1818
01:48:11,402 --> 01:48:13,120
But that's next year.

1819
01:48:13,278 --> 01:48:14,325
Let's move on.

1820
01:48:14,405 --> 01:48:15,406
But it's ridiculous.

1821
01:48:15,906 --> 01:48:17,533
Let's move on.

1822
01:48:19,159 --> 01:48:21,378
Can I say one thing?

1823
01:48:22,496 --> 01:48:24,590
Please, go ahead,
Ms. Fitzpatrick.

1824
01:48:25,708 --> 01:48:31,010
The numbers are flipped
because I flipped the numbers

1825
01:48:31,380 --> 01:48:36,261
one time in this whole proposal,
because I'm dyslexic.

1826
01:48:37,177 --> 01:48:38,520
I'm dyslexic.

1827
01:48:39,096 --> 01:48:40,439
I'm dyslexic.

1828
01:48:40,597 --> 01:48:43,771
I never even said that word
when I was my daughter's age

1829
01:48:43,934 --> 01:48:46,687
because the school I went
to made me feel dumb.

1830
01:48:46,854 --> 01:48:50,108
And they didn't do anything about
it, they just passed me through.

1831
01:48:55,279 --> 01:48:56,622
Malia.

1832
01:48:58,615 --> 01:49:00,617
I will not let
that happen to you.

1833
01:49:01,994 --> 01:49:05,294
I need you to go to a school
that knows what I know.

1834
01:49:05,372 --> 01:49:08,171
That you are so smart.

1835
01:49:08,250 --> 01:49:10,548
You're so smart.

1836
01:49:14,715 --> 01:49:20,063
Do any of you even remember
what we're doin' here?

1837
01:49:21,722 --> 01:49:25,477
Because we're
not here for this.

1838
01:49:25,642 --> 01:49:30,523
We're not here for unions
and teachers and parents.

1839
01:49:30,689 --> 01:49:33,408
We're here for our kids.

1840
01:49:33,692 --> 01:49:36,536
And me and all of these
teachers and parents,

1841
01:49:36,695 --> 01:49:40,541
we didn't go through all this
to get turned down for a typo.

1842
01:49:40,699 --> 01:49:43,919
Now I know

1843
01:49:44,286 --> 01:49:47,381
you're gonna find any reason you
can to turn this school down

1844
01:49:48,040 --> 01:49:50,793
and that it doesn't
really matter what we do.

1845
01:49:53,128 --> 01:49:54,926
But even so,

1846
01:49:57,716 --> 01:50:01,562
I'm not leavin' this room till
you give us some kind of a vote.

1847
01:50:05,516 --> 01:50:06,893
Let's see how this plays out.

1848
01:50:07,601 --> 01:50:08,602
Vote.

1849
01:50:09,603 --> 01:50:10,604
Vote.

1850
01:50:11,146 --> 01:50:12,443
Vote!

1851
01:50:29,164 --> 01:50:34,295
Okay, all things considered, I say
it's a good day for a voice vote.

1852
01:50:38,006 --> 01:50:39,007
Thank you.

1853
01:50:42,261 --> 01:50:46,311
Now, I'm gonna vote first
because I bought the gavel.

1854
01:50:46,723 --> 01:50:49,522
My vote is yes.

1855
01:50:55,649 --> 01:50:57,367
Mr. Brandt.

1856
01:51:00,237 --> 01:51:01,363
No.

1857
01:51:08,912 --> 01:51:10,914
Ms. Southwick.

1858
01:51:11,874 --> 01:51:14,548
I know you're all
well-intentioned people

1859
01:51:14,918 --> 01:51:17,467
and I applaud your commitment,

1860
01:51:17,629 --> 01:51:20,007
but I see no reason
you're best-equipped

1861
01:51:20,090 --> 01:51:22,639
to handle a job
of this magnitude.

1862
01:51:23,343 --> 01:51:25,937
I think we let the professionals
be professionals.

1863
01:51:26,305 --> 01:51:27,431
My vote is no.

1864
01:51:31,476 --> 01:51:33,353
Mr. Mannie.

1865
01:51:33,896 --> 01:51:37,696
If the parents and
teachers want it,

1866
01:51:39,651 --> 01:51:41,449
so do I. Yes.

1867
01:51:46,283 --> 01:51:47,284
Ms. Schwartz.

1868
01:51:47,701 --> 01:51:49,419
I'm all over this.

1869
01:51:49,494 --> 01:51:50,495
Yes.

1870
01:51:55,876 --> 01:51:57,844
Mr. Parrish.

1871
01:51:58,128 --> 01:52:00,347
At a time when half...

1872
01:52:00,505 --> 01:52:02,507
I mean,
half of all new teachers

1873
01:52:02,633 --> 01:52:04,635
quit in their first five years,

1874
01:52:05,302 --> 01:52:07,270
we need to be
creating more incentives

1875
01:52:07,429 --> 01:52:10,057
and more protection
for them, not less.

1876
01:52:13,143 --> 01:52:14,144
No.

1877
01:52:15,020 --> 01:52:16,897
Thank you, sir!

1878
01:52:17,064 --> 01:52:18,236
Thank you.

1879
01:52:19,816 --> 01:52:22,069
One more. One more.

1880
01:52:29,076 --> 01:52:30,453
And Mr. King.

1881
01:52:32,120 --> 01:52:34,498
You have the deciding vote.

1882
01:52:38,877 --> 01:52:40,925
Like this, remember?
For lady luck.

1883
01:52:41,088 --> 01:52:42,715
Yes. Yes.

1884
01:52:44,216 --> 01:52:47,015
You're my luck.
You're my luck.

1885
01:52:52,057 --> 01:52:54,776
This school is failing.

1886
01:52:56,144 --> 01:52:58,272
It's been failing for too long.

1887
01:53:00,524 --> 01:53:02,822
It's a broken school.

1888
01:53:07,239 --> 01:53:12,587
Thousands of kids getting
passed on who can't read.

1889
01:53:13,704 --> 01:53:16,173
Can't write, can't add.

1890
01:53:20,127 --> 01:53:24,553
I'd like to think the ideas
in here could fix Adams.

1891
01:53:26,216 --> 01:53:29,811
Frankly, I'm not sure they can.

1892
01:53:31,305 --> 01:53:32,557
Oh, no.

1893
01:53:38,937 --> 01:53:41,907
But we must start somewhere.

1894
01:53:41,982 --> 01:53:42,983
Yes.

1895
01:53:53,118 --> 01:53:57,498
The motion is carried
by a vote of four to three.

1896
01:53:57,664 --> 01:54:02,340
John Adams Elementary,
your future begins again.

1897
01:54:11,386 --> 01:54:12,683
You ready to start an appeal?

1898
01:54:13,013 --> 01:54:14,060
I'm quitting.

1899
01:54:14,890 --> 01:54:16,483
Whoa, whoa. To do what?

1900
01:54:17,768 --> 01:54:19,190
What else?

1901
01:54:20,103 --> 01:54:21,229
Teach.

1902
01:54:57,891 --> 01:55:00,565
<i>I do not shrink
from this responsibility</i>

1903
01:55:00,644 --> 01:55:03,318
<i>'Cause the energy,
faith and the devotion</i>

1904
01:55:03,397 --> 01:55:05,741
<i>That we keep bringing
to this endeavor</i>

1905
01:55:05,899 --> 01:55:08,448
<i>Will light our country
and all who serve it</i>

1906
01:55:08,610 --> 01:55:11,033
<i>And the glow from that fire</i>

1907
01:55:11,196 --> 01:55:14,666
<i>Will surely light the world</i>

1908
01:55:14,825 --> 01:55:17,123
<i>So ask not What your
country can do for you</i>

1909
01:55:17,285 --> 01:55:21,916
<i>Ask not What your
country can do for you</i>

1910
01:55:22,290 --> 01:55:24,759
<i>But what you can
do for your country</i>

1911
01:55:26,503 --> 01:55:27,629
Yeah!

1912
01:55:34,302 --> 01:55:35,770
Nice.

1913
01:55:39,516 --> 01:55:43,111
All right, now before assembly
ends, we have a few announcements.

1914
01:55:43,270 --> 01:55:46,820
The first is about next
week's service field trip.

1915
01:55:47,441 --> 01:55:48,784
Malia Fitzpatrick.

1916
01:55:55,198 --> 01:55:56,950
Go, Malia!

1917
01:56:13,049 --> 01:56:17,304
"For next week's
f-field trip,

1918
01:56:19,097 --> 01:56:20,098
we're going

1919
01:56:20,265 --> 01:56:25,487
to the Northside Food Pa...

1920
01:56:26,563 --> 01:56:27,906
Pantry.

1921
01:56:32,736 --> 01:56:36,411
Bring your permission slips

1922
01:56:36,740 --> 01:56:39,084
so you can come.

1923
01:56:40,994 --> 01:56:43,338
We hop you can."

1924
01:56:55,926 --> 01:56:57,178
Hope.

1925
01:57:26,873 --> 01:57:29,752
<i>Well, I won't back down</i>

1926
01:57:30,961 --> 01:57:33,805
<i>No, I won't back down</i>

1927
01:57:34,923 --> 01:57:39,099
<i>You could stand me up
at the gates of hell</i>

1928
01:57:39,177 --> 01:57:42,101
<i>But I won't back down</i>

1929
01:57:43,348 --> 01:57:46,227
<i>Hey, baby</i>

1930
01:57:47,936 --> 01:57:50,314
<i>There ain't no easy way out</i>

1931
01:57:51,481 --> 01:57:58,365
<i>Hey, I will stand my ground</i>

1932
01:57:59,322 --> 01:58:02,326
<i>And I won't back down</i>

1933
01:58:03,243 --> 01:58:06,167
<i>Well, I know what's right</i>

1934
01:58:07,455 --> 01:58:10,504
<i>I got just one life</i>

1935
01:58:11,543 --> 01:58:15,593
<i>In a world that keeps on
pushin' me around</i>

1936
01:58:15,672 --> 01:58:18,721
<i>But I'll stand my ground</i>

1937
01:58:19,676 --> 01:58:22,520
<i>And I won't back down</i>

1938
01:58:23,930 --> 01:58:26,854
<i>Hey, baby</i>

1939
01:58:28,518 --> 01:58:31,146
<i>There ain't no easy way out</i>

1940
01:58:32,105 --> 01:58:38,704
<i>Hey, I will stand my ground</i>

1941
01:58:39,946 --> 01:58:42,995
<i>And I won't back down</i>

1942
01:58:44,117 --> 01:58:47,212
<i>No, I won't back down</i>

1943
01:58:57,380 --> 01:59:01,977
<i>Live your life right
'cause in case you forgot</i>

1944
01:59:03,428 --> 01:59:06,807
<i>It's the only one that you got</i>

1945
01:59:06,890 --> 01:59:08,938
<i>Live your life right</i>

1946
01:59:11,603 --> 01:59:13,355
<i>Put up a fight</i>

1947
01:59:15,899 --> 01:59:20,780
<i>The world starts
in the city of steel</i>

1948
01:59:20,862 --> 01:59:24,742
<i>Let's stick around</i>

1949
01:59:25,450 --> 01:59:30,456
<i>'Cause there are colours
that we 're gonna reveal</i>

1950
01:59:30,538 --> 01:59:32,632
<i>Starting now</i>

1951
01:59:35,210 --> 01:59:36,803
<i>Live your life right</i>

1952
01:59:39,881 --> 01:59:41,633
<i>Put up a fight</i>

1953
01:59:44,594 --> 01:59:48,974
<i>Giving up is what
they want you to do</i>

1954
01:59:49,057 --> 01:59:52,061
<i>But things must change</i>

1955
01:59:54,020 --> 01:59:58,366
<i>Pay no mind
to discouragin' fools</i>

1956
01:59:58,441 --> 02:00:01,035
<i>We will not wait</i>

1957
02:00:04,447 --> 02:00:08,998
<i>I'll be all I was meant to be</i>

1958
02:00:09,077 --> 02:00:12,627
<i>And you can never stop me</i>

1959
02:00:13,998 --> 02:00:18,048
<i>We were promised liberty</i>

1960
02:00:18,128 --> 02:00:22,133
<i>And together we're an army</i>

1961
02:00:22,757 --> 02:00:26,307
<i>A community</i>

1962
02:00:31,683 --> 02:00:35,813
<i>Live your life right
'cause in case you forgot</i>

1963
02:00:37,522 --> 02:00:41,026
<i>It's the only one that you got</i>

1964
02:00:41,109 --> 02:00:43,077
<i>Live your life right</i>

1965
02:00:45,780 --> 02:00:47,908
<i>Put up a fight</i>