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[voices on walkie talkie]

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Hi.

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Hi.

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You must be Joseph.

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Yep.

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So what\'s going on, Joseph?

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Not too much.

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What do you mean, not too much?

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I wouldn\'t be here if
something\'s not going on.

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I would rather hear it from
you, your side of the thing.

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I just don\'t go
to school, I guess.

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Why?

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I never wake up.

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How late are we staying up?

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12.

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I\'ll wake up about 1:00.

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1:00 o\'clock?

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In the afternoon.

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Yeah.

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That\'s 13 hours.

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Are you using drugs?

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No.

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Is the father in the household?

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No step-dad?

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He\'s in prison now.

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And I don\'t want
to do high school.

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You don\'t want
to do high school?

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I have 150 credits
to make up and I

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don\'t feel like doing them.

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This is really
bothering you, isn\'t it?

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I have done everything
I can... even to the point

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where I took his door.

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There was, like, six
months where he didn\'t even

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have a bedroom door and I took
everything out of his room.

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Is it still that way?

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No.

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Why not?

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Because he started doing good.

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And he does good and then he...

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OK.

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Well, what do you
want out of life?

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What do you expect to
get without an education?

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My family\'s been
out here forever.

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There\'s really nothing
for kids to do.

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Like, it causes us to get
into a lot of bad things.

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I never really had a childhood.

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Like, other kids thought
the world was all happy.

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I\'ll tell them, like, no.

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The world\'s actually
a dark place.

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I don\'t want to stay here.

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I want to be something.

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I don\'t care what it
is, just something.

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[kids chattering]

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Good morning.

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How are you?

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Tired!

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Because you\'ve been
working so hard, right?

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Good morning!

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Morning.

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Good morning.

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Good morning, Miss Viland.

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Good morning.

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Hi.

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Good morning, Miss Viland.

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You have a smile on your face.

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I like that.

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Good morning.

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Good morning.

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I missed you yesterday, Scott.

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I\'m glad you\'re back.

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Who\'s been sucking
on your neck there?

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No one.

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An octopus.

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Ah, yeah.

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We need to talk about that.

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[kids chattering]

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All right.

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Let\'s go, let\'s go.

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Ladies, ladies,
ladies, let\'s go.

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Time for first period, please.

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Let\'s go, let\'s go,
let\'s go, let\'s go.

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You two, I\'m going to have you
go work in Miss Larson\'s room.

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Hi, this is Miss Ambrosius
calling from Black Rock High

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School.

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So what is your responsibility
as an 18-year-old?

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To get yourself up.

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And?

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Come to school.

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You missed Monday and now
today you\'re home again.

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So what\'s going on?

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If you\'re looking for a
place to hide, this isn\'t it.

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Because at a traditional
high school you can come in

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and you can sit in the
back of the room and slouch

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down and let the
other people answer

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the questions, and the bell
rings and you get up and leave,

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right?

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At our school the
teachers are going

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to watch over your
shoulders a lot.

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They\'re going to be,
what are you doing?

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Why are you doing that?

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Do you need help with that?

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At our school we
want you to demand...

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To demand that we help you.

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There is no shame
in asking for help.

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OK.

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All right, Joey.

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So I\'m Miss Viland.

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Let\'s start first
with how our school

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differs than a traditional
high school, OK?

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This is a self-paced program.

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That means you\'ve got to
have a burn and a desire

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to get your butt up every
day and get on with it.

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OK?

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All right.

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It\'s got to come from inside.

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At our school you\'re only
stuck here as long as it

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takes you to do your work.

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So the day you finish that
last assignment is the day

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you can stop coming to school.

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So you showing up
here shows to me

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that you\'ve realized you\'ve
got to get the diploma.

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Yeah.

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So how are we going
to do this, Joey?

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I don\'t really know, honestly.

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I\'ve never really
done school work.

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I know you haven\'t.

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I know.

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I know.

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[guitar music]

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I was never a bad kid.

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I mean, junior high, yeah.

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But I just had a lot
going on in my life.

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My mom was on drugs and
my stepdad was... well,

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he was on drugs, too.

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I wanted to be like him.

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I decided to break into houses
and steal stuff from everyone.

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That\'s how I chose to
survive at that time.

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Now I\'m on probation.

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(SINGING) But I won\'t
hesitate no more.

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No more, no more, no more.

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This cannot wait.

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I\'m yours.

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This town kind of swallows
people up and brings them down.

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I don\'t want to end up like
everyone in Twentynine Palms.

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OK, after school
in the parking lot.

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FEMALE TEACHER: Right now
we\'re talking about genetics.

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Do you see the three up there?

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Now, Joey, which of these
traits is the recessive gene

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most common?

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The dominant gene
is the most common.

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My gene\'s most common.

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FEMALE TEACHER: The
recessive is most common.

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Our genes.

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FEMALE TEACHER: Which means
that the dominant trait

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is the lowest.

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[phone dialing]

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Hey Anthony, it\'s
Miss Ambrosius.

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I\'m calling because we have
people looking for you here.

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I\'m looking for
you for attendance,

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your teachers are
looking for you...

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Here\'s the thing.

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My philosophy is I have
no punishments here.

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You will not get a punishment.

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We have no lunch
detentions, no after school

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detentions, no Saturday schools.

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Because that\'s not the way
it works in the real world.

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If I get in trouble
with my boss she

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doesn\'t say, oh, Miss Viland,
you have Saturday school.

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Oh no, no, no.

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She comes in, she closes the
door, and she says, look,

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woman, you better get your
act together and do it my way

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or I\'m going to fire you.

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And that\'s how I
handle discipline.

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He did quite well in English.

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3.4 credits in one credit
check is pretty good.

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But then when I
look here, he hasn\'t

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gotten any science done at all.

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OK.

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You keep saying that you are
adult enough and responsible

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enough.

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OK.

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You need to stop saying
it and start showing it.

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Yes?

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Yeah.

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OK.

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OK.

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You realized you\'re 8.7
credits above being a Freshman?

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Yeah.

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And next year is
your senior year.

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Yeah.

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If I make a credit every
day, starting next year,

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I\'ll graduate two months early.

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How about a credit every
day starting next week?

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Well, I\'ll be trying to do that.

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No.

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Not try.

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Try tells me that you\'re
not going to do it.

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You and I talk a lot about this.

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You\'re angry and used to
be when you were angry,

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you would hit somebody.

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That was the first step, right?

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Yeah.

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OK.

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And I said, OK, we\'re
going to make a little step

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and we\'re going to
hit walls now, right?

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And we didn\'t hit...
And we hit walls.

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And now, this morning
you got angry.

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Did you hit anything?

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No.

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You didn\'t hit anything.

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I just walked away.

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You just walked away.

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A little bit further at a time.

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Lee, you and I
have a deal, right?

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Yes.

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We\'re going to
help you, but you\'re

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going to have to help yourself.

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You\'re going to have
to be using your time.

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You need to be here every day.

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You need to get
everything done, right?

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So this looks like a good plan.

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10, 10.7, 15.7, 15.8.

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And then you need to get another
four credits in electives

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in any of these ones here,
either in careers or fitness.

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So is this doable?

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I think it is.

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I think it is, too.

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You now have a
huge responsibility

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because if you don\'t graduate,
your baby won\'t graduate.

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[kids chattering]

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You might be going
through some hard times,

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you might, I might,
any of us can,

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but that don\'t mean we should
just tear down because of it.

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I\'m not giving up.

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I\'m still trying to graduate.

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I\'m going to graduate.

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I\'m not going to
drop out of school.

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I\'m going to graduate.

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The mother\'s going to graduate.

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We\'re going to start
better off in life

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because we didn\'t
give up on our child.

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[tapping, chanting]

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MALE TEACHER: Have a
good day, you guys.

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See you all tomorrow.

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[kids chattering]

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Everyone has a
kid in them still.

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I don\'t want the little
kid in me to die.

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I feel, like, stuck in
between a man and a child,

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still trying to
build his to becoming

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a good man, a man who
my son could be like,

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oh, I\'m proud of daddy.

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He did it.

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I want to be like that.

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I\'m not just going to be
some dead beat who drops out

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and never go anywhere in life.

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I stay dedicated to my
girlfriend, my work,

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and my child, trying
to graduate school.

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That\'s what makes me
different as a teen father.

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I\'m not going around causing
trouble, trying to party.

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I don\'t do that either.

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I\'m always with him,
taking care of him.

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What was your
first reaction when

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you found out you was
pregnant and having a baby?

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I don\'t know.

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I was scared.

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I don\'t know.

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I didn\'t know what
to do or anything.

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My first reaction
was... eh, it was

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going to happen
sooner or later so,

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you know, let\'s
see where it goes.

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That was actually
my first reaction.

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I wasn\'t scared.

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I wasn\'t nervous.

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I was, like, I\'m going
to face it head on.

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I\'m not going to run from it.

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FEMALE TEACHER: OK.

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Earth science.

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Have you done any of these?

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I have one done.

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So... and I\'m working
on another one now.

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OK.

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So you\'ve got the one here.

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Have you done an essay yet?

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Nuh-uh.

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Why not?

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I haven\'t done any English
since I\'ve been here.

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OK.

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You know... Joey.

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You need almost 30
credits in English.

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That\'s three years.

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You need to be doing these
essays every credit check

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if you\'re serious
about graduating.

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That sucks.

00:14:30.903 --> 00:14:32.404
Joey.

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You have the ability.

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This is totally doable, OK?

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OK.

00:14:39.378 --> 00:14:40.212
Are you hearing me?

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Mm-hm.

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Not just listening, you\'re
hearing what I\'m saying?

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Yeah.

00:14:53.025 --> 00:14:55.628
I am sitting with
Joey McGee right now.

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He is confused.

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Is he still on probation
or off probation?

00:15:01.934 --> 00:15:02.334
OK.

00:15:02.434 --> 00:15:03.302
Thanks.

00:15:03.402 --> 00:15:04.402
Bye-bye.

00:15:06.839 --> 00:15:08.079
I believe you\'re off probation.

00:15:11.110 --> 00:15:14.480
Now, that doesn\'t mean you can
do whatever the hell you want.

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I haven\'t been doing anything.

00:15:15.881 --> 00:15:17.349
I\'m still staying
out of trouble.

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OK.

00:15:18.651 --> 00:15:20.619
Well, I don\'t want you
to stop coming to school.

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Because, you know,
I just don\'t want

00:15:23.289 --> 00:15:26.458
you to sell yourself short.

00:15:26.558 --> 00:15:29.361
Well, hopefully I can get
out of this stuff, but just...

00:15:29.461 --> 00:15:30.296
All right.

00:15:30.396 --> 00:15:31.630
Joey, most things
that you do here

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probably won\'t
apply to your life.

00:15:34.733 --> 00:15:37.503
It\'s all playing a game.

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And I know, because
you\'re gifted musically,

00:15:39.438 --> 00:15:42.741
you don\'t yet realize the
importance of the diploma,

00:15:42.841 --> 00:15:48.414
but I\'m telling you there are
more homeless talented people

00:15:48.514 --> 00:15:50.716
out there because
they didn\'t fit

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into the societal expectations.

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You know what I mean?

00:15:56.322 --> 00:15:59.491
[guitar music]

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Would you like to play?

00:16:08.467 --> 00:16:09.068
Huh?

00:16:09.168 --> 00:16:10.202
Would you like to play?

00:16:10.302 --> 00:16:11.462
I want to play with you, man.

00:16:11.537 --> 00:16:14.306
I need a rhythm so bad.

00:16:14.406 --> 00:16:15.040
I\'m not good.

00:16:15.140 --> 00:16:17.076
I\'m still practicing.

00:16:17.176 --> 00:16:19.278
No such thing as
\"I\'m not good.\"

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I used to be like that.

00:16:21.613 --> 00:16:23.215
I\'ve been playing for
seven years though.

00:16:23.315 --> 00:16:25.484
I\'ve got that kind of
bluesy sound to me though.

00:16:25.584 --> 00:16:28.087
There\'s a lot of pain in my
music, for whatever reason.

00:16:28.187 --> 00:16:30.389
I don\'t know why.

00:16:30.489 --> 00:16:31.824
What are you starting off with?

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What\'s the chord?

00:16:32.925 --> 00:16:34.326
Is it... what is it called?

00:16:41.266 --> 00:16:43.435
I have one friend,
but it\'s good that way.

00:16:43.535 --> 00:16:45.304
Because when I had a
lot of friends I did bad

00:16:45.404 --> 00:16:48.140
and I was doing bad things.

00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:51.477
I did a lot of drugs
and I had to take

00:16:51.577 --> 00:16:53.212
care of my baby
brother and stuff

00:16:53.312 --> 00:16:54.512
because my mom was never home.

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If I get my high school diploma
I can turn my life around

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for the better.

00:17:01.954 --> 00:17:04.022
I mean, I really do want
to get out of that trailer.

00:17:04.123 --> 00:17:06.525
And I don\'t want to
keep using food stamps.

00:17:06.625 --> 00:17:08.193
I don\'t like using
that as a crutch.

00:17:08.293 --> 00:17:10.562
I\'m just using it
\'cause no one can really

00:17:10.662 --> 00:17:14.199
afford food in my house.

00:17:14.299 --> 00:17:16.935
I remember sometime in the
fourth grade one of my teachers

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told me I would never
amount to anything.

00:17:18.771 --> 00:17:20.672
So I kind of just,
like, stuck with that,

00:17:20.773 --> 00:17:22.274
that I would never
amount to anything,

00:17:22.374 --> 00:17:25.444
so I thought everything I
did was just for no reason.

00:17:25.544 --> 00:17:28.580
I get really bad
stressing out to the point

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where, like, I do not talk
to anybody or anything,

00:17:33.419 --> 00:17:38.223
or I just, like, try
to block out everybody.

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Anger builds up in
me because my dad,

00:17:40.659 --> 00:17:42.961
like, he yelled at
me a lot of times.

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He wanted me to be a
better person than he is.

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He just brings me
down and I don\'t feel

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like living sometimes no more.

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Oh my god.

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I\'m 17 and pregnant.

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What am I going to... I\'m
not even out of high school.

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I don\'t want to be
trapped anywhere.

00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:02.247
I don\'t want to ever
be trapped in anything.

00:18:02.347 --> 00:18:04.450
I see a lot of people who
are trapped in this town.

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My mom is... I still
don\'t know her address.

00:18:06.385 --> 00:18:07.785
I still don\'t know
where she\'s at...

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Don\'t care about
what other people say.

00:18:09.588 --> 00:18:11.523
Everybody knows me
to be a happy guy.

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I\'m smiling all the
time, but I do feel sad.

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My mom, she didn\'t
finish high school.

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My mom... I don\'t
know where she is.

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I\'m a stubborn kid.

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That\'s... first and foremost,
that\'s basically why I\'m here.

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I didn\'t want to do my work.

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I just think there
and think, like...

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[interposing voices]

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[kids chattering]

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MISS VILAND: OK guys, time
for second period, please.

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My whole 7th,
8th, 9th grade year

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I really don\'t even
remember school those years.

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Like, they really didn\'t exist.

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When I was younger, my
mom just, like, left.

00:19:05.143 --> 00:19:06.263
I don\'t know where she went.

00:19:06.311 --> 00:19:09.748
I just started living
with my grandma.

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My dad... my real dad\'s just
been in and out of my life.

00:19:12.618 --> 00:19:14.353
He\'s never really
been there for me.

00:19:20.592 --> 00:19:22.427
And then, when I
was in grade school

00:19:22.528 --> 00:19:26.098
my grandma\'s
husband molested me.

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I was probably the most
depressed teenager.

00:19:28.800 --> 00:19:31.837
I just don\'t think teenagers are
supposed to be that depressed.

00:19:36.241 --> 00:19:38.911
We can\'t control the
events that happen to us,

00:19:39.011 --> 00:19:40.913
but we can choose not
to be reduced by them.

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I\'m just going to be strong.

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Not somebody that\'s going
to let what happened to them

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break them.

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MISS VILAND: You said there
was drama the other night.

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JENNIFER: Yeah.

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MISS VILAND: What happened?

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JENNIFER: It\'s like, I wouldn\'t
feel as responsible if he

00:20:00.532 --> 00:20:01.900
would just stop popping up.

00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:05.137
Like, not still doing stuff
to still hurt my grandma.

00:20:05.237 --> 00:20:07.706
Like, I feel like it\'s my
fault a lot of the time.

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MISS VILAND: OK.

00:20:08.974 --> 00:20:10.375
But Jennifer, we\'ve
talked about this before.

00:20:10.475 --> 00:20:12.744
Do you want your grandma with
somebody who, first of all,

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does things like that to you?

00:20:14.112 --> 00:20:17.049
But secondly, who
treats her that way?

00:20:17.149 --> 00:20:19.918
If I would have just dealt
with what he was doing to me

00:20:20.018 --> 00:20:23.121
and never told my
grandma he wouldn\'t...

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MISS VILAND: Honey.

00:20:24.323 --> 00:20:25.657
Like, I just feel like
it\'s my fault. Like,

00:20:25.757 --> 00:20:27.559
I could have just dealt
with it without having

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my grandma to deal with it.

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MISS VILAND: No.

00:20:32.230 --> 00:20:34.032
Honey.

00:20:34.132 --> 00:20:35.267
Let me ask you this.

00:20:35.367 --> 00:20:38.971
If I got one of the counselors...
But somebody... like,

00:20:39.071 --> 00:20:41.540
a sexual assault counselor.

00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:42.880
Because this is... it\'s common.

00:20:42.941 --> 00:20:46.111
It\'s common that the victims
feel that responsibility.

00:20:46.211 --> 00:20:48.146
And they shouldn\'t.

00:20:48.246 --> 00:20:51.617
It\'s not... you can\'t... it\'s
never the victim\'s fault.

00:20:51.717 --> 00:20:54.086
JENNIFER: But I
blame myself a lot.

00:20:54.186 --> 00:20:55.020
I know you do.

00:20:55.120 --> 00:20:56.221
And that\'s what
I worry about, is

00:20:56.321 --> 00:20:57.961
that you take everything
on your shoulders

00:20:58.056 --> 00:21:00.559
and then it becomes a
roadblock from you, from doing

00:21:00.659 --> 00:21:02.361
what you need to do for you.

00:21:02.461 --> 00:21:03.629
You know what I mean?

00:21:03.729 --> 00:21:05.797
You were the victim.

00:21:05.897 --> 00:21:07.432
You\'re the child.

00:21:07.532 --> 00:21:09.234
You are not the adult.

00:21:09.334 --> 00:21:12.037
I feel like it.

00:21:12.137 --> 00:21:15.741
It\'s just... I don\'t... I want to
be more focused on school and I

00:21:15.841 --> 00:21:17.776
feel like I\'m really,
really trying and I really,

00:21:17.876 --> 00:21:19.196
really want to
graduate this year.

00:21:19.277 --> 00:21:23.015
But I... I just... I couldn\'t
come to school yesterday.

00:21:23.115 --> 00:21:24.750
Because I don\'t like
people here seeing

00:21:24.850 --> 00:21:26.351
me break down because I\'m not...

00:21:26.451 --> 00:21:28.253
Honey, we all break down here.

00:21:28.353 --> 00:21:30.956
That\'s what\'s great about it,
is that you can break down here.

00:21:31.056 --> 00:21:32.224
I know.

00:21:32.324 --> 00:21:35.093
I can break down to you
here, but not everybody else.

00:21:35.193 --> 00:21:36.473
MISS VILAND: The kids all do it.

00:21:36.528 --> 00:21:38.430
I mean, you see it.

00:21:38.530 --> 00:21:41.767
Everyone who goes
here has something.

00:21:41.867 --> 00:21:44.336
That\'s why they go here.

00:21:44.436 --> 00:21:45.436
I know.

00:22:05.724 --> 00:22:07.859
MISS VILAND: We talked real
briefly at the last staff

00:22:07.959 --> 00:22:09.895
meeting about adopt-a-student
again and just kind

00:22:09.995 --> 00:22:11.296
of refreshing your memory.

00:22:11.396 --> 00:22:13.532
If you can please make sure to
touch base with your students,

00:22:13.632 --> 00:22:15.834
and if we can just do
a go-around as to who

00:22:15.934 --> 00:22:16.974
you\'re working with again.

00:22:17.002 --> 00:22:18.704
Did we find out what\'s
going on with Jesse?

00:22:18.804 --> 00:22:19.638
MISS VILAND: Yes.

00:22:19.738 --> 00:22:21.173
He and his mom
have been evicted,

00:22:21.273 --> 00:22:22.340
so they\'re couching it.

00:22:22.441 --> 00:22:23.641
FEMALE TEACHER: He\'s so smart.

00:22:23.709 --> 00:22:24.209
MISS VILAND: He is.

00:22:24.309 --> 00:22:25.577
He is.

00:22:25.677 --> 00:22:30.048
But that\'s why... the connection
of why we\'ve seen the anger.

00:22:30.148 --> 00:22:32.150
Because lately it\'s been...
If you even look at him

00:22:32.250 --> 00:22:34.152
cross-eyed he\'s been angry.

00:22:34.252 --> 00:22:37.255
But obviously, you
know, justly so.

00:22:37.355 --> 00:22:38.523
FEMALE TEACHER: Maurice.

00:22:38.623 --> 00:22:40.592
He said he wasn\'t here
yesterday because he had nowhere

00:22:40.692 --> 00:22:43.395
to stay Monday night and didn\'t
have clean clothes yesterday.

00:22:43.495 --> 00:22:44.029
MISS VILAND: Yeah.

00:22:44.129 --> 00:22:45.397
He was kicked out.

00:22:45.497 --> 00:22:46.765
In fact, Jeanie texted me this
morning... is Maurice there?

00:22:46.865 --> 00:22:47.532
I\'m worried.

00:22:47.632 --> 00:22:48.700
Because he was kicked out.

00:22:48.800 --> 00:22:50.902
But I asked him today, and
he said he got back in.

00:22:51.002 --> 00:22:52.003
MALE TEACHER:
Someone else told me

00:22:52.104 --> 00:22:53.438
that story about not
having clean clothes,

00:22:53.538 --> 00:22:54.239
and it wasn\'t him.

00:22:54.339 --> 00:22:55.474
OK.

00:22:55.574 --> 00:22:56.608
Please just tell him to
bring a whole bag of clothes

00:22:56.708 --> 00:22:57.948
in and we\'ll wash them for him.

00:22:58.009 --> 00:22:59.277
That\'s not a problem at all.

00:22:59.377 --> 00:23:00.946
FEMALE TEACHER: Well, and I
told Maurice I\'d... you know,

00:23:01.046 --> 00:23:01.580
we\'ll feed you.

00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:02.514
Just get here.

00:23:02.614 --> 00:23:03.849
I just inherited Victor.

00:23:03.949 --> 00:23:07.085
He talked with Vonda and has
got a lot of stuff going on.

00:23:07.185 --> 00:23:08.320
You got his story.

00:23:08.420 --> 00:23:11.156
He was in tears in my
office and very embarrassed

00:23:11.256 --> 00:23:13.024
about breaking down in tears.

00:23:13.125 --> 00:23:15.961
His biggest worry is that
this is all he has for life,

00:23:16.061 --> 00:23:17.696
because this is
where he started.

00:23:17.796 --> 00:23:20.499
And he doesn\'t want
to end up on welfare.

00:23:20.599 --> 00:23:25.237
He doesn\'t want to live the
life that his family lives.

00:23:25.337 --> 00:23:27.639
And he\'s afraid he\'s going
to get sucked into it.

00:23:27.739 --> 00:23:29.274
And he said it\'s hard
for him some days

00:23:29.374 --> 00:23:32.177
just to get out of bed
because he just can\'t face it.

00:24:52.924 --> 00:24:55.560
MISS VILAND: Good morning,
Miss Jan, time to get up.

00:24:55.660 --> 00:24:57.963
It\'s Miss Viland.

00:24:58.063 --> 00:24:59.197
Jan, it\'s time to get up.

00:24:59.297 --> 00:25:02.534
I\'m going to expect you
here at 7:30 this morning.

00:25:02.634 --> 00:25:03.501
See you in a bit.

00:25:03.602 --> 00:25:04.002
Love you.

00:25:04.102 --> 00:25:05.102
Bye.

00:25:05.170 --> 00:25:06.738
Good morning, sweetie,
it\'s Miss Viland.

00:25:06.838 --> 00:25:08.807
How are you this morning?

00:25:08.907 --> 00:25:09.374
Good.

00:25:09.474 --> 00:25:10.642
You sleep well?

00:25:10.742 --> 00:25:11.743
All right.

00:25:11.843 --> 00:25:13.443
It\'s time to get in
here and get to work.

00:25:16.548 --> 00:25:18.083
White milk anyone?

00:25:18.183 --> 00:25:20.118
Anyone getting rid
of anything today?

00:25:20.218 --> 00:25:23.021
White milk? do you
want white milk?

00:25:23.121 --> 00:25:24.122
Too many hungry people.

00:25:28.894 --> 00:25:30.929
FEMALE TEACHER: So
if you could tell me

00:25:31.029 --> 00:25:34.266
one thing about yourself,
what would it be?

00:25:34.366 --> 00:25:39.337
What is one thing that you feel
like I need to know about you?

00:25:39.437 --> 00:25:41.139
I have a three-month-old son.

00:25:41.239 --> 00:25:42.073
FEMALE TEACHER: Really?

00:25:42.173 --> 00:25:44.910
Aww.

00:25:45.010 --> 00:25:47.078
I can care less what
you think about me.

00:25:47.178 --> 00:25:48.079
[students laughing]

00:25:48.179 --> 00:25:49.581
FEMALE TEACHER:
That\'s good to know.

00:25:49.681 --> 00:25:53.518
Lucky for you, I don\'t think
anything about anybody.

00:25:53.618 --> 00:25:56.087
I\'m an emotional wreck.

00:25:56.187 --> 00:25:57.589
FEMALE TEACHER: Who says?

00:25:57.689 --> 00:25:58.790
Me.

00:25:58.890 --> 00:25:59.890
Everybody.

00:26:02.060 --> 00:26:02.761
FEMALE TEACHER: OK.

00:26:02.861 --> 00:26:03.861
So take this.

00:26:03.929 --> 00:26:06.932
This is a list of
different feelings.

00:26:07.032 --> 00:26:09.501
What are some feelings you have
felt in a dating relationship?

00:26:09.601 --> 00:26:10.602
Lee, write yours down.

00:26:10.702 --> 00:26:12.422
You\'re going to have
some good ones, I know.

00:26:14.639 --> 00:26:16.041
FEMALE STUDENT: I
don\'t know why I\'m

00:26:16.141 --> 00:26:18.043
circling every one of these.

00:26:18.143 --> 00:26:18.777
And it\'s horrible.

00:26:18.877 --> 00:26:20.178
MALE STUDENT: Intense.

00:26:20.278 --> 00:26:22.981
FEMALE TEACHER: Jennifer, what\'s
going on with your three boys?

00:26:23.081 --> 00:26:24.716
I\'m only talking to,
like, one right now.

00:26:24.816 --> 00:26:29.888
But all of his past
relationships are horrible.

00:26:29.988 --> 00:26:30.988
FEMALE TEACHER: Lee.

00:26:31.022 --> 00:26:33.358
LEE: I\'d say lonely
in a relationship.

00:26:33.458 --> 00:26:34.960
FEMALE TEACHER: Lonely.

00:26:35.060 --> 00:26:36.761
LEE: When a person
don\'t understand you

00:26:36.861 --> 00:26:38.663
and they don\'t even try
to talk to you at all,

00:26:38.763 --> 00:26:40.465
it makes you feel lonely.

00:26:40.565 --> 00:26:42.467
Like, why did we get
together if I knew

00:26:42.567 --> 00:26:43.868
it was going to be like that?

00:26:43.969 --> 00:26:45.036
FEMALE TEACHER: Yeah.

00:26:45.136 --> 00:26:46.371
That\'s how it makes you feel.

00:26:46.471 --> 00:26:47.238
FEMALE TEACHER: Yeah.

00:26:47.339 --> 00:26:48.406
Any others, you guys?

00:26:48.506 --> 00:26:50.208
Unworthy and victimized.

00:26:50.308 --> 00:26:52.377
FEMALE TEACHER: In
your relationships.

00:26:52.477 --> 00:26:53.078
OK.

00:26:53.178 --> 00:26:54.546
FEMALE STUDENT: Afraid.

00:26:54.646 --> 00:26:56.114
And why did you feel afraid?

00:26:56.214 --> 00:26:59.517
Because, like, I would always
have to take care of him,

00:26:59.617 --> 00:27:00.785
like, non-stop.

00:27:00.885 --> 00:27:04.956
I would have to make sure
he wouldn\'t have to, like,

00:27:05.056 --> 00:27:06.091
kill himself.

00:27:06.191 --> 00:27:09.728
Him doing too many drugs
or doing, like, too much

00:27:09.828 --> 00:27:11.129
drinking and everything.

00:27:11.229 --> 00:27:13.749
Because I would be out having to
stick my finger down his throat

00:27:13.798 --> 00:27:15.734
and clean up his puke and stuff.

00:27:15.834 --> 00:27:19.137
But I\'m happy for what I\'ve
been through, even though it\'s

00:27:19.237 --> 00:27:21.639
like really, really, really
bad stuff that I went through

00:27:21.740 --> 00:27:22.574
and everything.

00:27:22.674 --> 00:27:24.976
It\'s just I\'m a
better person now

00:27:25.076 --> 00:27:26.316
and I\'m stronger because of it.

00:27:26.411 --> 00:27:28.613
FEMALE STUDENT: And it\'s like,
I feel like because we\'ve

00:27:28.713 --> 00:27:29.873
gone through stuff so young...

00:27:29.914 --> 00:27:31.016
We mature faster.

00:27:31.116 --> 00:27:33.418
How I\'ve watched my
grandma be in this cycle.

00:27:33.518 --> 00:27:36.087
And now that we\'ve gone
through it so young we can just

00:27:36.187 --> 00:27:38.023
be like, OK, this
is what not to do

00:27:38.123 --> 00:27:39.924
instead of being stuck
in it our whole lives

00:27:40.025 --> 00:27:41.326
and dealing it with that.

00:27:41.426 --> 00:27:44.129
FEMALE TEACHER: That\'s the key,
is breaking that cycle, right?

00:27:44.229 --> 00:27:45.630
Like, how many more
kids do we have

00:27:45.730 --> 00:27:51.002
to endanger and mess up
before somebody is going

00:27:51.102 --> 00:27:54.639
to break the cycle, right?

00:27:54.739 --> 00:27:59.044
[pounding rhythmically]

00:28:32.777 --> 00:28:34.279
LEE: Have a good day at work.

00:28:34.379 --> 00:28:35.680
Love you, mom.

00:28:35.780 --> 00:28:37.649
LEE\'S MOTHER: Love you too.

00:28:37.749 --> 00:28:39.250
All right, say, bye grandma.

00:28:39.350 --> 00:28:39.984
Love you grandma.

00:28:40.085 --> 00:28:41.085
Have a good day at work.

00:28:46.758 --> 00:28:47.758
Look at Midnight.

00:28:47.792 --> 00:28:48.792
What you doing, Midnight?

00:28:56.334 --> 00:28:57.969
See, I got to do
three chapters of life

00:28:58.069 --> 00:29:00.738
science, two essays, history.

00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:04.275
I got to do 2.2 government,
I got to do 2.5.

00:29:04.375 --> 00:29:06.478
And altogether,
he takes more time

00:29:06.578 --> 00:29:09.547
than all of it put together.

00:29:09.647 --> 00:29:12.317
Where\'s your momma?

00:29:12.417 --> 00:29:13.118
Joy?

00:29:13.218 --> 00:29:13.685
JOY: Yes?

00:29:13.785 --> 00:29:15.120
Where\'s Layla?

00:29:15.220 --> 00:29:15.920
JOY: Where\'s Layla?

00:29:16.020 --> 00:29:17.655
Yeah.

00:29:17.755 --> 00:29:19.057
Man, tell her to hurry up.

00:30:10.441 --> 00:30:17.815
FEMALE TEACHER: Four animals in
nature that scientists have...

00:30:51.282 --> 00:30:53.885
LEE: You could drop out
anytime from school.

00:30:53.985 --> 00:30:55.820
My friend dropped out
and he wasn\'t even

00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:57.655
a freshman in high school.

00:30:57.755 --> 00:30:58.755
LEE: You should drop out.

00:30:58.790 --> 00:30:59.824
FEMALE STUDENT:
You can\'t drop out.

00:30:59.924 --> 00:31:00.892
FEMALE STUDENT: I made
20 credits in one week.

00:31:00.992 --> 00:31:02.827
MALE STUDENT: Why you
going to drop out?

00:31:02.927 --> 00:31:05.430
LEE: I\'m just going to drop
out because making 20 credits

00:31:05.530 --> 00:31:08.199
is too much.

00:31:08.299 --> 00:31:09.467
But Layla\'s graduating.

00:31:09.567 --> 00:31:10.602
That\'s good for her.

00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:22.947
Give me a hug.

00:31:23.047 --> 00:31:25.717
I\'m hearing that you\'re saying
that you think it\'s too hard.

00:31:29.187 --> 00:31:30.588
It is.

00:31:30.688 --> 00:31:31.689
Tell me, what\'s too hard.

00:31:31.789 --> 00:31:33.925
To get to 20 credits is hard.

00:31:34.025 --> 00:31:35.426
I would guess that
you\'re just kind

00:31:35.526 --> 00:31:38.196
of flipping through and
not really reading, right?

00:31:38.296 --> 00:31:39.464
I\'m just not good in history.

00:31:39.564 --> 00:31:39.964
I...

00:31:40.064 --> 00:31:40.365
OK.

00:31:40.465 --> 00:31:41.032
OK.

00:31:41.132 --> 00:31:42.133
Any area is harder...

00:31:42.233 --> 00:31:43.668
Let\'s let\'s just put
that to the back burner

00:31:43.768 --> 00:31:45.637
and work on something else.

00:31:45.737 --> 00:31:47.017
Me and Mikey...
Was talking about

00:31:47.105 --> 00:31:49.307
this... we both are probably
talking about dropping out,

00:31:49.407 --> 00:31:50.408
like, next... this year.

00:31:50.508 --> 00:31:51.748
Oh no, you\'re not dropping out.

00:31:51.843 --> 00:31:54.078
Because we\'re like,
we\'ll feel like it\'s hard,

00:31:54.178 --> 00:31:56.648
we might as well just drop out
because we know we can\'t do it.

00:31:56.748 --> 00:31:57.849
And when it comes
to school, I just

00:31:57.949 --> 00:31:59.517
don\'t believe I
have what it takes.

00:31:59.617 --> 00:32:00.885
That\'s just silly talk.

00:32:00.985 --> 00:32:06.724
You know, Lee, sometimes you
get into this silly mode, Yeah?

00:32:06.824 --> 00:32:09.560
And dropping out
is a silly mode.

00:32:09.661 --> 00:32:11.796
You\'re going to need
benefits for the baby.

00:32:11.896 --> 00:32:13.164
You\'re going to need a job.

00:32:13.264 --> 00:32:14.999
LEE: That\'s what Layla\'s
going to do, right?

00:32:15.099 --> 00:32:16.801
She is graduating, so...

00:32:16.901 --> 00:32:18.002
No.

00:32:18.102 --> 00:32:21.072
Lee, who is in charge of this?

00:32:21.172 --> 00:32:22.473
LEE: Yeah.

00:32:22.573 --> 00:32:24.075
I\'m in charge of that, but how
can others believe in me when

00:32:24.175 --> 00:32:25.415
I don\'t even believe in myself?

00:32:25.443 --> 00:32:25.943
There we go.

00:32:26.044 --> 00:32:26.911
That\'s the key.

00:32:27.011 --> 00:32:28.079
I don\'t even believe
I can make it.

00:32:28.179 --> 00:32:30.815
You can do this if you choose.

00:32:30.915 --> 00:32:31.816
I don\'t think I can.

00:32:31.916 --> 00:32:34.452
If you choose to do
it, you can do it.

00:32:34.552 --> 00:32:35.687
We will help you.

00:32:45.797 --> 00:32:50.668
[electric guitar playing]

00:33:27.238 --> 00:33:30.708
MALE TEACHER: Joey, I
brought an electric.

00:33:30.808 --> 00:33:31.642
Want to play it?

00:33:31.743 --> 00:33:32.943
JOEY: Yeah, I want to play it.

00:33:33.010 --> 00:33:34.512
It\'s fun.

00:33:34.612 --> 00:33:37.849
[electric guitar]

00:33:37.949 --> 00:33:39.029
MALE TEACHER: Isn\'t it fun?

00:33:39.083 --> 00:33:40.985
Oh yeah.

00:33:41.085 --> 00:33:45.456
[electric guitar]

00:34:00.138 --> 00:34:01.038
MALE TEACHER: All right.

00:34:01.139 --> 00:34:01.806
That was sick.

00:34:01.906 --> 00:34:02.673
That was the guitar.

00:34:02.774 --> 00:34:03.814
That was where you put it.

00:34:03.841 --> 00:34:04.308
All right.

00:34:04.409 --> 00:34:05.143
Thank you.

00:34:05.243 --> 00:34:06.403
JOEY: That thing is too cool.

00:34:09.547 --> 00:34:15.787
You know a lot about math.

00:34:15.887 --> 00:34:17.889
I don\'t know, Mr. Barts,
I\'m not really great...

00:34:17.989 --> 00:34:19.290
Well, let\'s think about that.

00:34:22.260 --> 00:34:27.665
Do you know A 440 megahertz?

00:34:27.765 --> 00:34:28.966
No.

00:34:29.066 --> 00:34:31.068
I\'ve never even heard that...
I don\'t know what that is.

00:34:31.169 --> 00:34:31.903
What is that?

00:34:32.003 --> 00:34:34.138
Don\'t you have a guitar tuner?

00:34:34.238 --> 00:34:35.273
Oh, yeah.

00:34:35.373 --> 00:34:36.707
That\'s crazy.

00:34:36.808 --> 00:34:37.809
But it\'s all math.

00:34:37.909 --> 00:34:39.944
You\'re doing math
when you play music.

00:34:40.044 --> 00:34:43.815
What happens when you take
that A string and you come up

00:34:43.915 --> 00:34:45.783
to the double dots and play?

00:34:45.883 --> 00:34:46.884
JOEY: It\'s the same sound...

00:34:46.984 --> 00:34:49.020
It\'s an A note an octave higher.

00:34:49.120 --> 00:34:52.323
So what is that A string
at the double dots?

00:34:52.423 --> 00:34:54.325
A 880.

00:34:54.425 --> 00:34:56.861
[laughs] So you\'ve
been doing math.

00:34:56.961 --> 00:34:58.296
Oh crap.

00:34:58.396 --> 00:35:00.431
MALE TEACHER: Well now
here, solving inequalities

00:35:00.531 --> 00:35:03.634
with variables on both
sides... if you subtract 10y

00:35:03.734 --> 00:35:06.204
from both sides, you
going to have a negative

00:35:06.304 --> 00:35:07.784
and you\'ll get to
where you don\'t even

00:35:07.872 --> 00:35:08.992
write minus 2a on each side.

00:35:09.040 --> 00:35:10.680
By the time you\'re in
college, you\'ll just

00:35:10.775 --> 00:35:13.177
be bringing it down, saying,
I\'ve got 2a left, minus 20.

00:35:13.277 --> 00:35:14.879
You\'ll do it more in your head.

00:35:14.979 --> 00:35:16.619
FEMALE STUDENT: You\'re
reading Longfellow?

00:35:16.714 --> 00:35:17.014
FEMALE TEACHER: Yep.

00:35:17.114 --> 00:35:18.114
OK.

00:35:18.182 --> 00:35:20.051
Look at the second
stanza, the third line.

00:35:20.151 --> 00:35:23.020
\"Dust thou art, to
dust returnest.\"

00:35:23.120 --> 00:35:24.755
What message should you get?

00:35:24.856 --> 00:35:25.990
Yes, Jennifer?

00:35:26.090 --> 00:35:29.760
JENNIFER: Like, not to...
Like, not to be, like, dumb,

00:35:29.861 --> 00:35:31.028
driven cattle.

00:35:31.128 --> 00:35:34.131
Don\'t just, like, go along
with whatever people say.

00:35:34.232 --> 00:35:35.266
Make your life more you.

00:35:35.366 --> 00:35:36.406
FEMALE TEACHER: Excellent.

00:35:36.434 --> 00:35:37.434
Anyone else?

00:35:40.438 --> 00:35:42.273
FEMALE TEACHER: Lee,
how\'s that coming?

00:35:46.277 --> 00:35:46.978
My eyes hurt.

00:35:47.078 --> 00:35:48.346
Where\'s Hobbes at?

00:35:48.446 --> 00:35:50.181
I need to find Hobbes.

00:35:50.281 --> 00:35:51.549
Hobbes.

00:35:51.649 --> 00:35:54.452
That\'s the guy who thinks poorly
about the humankind... human

00:35:54.552 --> 00:35:56.154
race.

00:35:56.254 --> 00:35:57.121
OK.

00:35:57.221 --> 00:35:59.423
I got him and Locke
mixed up then.

00:35:59.524 --> 00:36:00.564
John Locke\'s the opposite.

00:36:00.658 --> 00:36:01.759
He\'s the good guy.

00:36:01.859 --> 00:36:03.361
He thinks everybody should
have their own rights.

00:36:03.461 --> 00:36:05.329
Sounds like he should be
more of the bad one because

00:36:05.429 --> 00:36:06.330
of his last name, Locke.

00:36:06.430 --> 00:36:07.098
Yeah.

00:36:07.198 --> 00:36:08.366
Vol... Vol... Voltaire?

00:36:08.466 --> 00:36:09.300
Voltaire, yeah.

00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:10.400
He\'s my favorite.

00:36:10.434 --> 00:36:11.836
That\'s my favorite
philosopher ever.

00:36:32.590 --> 00:36:33.870
MISS VILAND: This
credit check we

00:36:33.958 --> 00:36:36.260
chose to recognize the
student who improved

00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:38.262
the most in each homeroom.

00:36:38.362 --> 00:36:41.499
From Miss Alexander\'s
homeroom, Joey McGee.

00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:44.802
[applause and cheering]

00:36:47.705 --> 00:36:48.172
Nice.

00:36:48.272 --> 00:36:48.873
Congratulations.

00:36:48.973 --> 00:36:50.207
Keep up the good work.

00:36:54.278 --> 00:36:56.647
From Mr. Beck\'s
homeroom, Scott Johnson.

00:36:56.747 --> 00:36:59.417
[cheering and applause]

00:36:59.517 --> 00:37:00.517
Congratulations.

00:37:13.931 --> 00:37:15.800
FEMALE TEACHER:
Where have you been?

00:37:15.900 --> 00:37:17.768
I didn\'t... I
didn\'t have a ride.

00:37:17.868 --> 00:37:18.636
Oh my gosh.

00:37:18.736 --> 00:37:19.470
I swear.

00:37:19.570 --> 00:37:20.838
You\'re so full of it.

00:37:20.938 --> 00:37:21.739
You don\'t have a ride?

00:37:21.839 --> 00:37:23.841
There are people
that are homeless,

00:37:23.941 --> 00:37:26.377
there are people that
are pregnant that

00:37:26.477 --> 00:37:27.378
are able to get here.

00:37:27.478 --> 00:37:30.014
You look like a
well-bodied young man

00:37:30.114 --> 00:37:33.017
who would be able
to get to school

00:37:33.117 --> 00:37:34.919
if you had to, if that
was your priority.

00:37:38.089 --> 00:37:40.524
MISS VILAND: Why did you
flip the bus driver off?

00:37:40.625 --> 00:37:42.293
I didn\'t flip the
bus driver off.

00:37:42.393 --> 00:37:45.896
MISS VILAND: Well, let\'s
go back to why would you

00:37:45.997 --> 00:37:47.264
flip the bus driver off?

00:37:47.365 --> 00:37:48.445
MALE STUDENT: I don\'t know.

00:37:48.499 --> 00:37:51.435
Because you don\'t
like the bus driver?

00:37:51.535 --> 00:37:54.338
So let\'s go back to...
Am I right on why

00:37:54.438 --> 00:37:55.840
you flipped the bus driver off?

00:37:55.940 --> 00:37:57.174
Yeah.

00:37:57.274 --> 00:37:58.009
MISS VILAND: This is what we
were talking about yesterday

00:37:58.109 --> 00:37:58.809
out there.

00:37:58.909 --> 00:38:01.345
Where are you heading, man?

00:38:01.445 --> 00:38:03.014
I\'m not going to beat him up.

00:38:03.114 --> 00:38:04.715
MISS VILAND: Do I have
your word on that?

00:38:04.815 --> 00:38:05.883
You have my word on it.

00:38:05.983 --> 00:38:06.584
MISS VILAND: As a man...

00:38:06.684 --> 00:38:07.685
As a man.

00:38:07.785 --> 00:38:08.386
MISS VILAND: Do I have
your word you\'re not

00:38:08.486 --> 00:38:09.220
going to beat him up?

00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:09.854
I\'m not going to beat him up.

00:38:09.954 --> 00:38:10.954
MISS VILAND: OK.

00:38:13.924 --> 00:38:14.325
McGee.

00:38:14.425 --> 00:38:15.159
McGee?

00:38:15.259 --> 00:38:15.660
Yeah.

00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:18.029
Joey.

00:38:18.129 --> 00:38:19.397
Can I get Joey McGee, please?

00:38:19.497 --> 00:38:20.264
FEMALE TEACHER: Sure.

00:38:20.364 --> 00:38:20.931
Thank you.

00:38:21.032 --> 00:38:22.032
He doesn\'t know.

00:38:33.978 --> 00:38:34.879
Morning, Joey.

00:38:34.979 --> 00:38:35.546
Morning.

00:38:35.646 --> 00:38:36.647
It\'s your choice.

00:38:36.747 --> 00:38:37.915
Which one do you want?

00:38:38.015 --> 00:38:41.218
You get a gift certificate
for such good attendance.

00:38:41.318 --> 00:38:43.120
What?

00:38:43.220 --> 00:38:45.489
It\'s a $5 gift certificate.

00:38:45.589 --> 00:38:46.023
Subway.

00:38:46.123 --> 00:38:46.691
[inaudible]

00:38:46.791 --> 00:38:49.093
Subway sounds good.

00:38:49.193 --> 00:38:49.894
Oh, here.

00:38:49.994 --> 00:38:52.830
But I need you to sign this.

00:38:52.930 --> 00:38:53.764
Right here?

00:38:53.864 --> 00:38:54.864
Yeah, right there.

00:39:00.337 --> 00:39:01.072
Everything OK?

00:39:01.172 --> 00:39:02.412
You\'re not in trouble, are you?

00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:04.108
Not that I understand.

00:39:04.208 --> 00:39:05.109
What\'s up?

00:39:05.209 --> 00:39:06.444
No, he\'s doing
really good, actually.

00:39:06.544 --> 00:39:07.912
I guess I\'m getting a gift card.

00:39:08.012 --> 00:39:09.313
Hey!

00:39:09.413 --> 00:39:10.681
For?

00:39:10.781 --> 00:39:11.615
Good attendance.

00:39:11.716 --> 00:39:12.416
All right.

00:39:12.516 --> 00:39:13.384
That\'s what I like to hear.

00:39:13.484 --> 00:39:14.685
OK.

00:39:14.785 --> 00:39:15.820
There you go.

00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:16.320
Sweet.

00:39:16.420 --> 00:39:17.420
Congrats.

00:39:21.058 --> 00:39:22.259
MISS VILAND: OK.

00:39:22.359 --> 00:39:24.528
So it showed that you needed
5 credits at the beginning

00:39:24.628 --> 00:39:26.697
when you first came here,
on your transcript, right?

00:39:26.797 --> 00:39:27.865
Mm-hm.

00:39:27.965 --> 00:39:30.534
And the other one is in econ?

00:39:30.634 --> 00:39:32.103
It shows none.

00:39:32.203 --> 00:39:33.404
Yeah.

00:39:33.504 --> 00:39:34.138
Because I\'m just waiting for
those credits to come in.

00:39:34.238 --> 00:39:34.638
MISS VILAND: OK.

00:39:34.739 --> 00:39:36.040
All right.

00:39:36.140 --> 00:39:37.875
You\'re going to be out of here
before you know it, aren\'t you?

00:39:37.975 --> 00:39:39.877
MALE STUDENT: I
mean, I\'m trying.

00:39:39.977 --> 00:39:42.813
So all I need is seven more
credits and then I\'m... That

00:39:42.913 --> 00:39:43.814
makes me feel so happy.

00:39:43.914 --> 00:39:45.154
MISS VILAND: I am too, Michael.

00:39:45.182 --> 00:39:46.484
I\'m very excited for you.

00:39:46.584 --> 00:39:46.984
Cool.

00:39:47.084 --> 00:39:48.085
Thank you.

00:39:48.185 --> 00:39:49.854
MISS VILAND: I\'m kind of sad.

00:39:49.954 --> 00:39:51.689
You don\'t want to
see me graduate?

00:39:51.789 --> 00:39:53.624
You do, but you don\'t?

00:39:53.724 --> 00:39:54.592
That\'s funny.

00:39:54.692 --> 00:39:55.459
So all this is done?

00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:57.428
Mm-hm.

00:39:57.528 --> 00:40:01.499
And econ... you have four
chapters of econ left.

00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:02.967
That\'s it.

00:40:03.067 --> 00:40:04.702
That\'s amazing.

00:40:04.802 --> 00:40:06.704
Are you done?

00:40:06.804 --> 00:40:08.205
MISS VILAND: Black
Rock High School,

00:40:08.305 --> 00:40:11.742
if you would please join me in
congratulating graduate number

00:40:11.842 --> 00:40:13.911
29, Caitlin Jeffries.

00:40:14.011 --> 00:40:17.381
[cheering]

00:40:17.481 --> 00:40:21.852
[music - pomp and circumstance]

00:40:48.212 --> 00:40:52.082
[whistling]

00:40:53.150 --> 00:40:54.552
All right!

00:40:54.652 --> 00:40:56.020
Yeah, another one!

00:40:56.120 --> 00:40:57.120
Woo!

00:41:00.724 --> 00:41:04.228
All right, I am
looking for number 30!

00:41:04.328 --> 00:41:06.063
That\'s what I\'m looking for.

00:41:06.163 --> 00:41:10.034
I am looking for number 30.

00:41:10.134 --> 00:41:10.601
On three.

00:41:10.701 --> 00:41:12.269
One, two, three.

00:41:12.369 --> 00:41:13.649
You look prettier than a flower.

00:41:19.043 --> 00:41:20.043
[guitar playing]

00:41:20.077 --> 00:41:21.557
MALE STUDENT: This
is one of my songs.

00:41:25.182 --> 00:41:28.219
(SINGING) I\'ll be back one of
these days, but for the moment

00:41:28.319 --> 00:41:29.353
I\'m running away.

00:41:29.453 --> 00:41:31.121
I\'m missing out too
much that awaits.

00:41:31.222 --> 00:41:33.858
I\'ll be far away and
I\'ll live life amazed.

00:41:33.958 --> 00:41:36.760
And life is a maze, moving
too fast, man, life is a race.

00:41:36.861 --> 00:41:38.729
Trying to keep up
an impossible pace.

00:41:38.829 --> 00:41:40.564
Last place, getting
lost in space.

00:41:40.664 --> 00:41:43.300
No place to go and no place
to sleep, no cash to show

00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:44.468
and no place to eat.

00:41:44.568 --> 00:41:46.937
School days that were a
waste to me, living free

00:41:47.037 --> 00:41:48.272
is the place to be.

00:41:48.372 --> 00:41:50.841
Pocket lint in these faded
jeans with my backpack on, just

00:41:50.941 --> 00:41:53.611
chasing dreams with a broken
heart that\'s provoking art,

00:41:53.711 --> 00:41:55.446
art that\'s not judged
by A\'s and B\'s.

00:41:55.546 --> 00:41:57.214
Streets are cracked
and the road is long.

00:41:57.314 --> 00:41:59.149
The world\'s on my
back, just loaded on.

00:41:59.250 --> 00:42:01.719
I\'m on the edge, just
holding on \'til I slip away,

00:42:01.819 --> 00:42:02.819
then I floating on.

00:42:02.853 --> 00:42:04.922
\'Cause I\'m lost, but
I\'m not that lost.

00:42:05.022 --> 00:42:06.757
I\'m scared, but I\'m
not that scared.

00:42:06.857 --> 00:42:09.193
I care, but I just
don\'t care right now.

00:42:09.293 --> 00:42:11.762
Anywhere is better than here.

00:42:11.862 --> 00:42:12.396
[clapping]

00:42:12.496 --> 00:42:13.496
Thanks.

00:42:15.799 --> 00:42:16.799
Thank you.

00:42:38.389 --> 00:42:41.859
MISS VILAND: Just a reminder
that we are officially halfway

00:42:41.959 --> 00:42:43.761
through the credit check.

00:42:43.861 --> 00:42:44.695
MALE STUDENT: Yikes.

00:42:44.795 --> 00:42:46.030
Yes, yikes.

00:42:46.130 --> 00:42:47.364
Exactly.

00:42:47.464 --> 00:42:50.868
That means, in three weeks
we\'re halfway through the year.

00:42:50.968 --> 00:42:53.070
That means, it is so
important that you

00:42:53.170 --> 00:42:54.738
are looking at
your plan folders,

00:42:54.838 --> 00:42:57.608
that you are looking at what
work you need to get done,

00:42:57.708 --> 00:43:01.578
what your credit goals are, and
that you\'re in line for that.

00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:05.349
FEMALE TEACHER: We\'re
going to take our compass,

00:43:05.449 --> 00:43:10.421
find a point anywhere on it
probably kind of a larger arch,

00:43:10.521 --> 00:43:14.658
as long as we can get,
so maybe out in here, OK?

00:43:14.758 --> 00:43:16.527
FEMALE TEACHER: Joey?

00:43:16.627 --> 00:43:19.296
Joey?

00:43:19.396 --> 00:43:21.632
Rise and shine.

00:43:21.732 --> 00:43:22.732
Let\'s have some sparkle.

00:43:26.170 --> 00:43:27.771
So, Joey.

00:43:27.871 --> 00:43:29.039
Joey?

00:43:29.139 --> 00:43:30.140
Yes, I heard you.

00:43:30.240 --> 00:43:31.920
OK, you\'re not going
to sit here like that.

00:43:32.009 --> 00:43:33.010
JOEY: [inaudible].

00:43:33.110 --> 00:43:33.944
Do you want to go to
the office and lay down?

00:43:34.044 --> 00:43:35.045
I already went
there last period.

00:43:35.145 --> 00:43:36.313
Well, you\'re going again.

00:43:36.413 --> 00:43:37.413
Why?

00:43:37.481 --> 00:43:39.183
Because you can\'t be
in here doing that.

00:43:43.253 --> 00:43:47.624
JOEY: [mumbling]

00:43:48.759 --> 00:43:50.060
If you\'re not well,
then you\'re going

00:43:50.160 --> 00:43:52.863
to go lay down for a while.

00:43:52.963 --> 00:43:53.963
JOEY: I\'m fucking tired.

00:43:54.031 --> 00:43:55.466
But you don\'t get
to sleep in class.

00:44:02.806 --> 00:44:03.607
[knocking]

00:44:03.707 --> 00:44:05.009
MISS VILAND:
[inaudible] in here.

00:44:05.109 --> 00:44:07.978
Why are we in here?

00:44:08.078 --> 00:44:08.979
Hey, you.

00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:10.079
Why are you in here?

00:44:13.417 --> 00:44:15.319
You\'re supposed to be in
Miss White\'s, remember?

00:44:15.419 --> 00:44:16.186
We had a deal.

00:44:16.286 --> 00:44:16.820
I don\'t know.

00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:17.955
I don\'t remember.

00:44:18.055 --> 00:44:19.256
I\'m tired.

00:44:19.356 --> 00:44:20.491
How come you\'re so tired?

00:44:20.591 --> 00:44:23.160
I took care of a
baby last night.

00:44:23.260 --> 00:44:25.496
Your ex had a baby.

00:44:25.596 --> 00:44:27.464
Had a baby with one
of my other friends

00:44:27.564 --> 00:44:29.299
and go with another one
of my other friends,

00:44:29.400 --> 00:44:31.435
and then he went to
jail, so he wanted

00:44:31.535 --> 00:44:32.669
me to take care of the kid.

00:44:32.770 --> 00:44:34.004
So [inaudible].

00:44:34.104 --> 00:44:35.939
Yeah, but Joey, before you
can take care of somebody else,

00:44:36.040 --> 00:44:36.707
you have to take
care of yourself.

00:44:36.807 --> 00:44:37.207
I know.

00:44:37.307 --> 00:44:38.475
I\'m OK.

00:44:38.575 --> 00:44:38.976
Yeah.

00:44:39.076 --> 00:44:40.076
OK.

00:44:56.727 --> 00:44:59.063
FEMALE TEACHER: I think
Lee knows enough of us

00:44:59.163 --> 00:45:01.398
and trusts enough of
us... several years,

00:45:01.498 --> 00:45:04.668
even... that I don\'t
think he\'ll leave us.

00:45:04.768 --> 00:45:05.569
I don\'t either.

00:45:05.669 --> 00:45:06.669
But he\'s...

00:45:06.703 --> 00:45:08.238
He feels like it
right now, because he

00:45:08.338 --> 00:45:09.338
was in my sixth period.

00:45:09.373 --> 00:45:11.108
I think it\'s because
Layla is so close.

00:45:11.208 --> 00:45:11.942
Yes.

00:45:12.042 --> 00:45:13.277
That\'s the reason.

00:45:13.377 --> 00:45:15.879
And I know right now he\'s
upset because all his friends

00:45:15.979 --> 00:45:19.450
and kids that are in
his class and everything

00:45:19.550 --> 00:45:21.552
are going to graduate and
he didn\'t pull it out...

00:45:21.652 --> 00:45:22.920
MISS VILAND: Which is why,
today, he got into the thing,

00:45:23.020 --> 00:45:24.054
I hate graduations.

00:45:24.154 --> 00:45:25.722
You want me to come out
and applaud for somebody

00:45:25.823 --> 00:45:26.924
that I don\'t care about?

00:45:27.024 --> 00:45:29.093
It\'s because they\'re all
his friends and he\'s not.

00:45:29.193 --> 00:45:30.961
MISS VILAND: Really, I mean...
I do think it\'s hard for him

00:45:31.061 --> 00:45:33.397
because he\'s only got 100
credits and everybody\'s, you

00:45:33.497 --> 00:45:34.497
know, graduating.

00:45:37.101 --> 00:45:41.004
This many students earned over
20 credits this past six weeks.

00:45:41.105 --> 00:45:42.272
It\'s fabulous.

00:45:42.372 --> 00:45:46.176
I am just astounded by the
work ethic of all of you.

00:45:46.276 --> 00:45:49.313
When I tallied these
up, my first thought

00:45:49.413 --> 00:45:52.516
was of empathy for the teachers
and how much grading this

00:45:52.616 --> 00:45:54.685
means that they\'ve done.

00:45:54.785 --> 00:46:00.924
Earning 28.5 credits,
Layla Schneider.

00:46:01.024 --> 00:46:05.095
[cheering and applause]

00:46:08.165 --> 00:46:09.032
That is amazing.

00:46:09.133 --> 00:46:10.534
So proud of you.

00:46:16.573 --> 00:46:18.442
FEMALE STUDENT: What\'s
your problem Lee?

00:46:18.542 --> 00:46:21.078
And now we\'re going to
make a bit of a leap.

00:46:21.178 --> 00:46:26.383
Earning 31.5 credits,
Miguel Alvarado.

00:46:26.483 --> 00:46:30.721
[cheering and applause]

00:47:19.069 --> 00:47:22.606
Do you want to talk about
what was going on at the house?

00:47:22.706 --> 00:47:24.675
Was anything... was this
a particularly bad week

00:47:24.775 --> 00:47:25.776
at the house?

00:47:25.876 --> 00:47:27.110
No, we were just... they
were just hung over,

00:47:27.211 --> 00:47:28.712
partying at my house.

00:47:28.812 --> 00:47:30.180
Is there a reason for that?

00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:32.549
Is it the beginning of the
month and there\'s more money?

00:47:32.649 --> 00:47:35.319
No, it\'s just they...
We go through phases

00:47:35.419 --> 00:47:36.954
where our house
is crazy, and then

00:47:37.054 --> 00:47:38.956
we\'ll go through weeks
where it\'s pretty boring.

00:47:39.056 --> 00:47:40.958
And then... I don\'t know.

00:47:41.058 --> 00:47:43.594
Last night there was people...
I\'m surprised I woke up.

00:47:43.694 --> 00:47:47.130
I\'m up until, like, 3:00
o\'clock in the morning.

00:47:47.231 --> 00:47:50.968
MISS VILAND: I thought you and
I had talked about the fact

00:47:51.068 --> 00:47:52.903
that you weren\'t using anymore.

00:47:53.003 --> 00:47:54.037
I wasn\'t.

00:47:54.137 --> 00:47:55.505
MISS VILAND: So are you
drinking then, instead?

00:47:55.606 --> 00:47:57.007
I drink occasionally.

00:47:57.107 --> 00:47:59.643
You see what that kind of
lifestyle crates, right?

00:47:59.743 --> 00:48:01.445
Oh god.

00:48:01.545 --> 00:48:03.347
Nobody\'s responsible.

00:48:03.447 --> 00:48:05.916
MISS VILAND: What if we put
you in two science cla...

00:48:06.016 --> 00:48:08.085
You need to start getting
that feeling of success

00:48:08.185 --> 00:48:09.920
again that you had when
you first came here.

00:48:10.020 --> 00:48:13.223
Once you start seeing
the credit slips come in

00:48:13.323 --> 00:48:15.993
and you start feeling
that level of success,

00:48:16.093 --> 00:48:18.095
then you\'re going to
get back on track.

00:48:23.066 --> 00:48:26.870
Joey, I can\'t fix the home life.

00:48:26.970 --> 00:48:27.970
I can\'t fix that.

00:48:58.435 --> 00:49:02.806
[distant arguing]

00:49:14.351 --> 00:49:18.755
[distant yelling and cursing]

00:49:21.825 --> 00:49:23.927
[mumbling]

00:49:24.027 --> 00:49:28.365
[playing chords on guitar]

00:49:49.619 --> 00:49:51.488
MISS VILAND: Um, I\'m
missing some students

00:49:51.588 --> 00:49:54.024
that I care about, that I\'m
trying to get a hold of.

00:49:54.124 --> 00:49:57.327
So does anyone have any way
of contacting Joey McGee?

00:50:00.297 --> 00:50:03.567
Um, what about Lee Bridges?

00:50:03.667 --> 00:50:04.668
You don\'t know?

00:50:04.768 --> 00:50:05.602
You haven\'t seen them
around or anything?

00:50:05.702 --> 00:50:06.982
MALE STUDENT: He\'s
in Twentynine.

00:50:07.037 --> 00:50:07.904
MISS VILAND: He\'s living
in Twentynine now?

00:50:08.004 --> 00:50:08.739
MALE STUDENT: Yeah.

00:50:08.839 --> 00:50:09.706
MISS VILAND: Lee, where are you?

00:50:09.806 --> 00:50:11.742
Why are you still at home?

00:50:11.842 --> 00:50:13.677
You need me to come get you?

00:50:34.931 --> 00:50:36.600
What happened with
you and your momma?

00:50:36.700 --> 00:50:39.503
She... basically, her husband
talked to her into... and she was

00:50:39.603 --> 00:50:42.873
saying that... and is kicking
me out next month or so.

00:50:42.973 --> 00:50:44.307
Because you don\'t
have a diploma?

00:50:44.408 --> 00:50:47.043
LEE: Because I have a baby
and I don\'t have a diploma,

00:50:47.144 --> 00:50:49.679
so he\'s saying they\'re
kicking me out anyways.

00:50:49.780 --> 00:50:52.549
If my mom wanted to be like that
over a dude, then I don\'t care.

00:50:52.649 --> 00:50:54.818
When I leave, I won\'t even
want her a part of my life,

00:50:54.918 --> 00:50:56.398
if that\'s really how
it\'s going to be.

00:51:02.826 --> 00:51:05.028
JOEY: I\'m about five minutes
from blowing my brains out

00:51:05.128 --> 00:51:06.263
if I just keep trying.

00:51:06.363 --> 00:51:08.165
I\'m done trying.

00:51:08.265 --> 00:51:09.566
I\'m just going to go with it.

00:51:09.666 --> 00:51:12.335
And everyone thinks I suck at
everything I do because I never

00:51:12.436 --> 00:51:14.771
commit to it.

00:51:14.871 --> 00:51:16.440
I don\'t care.

00:51:16.540 --> 00:51:18.241
I hate to sound like
a punk-ass teenager,

00:51:18.341 --> 00:51:19.843
but I just don\'t care anymore.

00:51:19.943 --> 00:51:21.511
I don\'t want to live
my life by a plan.

00:51:21.611 --> 00:51:24.648
I don\'t want to live in-between
lines that tell you you have

00:51:24.748 --> 00:51:25.849
to do these certain things.

00:51:25.949 --> 00:51:27.184
Fuck that.

00:51:27.284 --> 00:51:28.785
I\'m tired of everyone telling
me I need to do something.

00:51:28.885 --> 00:51:32.355
Nobody\'s ever even told you you
need to do this, this, this...

00:51:32.456 --> 00:51:33.523
Yes, they do.

00:51:33.623 --> 00:51:35.459
Everyone does.

00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:38.094
Fucking, go to school, get
your high school diploma,

00:51:38.195 --> 00:51:38.995
go to... no.

00:51:39.095 --> 00:51:40.497
Fuck that.

00:51:40.597 --> 00:51:41.631
I\'m all out of options.

00:51:41.731 --> 00:51:43.300
I have no idea.

00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:46.303
He doesn\'t have a TV,
I took his guitar,

00:51:46.403 --> 00:51:48.972
I dumped five gallons
of water on him.

00:51:49.072 --> 00:51:53.944
You know, I\'m not making it
comfortable at home for him.

00:51:54.044 --> 00:51:55.445
We quit doing dishes.

00:51:55.545 --> 00:51:58.448
There\'s no clean
dishes in this house.

00:51:58.548 --> 00:52:01.184
Look at where I am and look at
how hard I struggle right now.

00:52:19.236 --> 00:52:21.204
I really, really want
to graduate a year early.

00:52:21.304 --> 00:52:22.572
I know.

00:52:22.672 --> 00:52:25.509
So we\'re just going to focus
on this one day at a time, OK?

00:52:25.609 --> 00:52:28.578
You can do it, Jennifer.

00:52:28.678 --> 00:52:31.147
Your senior portfolio
is almost done, right?

00:52:31.248 --> 00:52:33.583
This workbooks done.

00:52:33.683 --> 00:52:34.684
That\'s already done.

00:52:34.784 --> 00:52:38.955
Public speaking will
be done tomorrow, OK?

00:52:39.055 --> 00:52:42.125
Pick one thing to work
on on A plus at a time

00:52:42.225 --> 00:52:45.562
and it\'s going to just...
We\'re going to do it.

00:52:45.662 --> 00:52:47.030
I\'m so [inaudible].

00:52:47.130 --> 00:52:48.130
I know.

00:52:48.198 --> 00:52:49.432
We\'re going to get...

00:52:49.533 --> 00:52:50.767
And I keep rubbing my eyebrows
and I just got them done,

00:52:50.867 --> 00:52:51.867
so it burns.

00:52:56.339 --> 00:52:56.806
It\'s OK.

00:52:56.907 --> 00:52:57.407
You can do it.

00:52:57.507 --> 00:52:58.507
OK?

00:52:58.575 --> 00:53:01.278
Look at... look at how
fast it went away.

00:53:01.378 --> 00:53:04.447
My dad was being mean
to me last night though

00:53:04.548 --> 00:53:05.749
and it made me sad.

00:53:05.849 --> 00:53:06.950
Who?

00:53:07.050 --> 00:53:08.318
My dad.

00:53:08.418 --> 00:53:09.819
Don\'t worry about him.

00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:13.056
He\'ll... you\'ll
graduate, you\'ll walk.

00:53:13.156 --> 00:53:14.156
And you know what?

00:53:14.224 --> 00:53:15.525
If you don\'t, you\'re
still going to graduate.

00:53:15.625 --> 00:53:16.905
And that\'s what\'s
most important.

00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:19.162
I know, but I invited him to
my graduation and he, like,

00:53:19.262 --> 00:53:21.298
yelled at me were for
graduating early and, like...

00:53:21.398 --> 00:53:23.033
Oh my goodness, Jennifer.

00:53:23.133 --> 00:53:23.767
He was just mean.

00:53:23.867 --> 00:53:26.236
So you know what?

00:53:26.336 --> 00:53:28.438
You\'re going to go
to college and you\'re

00:53:28.538 --> 00:53:29.938
going to make
something and then you

00:53:30.006 --> 00:53:34.044
can go [taunting noise]
in his face, right?

00:53:34.144 --> 00:53:36.112
Mad because you\'re
graduating early?

00:53:36.212 --> 00:53:37.480
What parent does that?

00:53:40.317 --> 00:53:41.685
We\'ll show him.

00:53:41.785 --> 00:53:44.788
He can come to your
college graduation

00:53:44.888 --> 00:53:49.459
and be mad because you
graduated college, darn you.

00:53:49.559 --> 00:53:52.028
Stinking kid, doing
good with your life.

00:53:52.128 --> 00:53:53.128
We\'re over that.

00:53:56.566 --> 00:53:58.001
That\'s all you\'re focusing on.

00:53:58.101 --> 00:54:00.503
When you finish those
you come see me.

00:54:00.604 --> 00:54:03.106
OK.

00:54:03.206 --> 00:54:05.976
MISS VILAND: Let me ask you
this, are you doing it for him

00:54:06.076 --> 00:54:07.196
or are you doing it for you?

00:54:07.243 --> 00:54:08.443
JENNIFER: I\'m doing it for me.

00:54:08.478 --> 00:54:09.512
OK.

00:54:09.613 --> 00:54:11.453
I know it\'s hard because
you want his approval.

00:54:11.548 --> 00:54:12.315
I get that.

00:54:12.415 --> 00:54:13.650
I understand that.

00:54:13.750 --> 00:54:18.121
But ultimately, you\'ve
got to do stuff for you.

00:54:18.221 --> 00:54:19.255
You know what?

00:54:19.356 --> 00:54:20.924
When my dad died I was
cleaning out his house

00:54:21.024 --> 00:54:22.125
and he was a hoarder.

00:54:22.225 --> 00:54:24.928
I found a letter in there
that was to his lawyer

00:54:25.028 --> 00:54:27.731
when my mom and dad divorced
saying that he wanted

00:54:27.831 --> 00:54:29.111
my brother, but
he didn\'t want me

00:54:29.199 --> 00:54:31.835
and there\'s no way in
hell he would take me.

00:54:31.935 --> 00:54:33.003
OK?

00:54:33.103 --> 00:54:35.972
And I sat and I just
cried and cried and cried.

00:54:36.072 --> 00:54:37.507
All my life I
wanted his approval,

00:54:37.607 --> 00:54:39.309
I wanted his acceptance,
and you know what?

00:54:39.409 --> 00:54:39.909
I never got it.

00:54:40.010 --> 00:54:42.345
And you know what?

00:54:42.445 --> 00:54:44.514
Didn\'t need it.

00:54:44.614 --> 00:54:45.915
OK?

00:54:46.016 --> 00:54:49.486
So don\'t let him have another
moment of your life in sadness.

00:54:52.222 --> 00:54:55.458
FEMALE TEACHER: You know,
people who are being abused

00:54:55.558 --> 00:54:57.761
or are abusing others, you
learned about yourself.

00:54:57.861 --> 00:55:00.964
You got to discuss yourselves
and what your hot buttons were

00:55:01.064 --> 00:55:03.667
and how to handle yourself
when you\'re becoming angry.

00:55:03.767 --> 00:55:05.402
You know, how to
break that cycle.

00:55:05.502 --> 00:55:07.370
Ever since I had a baby,
it fucked my life up.

00:55:07.470 --> 00:55:09.039
I\'m getting kicked
out of my mom\'s house

00:55:09.139 --> 00:55:11.808
even if I don\'t graduate,
which is fucked up

00:55:11.908 --> 00:55:14.411
because her husband wants
me to get kicked out.

00:55:14.511 --> 00:55:15.812
That\'s fucked up.

00:55:15.912 --> 00:55:18.081
I\'m not graduating
because I had a baby

00:55:18.181 --> 00:55:20.617
and since I focused on him
so much, I can\'t graduate.

00:55:20.717 --> 00:55:22.318
I never got to do my work.

00:55:22.419 --> 00:55:25.188
And Since I deal with his
mother, who nags at me 24/7.

00:55:25.288 --> 00:55:26.556
I couldn\'t do my work.

00:55:26.656 --> 00:55:28.391
So all together,
my life is fucked.

00:55:30.694 --> 00:55:31.974
MISS VILAND: You
know what honey?

00:55:32.062 --> 00:55:32.962
I\'m going to tell
you, you\'re right.

00:55:33.063 --> 00:55:35.065
You don\'t have control
over your life,

00:55:35.165 --> 00:55:37.267
because you do have
a responsibility.

00:55:37.367 --> 00:55:38.668
But that\'s not a bad thing.

00:55:38.768 --> 00:55:41.504
LEE: I wanted to graduate
so bad, but I put so much...

00:55:41.604 --> 00:55:45.141
So much focus on the baby and on
the... on the woman of the baby,

00:55:45.241 --> 00:55:46.409
that...

00:55:46.509 --> 00:55:49.179
MISS VILAND: The problem
started before the baby came in.

00:55:49.279 --> 00:55:51.147
You had too much
going against you

00:55:51.247 --> 00:55:54.384
beforehand because you needed
too many credits beforehand.

00:55:54.484 --> 00:55:57.287
It\'s an easy thing for you
to blame Layla and the baby,

00:55:57.387 --> 00:55:58.547
but that\'s not going to help.

00:55:58.621 --> 00:55:59.723
LEE: I don\'t think I can do it.

00:55:59.823 --> 00:56:00.890
I don\'t want to deal with
family or none of that,

00:56:00.990 --> 00:56:02.358
because I see how it is now.

00:56:02.459 --> 00:56:03.460
MISS VILAND: I do
understand that.

00:56:03.560 --> 00:56:04.427
It\'s me all by myself.

00:56:04.527 --> 00:56:05.662
I gotta do it all by myself.

00:56:05.762 --> 00:56:08.164
I see no one... no one\'s
going to be there for me.

00:56:11.868 --> 00:56:14.904
MISS VILAND: Lee, whether the
baby had been there or not,

00:56:15.004 --> 00:56:17.774
you and I would have had the
same conversation this morning.

00:56:17.874 --> 00:56:19.642
And Layla, I don\'t want you to
take this personally, and you

00:56:19.743 --> 00:56:21.377
and I and Lee will get
together again later,

00:56:21.478 --> 00:56:23.113
after Lee gets some of
his frustrations out.

00:56:23.213 --> 00:56:24.814
LEE: It don\'t even
matter if I get a job.

00:56:24.914 --> 00:56:26.194
She fucked my life over anyways.

00:56:26.282 --> 00:56:27.117
MISS VILAND: OK.

00:56:27.217 --> 00:56:28.551
So go ahead and
go out, all right?

00:56:28.651 --> 00:56:29.651
OK.

00:56:31.254 --> 00:56:32.254
Lee.

00:56:44.267 --> 00:56:47.570
You and I talked on
day one and I told you

00:56:47.670 --> 00:56:49.873
that this was going to be a
huge responsibility, right?

00:56:49.973 --> 00:56:52.609
Remember that?

00:56:52.709 --> 00:56:54.344
And do you remember
what else I told you?

00:56:54.444 --> 00:56:55.804
I told you that I
believed that you

00:56:55.879 --> 00:56:57.247
could handle this
responsibility,

00:56:57.347 --> 00:56:59.516
and you\'ve done a good job.

00:56:59.616 --> 00:57:01.751
You\'re just
overwhelmed right now.

00:57:01.851 --> 00:57:06.055
You know in your heart that
she is not the problem.

00:57:06.156 --> 00:57:07.791
You\'ve got a lot on
your plate right now.

00:57:07.891 --> 00:57:09.159
You\'ve got several issues.

00:57:09.259 --> 00:57:12.529
You\'ve got your mom, you\'ve
got school, you\'ve got Layla,

00:57:12.629 --> 00:57:15.365
you\'ve got the baby, you\'ve
got the fact that you

00:57:15.465 --> 00:57:17.467
want to be a teenager still.

00:57:17.567 --> 00:57:18.301
I want to graduate.

00:57:18.401 --> 00:57:19.669
You want to graduate.

00:57:19.769 --> 00:57:20.436
It\'s not even I want to be a
teenager, I want to graduate.

00:57:20.537 --> 00:57:21.437
That\'s what it is.

00:57:21.538 --> 00:57:22.105
OK then.

00:57:22.205 --> 00:57:22.772
All right.

00:57:22.872 --> 00:57:23.573
You know what, Lee?

00:57:23.673 --> 00:57:26.976
If you show me... show me.

00:57:27.076 --> 00:57:29.316
Get 20 credits this credit
check... sixth credit check...

00:57:29.412 --> 00:57:31.815
And then I\'ll let you come
back and finish in the fall.

00:57:31.915 --> 00:57:34.617
You and I both know
that there were times

00:57:34.717 --> 00:57:38.621
that Lee didn\'t work because
Lee didn\'t feel like it.

00:57:38.721 --> 00:57:40.290
All right, that one
was my blame, but...

00:57:40.390 --> 00:57:41.224
MISS VILAND: Right.

00:57:41.324 --> 00:57:42.592
You need to stop
bitching about it,

00:57:42.692 --> 00:57:44.594
and if you want to
make it work then

00:57:44.694 --> 00:57:48.198
I will give you my word that
if you get 20 or more credits

00:57:48.298 --> 00:57:50.567
and are working during
this next credit check,

00:57:50.667 --> 00:57:52.502
I\'ll let you come back.

00:57:52.602 --> 00:57:56.306
I know, Lee, what a good man
you are and what a big heart

00:57:56.406 --> 00:57:57.907
you have.

00:57:58.007 --> 00:58:01.244
So don\'t act big, bad,
and tough with Leyla

00:58:01.344 --> 00:58:02.344
and the ones you love.

00:59:22.525 --> 00:59:26.896
[kids chattering]

01:01:09.298 --> 01:01:11.534
Hi, Mildred?

01:01:11.634 --> 01:01:15.171
It\'s Miss Ambrosius at
Black Rock high school.

01:01:15.271 --> 01:01:16.305
Hey.

01:01:16.406 --> 01:01:18.241
So we\'re a little bit
concerned about Joey.

01:01:18.341 --> 01:01:21.811
He\'s not here again
today and he was

01:01:21.911 --> 01:01:27.583
out yesterday and last
Friday, and... what\'s going on?

01:01:27.683 --> 01:01:28.785
Good morning.

01:01:28.885 --> 01:01:33.523
I\'m assuming Joey\'s being
impossible this morning.

01:01:33.623 --> 01:01:36.459
What did he do?

01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:38.561
He\'s gone?

01:01:38.661 --> 01:01:39.429
OK.

01:01:39.529 --> 01:01:42.265
Um, I would call the police.

01:01:57.447 --> 01:01:59.582
Yesterday and the day before
and the day before that

01:01:59.682 --> 01:02:01.417
and the last two weeks
I\'ve been sleeping

01:02:01.517 --> 01:02:06.222
on Daniel Deboard\'s fucking
recliner outside of his shed

01:02:06.322 --> 01:02:07.557
with a blanket.

01:02:07.657 --> 01:02:09.857
I\'ve been wearing the same
clothes for, like, two weeks,

01:02:09.892 --> 01:02:10.892
two and a half weeks.

01:02:19.769 --> 01:02:21.637
I really want to
graduate from Black Rock.

01:02:21.737 --> 01:02:25.808
You guys have to understand
that, but it\'s just, like...

01:02:25.908 --> 01:02:29.245
But I\'m not going
back to my mom\'s.

01:02:29.345 --> 01:02:30.046
I\'m not now.

01:02:30.146 --> 01:02:32.281
I\'m just stressed out.

01:02:32.381 --> 01:02:33.116
I need to get a job.

01:02:33.216 --> 01:02:34.984
Need to start paying some bills.

01:02:35.084 --> 01:02:37.587
Stop being dependent
on somebody else.

01:02:37.687 --> 01:02:38.588
[guitar playing]

01:02:38.688 --> 01:02:40.723
She\'s not... she\'s
not a bad person.

01:02:40.823 --> 01:02:42.943
She\'s just... she changes
when the drugs are involved,

01:02:43.025 --> 01:02:44.665
and I don\'t even care
that she does drugs.

01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:46.762
I just wish she would
be consistent with me.

01:02:46.863 --> 01:02:48.343
She always talks
about wanting to bond

01:02:48.431 --> 01:02:51.634
and do stuff together and
then, like, we never do.

01:02:51.734 --> 01:02:59.408
(SINGING) My momma told me
when I, when I was young

01:02:59.509 --> 01:03:03.379
do as I say, not as I\'ve done.

01:03:06.983 --> 01:03:13.356
Be a simple man, just fall
in love, find you a girl

01:03:13.456 --> 01:03:15.858
that you can trust.

01:03:15.958 --> 01:03:19.862
Then one day I know
that you\'ll leave.

01:03:23.466 --> 01:03:28.838
That day came sooner
than she expected.

01:03:28.938 --> 01:03:32.341
I wonder why.

01:03:32.441 --> 01:03:39.348
I wanted to hang out with my
best friend because, you know,

01:03:39.448 --> 01:03:43.653
you were never my
mom in the end.

01:03:43.753 --> 01:03:50.159
You were never... you
were never in the end.

01:03:50.259 --> 01:03:56.632
Back in the days
when we used to say

01:03:56.732 --> 01:04:04.140
I love you past the moon and
stars, way beyond, way too far.

01:04:04.240 --> 01:04:12.014
I\'ll always be the one that
you can know, know, know.

01:04:23.926 --> 01:04:25.528
MISS VILAND: So have
you heard from Joey?

01:04:25.628 --> 01:04:27.129
Nah.

01:04:27.230 --> 01:04:28.831
Like I said, I\'m always
here to catch him

01:04:28.931 --> 01:04:30.333
if he falls but
it\'s like, you know,

01:04:30.433 --> 01:04:32.602
you can\'t help someone who
doesn\'t want to be helped.

01:04:32.702 --> 01:04:36.906
If he was really in a situation
in which he couldn\'t go home,

01:04:37.006 --> 01:04:38.507
he would come to my house.

01:04:38.608 --> 01:04:40.543
And then usually when he
doesn\'t come to my house

01:04:40.643 --> 01:04:42.778
and he doesn\'t want to go
home, that\'s just the whole,

01:04:42.878 --> 01:04:44.113
you know, like, drugs thing.

01:04:44.213 --> 01:04:46.382
So, like, at this point I think
he\'s just kind of given up

01:04:46.482 --> 01:04:48.117
on himself.

01:04:48.217 --> 01:04:51.220
It\'s his future, you
know what I mean?

01:04:51.320 --> 01:04:53.689
So how\'d you get to be
so wise beyond your years?

01:04:53.789 --> 01:04:55.069
Like that joke I
was telling you,

01:04:55.157 --> 01:04:56.659
you know, I\'ve been
18 since I was 13,

01:04:56.759 --> 01:05:01.664
so... I guess just looking.

01:05:01.764 --> 01:05:03.332
MISS VILAND: I wish
I could bottle that.

01:05:06.836 --> 01:05:08.437
Jen.

01:05:08.537 --> 01:05:09.272
JENNIFER: Yes?

01:05:09.372 --> 01:05:11.207
Can I borrow your nail polish?

01:05:11.307 --> 01:05:13.676
[girls chattering]

01:05:13.776 --> 01:05:21.776
[music playing]

01:05:25.254 --> 01:05:27.523
Mom, where are you?

01:05:27.623 --> 01:05:29.492
Mom, you need to
be here by 4:00.

01:05:29.592 --> 01:05:30.832
I\'m not giving you a hard time.

01:05:30.860 --> 01:05:32.595
I\'m stressed out, mom.

01:05:32.695 --> 01:05:34.864
I\'m stressed.

01:05:34.964 --> 01:05:37.466
OK, well, just... can
you just be here?

01:05:40.536 --> 01:05:42.905
Mommy, I want you to be here.

01:05:46.942 --> 01:05:54.283
[music playing]

01:05:54.383 --> 01:05:58.721
[crying]

01:06:11.767 --> 01:06:12.767
It\'s OK to cry.

01:06:12.802 --> 01:06:15.004
Let it out.

01:06:15.104 --> 01:06:16.744
You\'ve been trying to
keep it in too long.

01:06:19.675 --> 01:06:23.946
[sobbing]

01:06:29.752 --> 01:06:30.586
MISS VILAND: OK.

01:06:30.686 --> 01:06:31.454
You\'re overwhelmed
and you\'ve got

01:06:31.554 --> 01:06:32.788
to feel good about yourself.

01:06:32.888 --> 01:06:34.528
You get to celebrate
your accomplishments.

01:06:34.623 --> 01:06:37.560
Because I\'m going to tell
you, honey, in life you\'re

01:06:37.660 --> 01:06:38.928
the one you can count on.

01:06:39.028 --> 01:06:40.028
Right?

01:06:48.371 --> 01:06:50.573
MISS VILAND: Teachers, we
will meet in Miss Hill\'s room

01:06:50.673 --> 01:06:51.340
in five minutes.

01:06:51.440 --> 01:06:52.842
Thank you.

01:06:52.942 --> 01:06:55.144
MISS VILAND: With
the students, you

01:06:55.244 --> 01:06:58.047
guys all give of
your heart and soul,

01:06:58.147 --> 01:07:00.683
and it\'s the hardest
job in the district.

01:07:00.783 --> 01:07:05.755
What kind of toll does
working here have on you guys?

01:07:05.855 --> 01:07:08.457
FEMALE TEACHER: You have to
face reality every single day.

01:07:08.557 --> 01:07:10.226
You have to face
the same reality,

01:07:10.326 --> 01:07:12.294
in a way, every single
day because they\'re not

01:07:12.395 --> 01:07:14.897
going anywhere, their issues
aren\'t going anywhere.

01:07:14.997 --> 01:07:17.166
You get involved, you
get personally involved.

01:07:17.266 --> 01:07:19.168
You\'re going to have
to take care of it,

01:07:19.268 --> 01:07:23.406
and that\'s... that\'s
emotionally draining.

01:07:23.506 --> 01:07:25.007
FEMALE TEACHER: I lose sleep.

01:07:25.107 --> 01:07:27.943
I think about our kid who went
straight to a homeless shelter.

01:07:30.913 --> 01:07:31.913
I don\'t like that.

01:07:34.917 --> 01:07:36.685
MISS VILAND: I think
there are a lot of tears

01:07:36.786 --> 01:07:40.856
because... because you do
have the weight of not just,

01:07:40.956 --> 01:07:43.092
can they read the
assignment, but do they

01:07:43.192 --> 01:07:48.664
have a place to sleep tonight,
and do they have food,

01:07:48.764 --> 01:07:52.468
and buying gift
certificates for the,

01:07:52.568 --> 01:07:54.236
you know, family that
the grandma\'s taken

01:07:54.336 --> 01:07:57.907
in all the kids, and
buying water for the boy

01:07:58.007 --> 01:07:59.642
who didn\'t have
water at his house.

01:08:28.971 --> 01:08:33.309
[raindrops]

01:08:46.055 --> 01:08:50.426
[birdsong]

01:08:59.502 --> 01:09:01.403
MALE TEACHER: Oh, you
can see the whole thing!

01:09:05.007 --> 01:09:06.007
So pretty.

01:09:14.783 --> 01:09:15.651
MISS VILAND: All right.

01:09:15.751 --> 01:09:17.419
I\'m going to give
you a head\'s up

01:09:17.520 --> 01:09:19.655
that this is kind of a
depressing, overwhelming

01:09:19.755 --> 01:09:20.489
conversation.

01:09:20.589 --> 01:09:22.525
And I do it with all seniors.

01:09:22.625 --> 01:09:25.928
And it\'s... I call it kind of
the facts of life speech, OK?

01:09:26.028 --> 01:09:27.348
So what we\'re going
to do is we\'re

01:09:27.429 --> 01:09:29.765
going to pretend you\'re 29,
12 years from now, right?

01:09:29.865 --> 01:09:31.267
Now, what we\'re
going to do is we\'re

01:09:31.367 --> 01:09:33.802
going to look at how are you
going to support your family.

01:09:33.903 --> 01:09:35.971
The more you know about
money, the easier your life

01:09:36.071 --> 01:09:36.906
is going to be.

01:09:37.006 --> 01:09:38.140
The better you are
with your money,

01:09:38.240 --> 01:09:39.975
the easier your life will be.

01:09:40.075 --> 01:09:42.344
FEMALE TEACHER: Who wrote you
a letter of recommendation?

01:09:42.444 --> 01:09:43.345
This beautiful lady right here.

01:09:43.445 --> 01:09:44.747
Aww.

01:09:44.847 --> 01:09:46.048
FEMALE TEACHER: This wonderful,
fabulous... thank you so much,

01:09:46.148 --> 01:09:47.148
Miss Viland.

01:09:47.216 --> 01:09:48.517
I would be sucking
up to her and saying,

01:09:48.617 --> 01:09:50.486
thank you, thank you for doing
this at the very last moment.

01:09:50.586 --> 01:09:52.888
Any time somebody does
something for you, a short note.

01:09:52.988 --> 01:09:55.257
Sincerely, comma, put
your name underneath,

01:09:55.357 --> 01:09:56.677
put it in the
envelope, and you\'re

01:09:56.759 --> 01:09:58.227
going to hand it to them.

01:09:58.327 --> 01:09:59.895
I want you to start
realizing that, not

01:09:59.995 --> 01:10:03.065
only are you in charge
of your lives here,

01:10:03.165 --> 01:10:06.068
you\'re in charge of your
lives when you leave here.

01:10:06.168 --> 01:10:07.736
So what I want us
to start doing is,

01:10:07.836 --> 01:10:10.873
I want to start getting that
initial plan for what you\'re

01:10:10.973 --> 01:10:13.108
going to do after Black Rock.

01:10:13.208 --> 01:10:16.378
What comes next, right?

01:10:16.478 --> 01:10:19.648
Now, what are your
plans for next year?

01:10:19.748 --> 01:10:24.086
Next year, um, not sure.

01:10:24.186 --> 01:10:30.793
Well, hopefully get a
job at Petco and then...

01:10:30.893 --> 01:10:31.893
OK.

01:10:31.961 --> 01:10:34.630
Have you put in an
application with Petco?

01:10:34.730 --> 01:10:35.564
LAYLA: Yeah.

01:10:35.664 --> 01:10:37.933
You did it online, yes?

01:10:38.033 --> 01:10:41.036
Is there a reason
that you picked Petco?

01:10:41.136 --> 01:10:47.676
Um, I like animals and
it\'s a new business, so...

01:10:47.776 --> 01:10:48.177
Mm.

01:10:48.277 --> 01:10:49.445
OK.

01:10:49.545 --> 01:10:51.013
Layla, I think
that sometimes you

01:10:51.113 --> 01:10:54.183
sell yourself a little short.

01:10:54.283 --> 01:10:56.151
I would like to see
you consider going out

01:10:56.251 --> 01:10:58.387
to Copper Mountain College.

01:10:58.487 --> 01:11:01.457
You\'re a smart young
lady, but I think

01:11:01.557 --> 01:11:03.726
sometimes you don\'t have
enough confidence in yourself,

01:11:03.826 --> 01:11:05.594
and sometimes you need
somebody to remind you

01:11:05.694 --> 01:11:07.896
how smart you are.

01:11:07.997 --> 01:11:11.367
You can get your job
at Petco or wherever,

01:11:11.467 --> 01:11:13.535
and you can still go to college.

01:11:13.636 --> 01:11:14.870
And you can still be a mommy.

01:11:14.970 --> 01:11:17.072
And I know it\'s a lot to
juggle, but you know what?

01:11:17.172 --> 01:11:19.575
Women do it all the time.

01:11:19.675 --> 01:11:21.543
How are things going with Lee?

01:11:21.644 --> 01:11:22.845
LAYLA: Good.

01:11:22.945 --> 01:11:24.613
It\'s just, sometimes... he
has his days sometimes where

01:11:24.713 --> 01:11:26.649
he just gives up on everything.

01:11:26.749 --> 01:11:28.884
MISS VILAND: Right.

01:11:28.984 --> 01:11:31.153
Um, is he being good to you?

01:11:31.253 --> 01:11:31.987
Yeah.

01:11:32.087 --> 01:11:33.087
MISS VILAND: OK.

01:11:33.122 --> 01:11:34.690
Well, not when he\'s
acting like that.

01:11:34.790 --> 01:11:36.525
MISS VILAND: Not when
he\'s acting like that.

01:11:39.428 --> 01:11:42.564
Here\'s the thing, is that you
deserve to be treated really,

01:11:42.665 --> 01:11:43.665
really nicely.

01:11:43.732 --> 01:11:46.635
And if you\'re not,
that\'s not good

01:11:46.735 --> 01:11:48.837
for you to put up
with that, right?

01:11:48.937 --> 01:11:52.241
Because I care about you and
I want to make sure you\'re OK.

01:11:52.341 --> 01:11:52.808
OK.

01:11:52.908 --> 01:11:53.908
MISS VILAND: OK.

01:11:59.815 --> 01:12:01.083
Good morning.

01:12:01.183 --> 01:12:02.551
Good morning, good morning.

01:12:02.651 --> 01:12:03.651
How are you?

01:12:03.719 --> 01:12:06.622
[gasping] Oh, I was worried!

01:12:06.722 --> 01:12:08.624
I had everybody looking for you.

01:12:08.724 --> 01:12:09.425
JOEY: Yeah, I know.

01:12:09.525 --> 01:12:10.525
I heard.

01:12:10.559 --> 01:12:11.427
MISS VILAND: I\'m so
glad you\'re here.

01:12:11.527 --> 01:12:12.328
Dog!

01:12:12.428 --> 01:12:13.428
Hi.

01:12:18.300 --> 01:12:19.101
How are you?

01:12:19.201 --> 01:12:19.968
Been better.

01:12:20.069 --> 01:12:20.803
Yeah?

01:12:20.903 --> 01:12:22.237
How\'s your mom?

01:12:22.337 --> 01:12:23.706
I\'m not even going to ask.

01:12:23.806 --> 01:12:25.841
MALE STUDENT: Joey, you
still need a place to stay?

01:12:25.941 --> 01:12:28.510
JOEY: I got a place for
now, until it erupts then.

01:12:33.916 --> 01:12:34.916
I miss my coffee pot.

01:12:34.983 --> 01:12:36.151
I miss my coffee grinder.

01:12:36.251 --> 01:12:38.220
I miss everything... I miss
everything about my house.

01:12:38.320 --> 01:12:40.556
I really do.

01:12:40.656 --> 01:12:42.057
MALE STUDENT: Why\'d you leave?

01:12:42.157 --> 01:12:43.258
My mom.

01:12:43.358 --> 01:12:45.427
She just accused me of
stealing somebody\'s drugs.

01:12:45.527 --> 01:12:47.529
I just woke up to her
screaming and yelling at me.

01:12:50.666 --> 01:12:52.000
Nothing new.

01:12:52.101 --> 01:12:54.937
I thought she was just
on another bad trip.

01:12:55.037 --> 01:12:56.638
I walked out the door.

01:12:56.739 --> 01:13:00.075
My mom was making it like a
joke, like, oh, Joey\'s leaving.

01:13:00.175 --> 01:13:01.443
Watch this.

01:13:01.543 --> 01:13:03.178
Thought I was drinking.

01:13:03.278 --> 01:13:05.080
MALE STUDENT: If I lived
at my parents\' house,

01:13:05.180 --> 01:13:09.351
I\'d invite you over to stay, but
I didn\'t want to go there much.

01:13:09.451 --> 01:13:11.954
I\'m not mad at you for not
giving me a place to stay.

01:13:12.054 --> 01:13:13.322
It\'s a lot to ask, dude.

01:13:13.422 --> 01:13:14.923
That\'s why I didn\'t even ask.

01:13:15.023 --> 01:13:17.726
It\'s like, hey, friend\'s
mom, can my buddy Joey

01:13:17.826 --> 01:13:18.727
stay and live with us?

01:13:18.827 --> 01:13:20.963
And can you feed
him and clothe him?

01:13:21.063 --> 01:13:22.063
And buy him a toothbrush?

01:13:26.001 --> 01:13:26.835
MISS VILAND: Hi.

01:13:26.935 --> 01:13:27.935
Hi.

01:13:27.970 --> 01:13:30.005
MISS VILAND: How are you?

01:13:30.105 --> 01:13:32.307
What does that mean?

01:13:32.407 --> 01:13:33.509
I came to school.

01:13:33.609 --> 01:13:35.210
MISS VILAND: That\'s a step
in the right direction.

01:13:35.310 --> 01:13:36.750
That\'s a step in
the right direction.

01:13:36.845 --> 01:13:38.313
I needed to sleep
yesterday though.

01:13:38.413 --> 01:13:41.650
I\'ve slept in some
strange places.

01:13:41.750 --> 01:13:43.418
MISS VILAND: Such as?

01:13:43.519 --> 01:13:45.687
Well, one was a bus stop.

01:13:45.788 --> 01:13:47.222
MISS VILAND: The
one in Twentynine?

01:13:47.322 --> 01:13:49.091
Yeah, there\'s one over
in Stater Brothers.

01:13:49.191 --> 01:13:50.325
I slept at a bus stop there.

01:13:50.425 --> 01:13:51.894
That was the best one.

01:13:51.994 --> 01:13:54.997
MISS VILAND: And
the reason being?

01:13:55.097 --> 01:13:57.032
I just... I wasn\'t going
back to that house.

01:13:57.132 --> 01:13:57.432
MISS VILAND: OK.

01:13:57.533 --> 01:13:58.267
Why?

01:13:58.367 --> 01:13:59.334
What\'s going on at the house?

01:13:59.434 --> 01:14:01.537
JOEY: It was... it was
just pretty rough.

01:14:01.637 --> 01:14:03.238
MISS VILAND: Is your
mom being grumpy?

01:14:03.338 --> 01:14:04.106
She\'s always awake.

01:14:04.206 --> 01:14:05.206
MISS VILAND: What\'s that?

01:14:05.274 --> 01:14:06.508
She\'s always awake.

01:14:06.608 --> 01:14:07.808
MISS VILAND: Are you partying?

01:14:07.876 --> 01:14:08.510
No.

01:14:08.610 --> 01:14:09.111
Are you clean?

01:14:09.211 --> 01:14:10.412
I... yeah, kind of.

01:14:10.512 --> 01:14:11.413
No, you\'re not.

01:14:11.513 --> 01:14:13.715
I can tell by the
way you say that.

01:14:13.816 --> 01:14:14.950
Kind of, on and off.

01:14:15.050 --> 01:14:17.653
You\'ve been in here bitching
about the effect of that

01:14:17.753 --> 01:14:18.754
on your mom.

01:14:18.854 --> 01:14:20.222
JOEY: It\'s the only way
I can deal with her.

01:14:20.322 --> 01:14:23.091
I know, but... but do you see
the illogical path that is?

01:14:23.192 --> 01:14:24.593
JOEY: I don\'t do what she does.

01:14:24.693 --> 01:14:25.961
I\'m completely opposite of her.

01:14:26.061 --> 01:14:27.796
I\'ve always been
opposite of her.

01:14:27.896 --> 01:14:29.431
MISS VILAND: Well,
what do you do then?

01:14:29.531 --> 01:14:30.531
What do I do?

01:14:30.566 --> 01:14:31.686
I\'d like to clean the house.

01:14:31.733 --> 01:14:33.268
I like to sit in my
room, play guitar,

01:14:33.368 --> 01:14:34.236
or play with my little brother.

01:14:34.336 --> 01:14:35.337
MISS VILAND: No, no.

01:14:35.437 --> 01:14:37.606
I\'m talking about as
far as drug usage goes.

01:14:37.706 --> 01:14:41.577
Oh, what do I... I\'m... me
and her are in the same boat.

01:14:41.677 --> 01:14:42.778
Same stuff.

01:14:42.878 --> 01:14:44.580
MISS VILAND: Well, I
thought she was using meth?

01:14:44.680 --> 01:14:45.914
Mm-hm.

01:14:46.014 --> 01:14:47.649
MISS VILAND: Oh dear god, Joey.

01:14:47.749 --> 01:14:48.784
JOEY: Yeah.

01:14:48.884 --> 01:14:51.520
I\'ve never... oh, it\'s
just... the last couple

01:14:51.620 --> 01:14:52.700
months have been too crazy.

01:14:55.357 --> 01:14:59.127
That... that... Joey... that... I
have a pit in my stomach right

01:14:59.228 --> 01:15:02.598
now, honestly, about that.

01:15:02.698 --> 01:15:03.599
Ah...

01:15:03.699 --> 01:15:05.267
MISS VILAND: I
mean, honestly, you

01:15:05.367 --> 01:15:07.436
can have all these great
goals and everything, just

01:15:07.536 --> 01:15:11.640
like... I bet your mother at
your age had great goals.

01:15:11.740 --> 01:15:14.643
But what happened is, she got
involved with drugs, right?

01:15:14.743 --> 01:15:16.144
JOEY: Yeah.

01:15:16.245 --> 01:15:16.645
OK.

01:15:16.745 --> 01:15:17.745
So...

01:15:17.813 --> 01:15:19.081
JOEY: I still have
hopes and dreams though.

01:15:19.181 --> 01:15:20.816
Well, but I\'m saying to you
that the drugs will take those

01:15:20.916 --> 01:15:22.217
away if...

01:15:22.317 --> 01:15:23.317
Nah.

01:15:25.621 --> 01:15:28.101
MISS VILAND: Are you going to
do this school thing and do it...

01:15:28.190 --> 01:15:29.424
Oh yeah, I\'m here.

01:15:29.524 --> 01:15:30.225
MISS VILAND: OK.

01:15:30.325 --> 01:15:32.761
JOEY: I\'m going to graduate.

01:15:32.861 --> 01:15:33.861
MISS VILAND: OK.

01:15:33.896 --> 01:15:35.797
Here\'s... here\'s what
we\'re going to do.

01:15:35.898 --> 01:15:40.035
I would like to... for a while I
would like to have a check-in,

01:15:40.135 --> 01:15:41.403
check-out with you.

01:15:41.503 --> 01:15:43.672
That means in the morning I\'d
like you to check in with me

01:15:43.772 --> 01:15:46.174
and show me what you
did the night before,

01:15:46.275 --> 01:15:48.477
and that one of the questions
that will always be asked

01:15:48.577 --> 01:15:51.580
is, are you clean today?

01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:52.281
OK.

01:15:52.381 --> 01:15:53.381
MISS VILAND: All right.

01:16:19.574 --> 01:16:23.946
For those of you who aspire
to graduate this year,

01:16:24.046 --> 01:16:26.081
it\'s time to pick
up the pace, time

01:16:26.181 --> 01:16:29.318
to stop any wasting of
time and day-dreaming

01:16:29.418 --> 01:16:32.220
and socializing, and
start picking up the pace.

01:16:32.321 --> 01:16:33.655
FEMALE TEACHER:
This is everything

01:16:33.755 --> 01:16:37.826
as of 7:00 this morning, OK?

01:16:37.926 --> 01:16:39.661
Right now you have 10.5.

01:16:39.761 --> 01:16:42.898
I know you had a deal
with Miss Viland about 20.

01:16:42.998 --> 01:16:44.132
LEE: Yeah.

01:16:44.232 --> 01:16:46.468
So this next week you\'re
going to have to move on it.

01:16:46.568 --> 01:16:47.402
FEMALE TEACHER: OK.

01:16:47.502 --> 01:16:48.670
And then you have
your government.

01:16:48.770 --> 01:16:54.076
I want you to focus on the
English and the histories.

01:16:54.176 --> 01:16:55.177
OK.

01:16:55.277 --> 01:16:56.845
FEMALE TEACHER: Oo, this
is going to be ugly.

01:16:56.945 --> 01:16:58.914
We really need to
get busy on this.

01:16:59.014 --> 01:17:00.515
Which one did you just turn in?

01:17:00.615 --> 01:17:01.650
FEMALE STUDENT: Chapter one.

01:17:01.750 --> 01:17:02.818
FEMALE TEACHER: Do you
have a computer at home?

01:17:02.918 --> 01:17:03.952
FEMALE STUDENT: No.

01:17:04.052 --> 01:17:05.887
So let\'s get you in to
one of the classrooms,

01:17:05.988 --> 01:17:09.691
get you zipping on A plus,
and get this stuff done.

01:17:09.791 --> 01:17:10.926
On your mark, get set, go.

01:17:11.026 --> 01:17:13.095
MISS VILAND: So you will
graduate this credit check.

01:17:13.195 --> 01:17:14.930
There\'s no doubt in my mind.

01:17:15.030 --> 01:17:17.199
FEMALE STUDENT:
Yeah, I... oh my god.

01:17:17.299 --> 01:17:17.933
This is scary.

01:17:18.033 --> 01:17:18.367
MISS VILAND: I know.

01:17:18.467 --> 01:17:19.301
It is.

01:17:19.401 --> 01:17:21.069
I don\'t want to
leave high school.

01:17:21.169 --> 01:17:22.637
MISS VILAND: And
I\'ve had students

01:17:22.738 --> 01:17:24.673
get done and keep coming here.

01:17:24.773 --> 01:17:25.607
They just keep coming.

01:17:25.707 --> 01:17:26.575
We don\'t kick you out.

01:17:26.675 --> 01:17:27.542
As long as you have
good attendance

01:17:27.642 --> 01:17:28.944
and aren\'t a
discipline problem, you

01:17:29.044 --> 01:17:31.680
can come work on your
electives and read and work

01:17:31.780 --> 01:17:33.348
on more things just
because you want to.

01:17:33.448 --> 01:17:35.584
You can get more
credits at our school.

01:17:35.684 --> 01:17:36.418
That\'s so scary.

01:17:36.518 --> 01:17:37.518
MISS VILAND: It is scary.

01:17:37.586 --> 01:17:39.026
What you want to do
what you\'re done?

01:17:39.121 --> 01:17:42.190
I, um... I\'m planning on
working up at Sky Harbor,

01:17:42.290 --> 01:17:44.226
but I don\'t want to
graduate high school.

01:17:44.326 --> 01:17:44.893
MISS VILAND: OK.

01:17:44.993 --> 01:17:45.827
It\'s scary.

01:17:45.927 --> 01:17:46.661
MISS VILAND: You
know what, honey?

01:17:46.762 --> 01:17:47.429
Listen.

01:17:47.529 --> 01:17:48.529
You\'re not alone in that.

01:17:48.563 --> 01:17:49.898
You want to know how
many times I have

01:17:49.998 --> 01:17:51.198
this conversation with people?

01:17:51.266 --> 01:17:52.334
Because it\'s scary.

01:17:52.434 --> 01:17:53.802
It\'s really scary.

01:17:53.902 --> 01:17:54.970
MISS VILAND: It is very scary.

01:17:55.070 --> 01:17:56.238
And I don\'t want to
graduate from high school.

01:17:56.338 --> 01:17:58.306
MISS VILAND: I know.

01:17:58.407 --> 01:18:00.375
FEMALE STUDENT: It\'s just
scary thinking about how

01:18:00.475 --> 01:18:02.411
I\'m going to be an adult soon.

01:18:02.511 --> 01:18:04.846
I don\'t want to grow up.

01:18:04.946 --> 01:18:06.148
You know what?

01:18:06.248 --> 01:18:07.288
You don\'t have to grow up.

01:18:07.382 --> 01:18:08.382
Look at Miss Ambrosius.

01:18:08.417 --> 01:18:09.017
Has she grow up yet?

01:18:09.117 --> 01:18:09.684
FEMALE STUDENT: No.

01:18:09.785 --> 01:18:10.218
No.

01:18:10.318 --> 01:18:11.386
She hasn\'t.

01:18:11.486 --> 01:18:12.988
FEMALE STUDENT: It
just looks so hard.

01:18:13.088 --> 01:18:16.124
Like, I watch my parents go
through it and it\'s too hard.

01:18:16.224 --> 01:18:17.224
I don\'t want to do it.

01:18:17.259 --> 01:18:17.926
MISS VILAND: OK.

01:18:18.026 --> 01:18:20.262
What scares you the most?

01:18:20.362 --> 01:18:22.464
I\'m going on my own,
like my parents said.

01:18:22.564 --> 01:18:24.666
Like, that I\'m going to
have to do it on my own.

01:18:24.766 --> 01:18:27.469
Like, you\'re going to find
a way to do it your own.

01:18:27.569 --> 01:18:30.939
They\'re going to
teach me how life is,

01:18:31.039 --> 01:18:33.975
and that\'s just how
my parents grew up.

01:18:36.511 --> 01:18:38.680
FEMALE TEACHER: Don\'t forget,
your service learning log

01:18:38.780 --> 01:18:39.648
is worth a credit.

01:18:39.748 --> 01:18:41.683
You need to get
those pre-approved.

01:18:41.783 --> 01:18:46.621
So within the next week, I
want to see your PE... psst.

01:18:46.721 --> 01:18:48.590
Within the next week I
want to see your service

01:18:48.690 --> 01:18:49.858
learning log plans.

01:18:49.958 --> 01:18:51.860
MISS VILAND: What are we
going to do about Joey?

01:18:51.960 --> 01:18:54.596
I don\'t know what
to do about Joey.

01:18:54.696 --> 01:18:56.665
He needs counseling right now.

01:18:56.765 --> 01:18:59.167
He needs support.

01:18:59.267 --> 01:19:02.838
He needs somebody who
is there who cares.

01:19:02.938 --> 01:19:06.441
I ain\'t giving him a
referral for counselling.

01:19:06.541 --> 01:19:07.676
Why... ho won\'t go.

01:19:07.776 --> 01:19:08.844
OFFICER: I know.

01:19:08.944 --> 01:19:10.846
I mean, I haven\'t put
a referral in either

01:19:10.946 --> 01:19:12.247
because he told me he won\'t go.

01:19:12.347 --> 01:19:13.482
He won\'t do it.

01:19:13.582 --> 01:19:15.283
OFFICER: I\'ve done it before
and that\'s what happens.

01:19:15.383 --> 01:19:17.152
He doesn\'t go.

01:19:17.252 --> 01:19:19.454
I am... I am desperate
for solutions.

01:19:19.554 --> 01:19:22.357
I think he\'s using again.

01:19:22.457 --> 01:19:25.861
I just... I\'m... I\'m worried
he\'s spiraling downward,

01:19:25.961 --> 01:19:27.863
and I don\'t know
what more to do.

01:19:27.963 --> 01:19:29.731
Well, I... yeah.

01:19:33.768 --> 01:19:36.104
JENNIFER: The fact that
my dad is, like, not

01:19:36.204 --> 01:19:41.877
supporting me and was really
hard... he blames... he thinks

01:19:41.977 --> 01:19:43.217
my grandma\'s a horrible person.

01:19:43.278 --> 01:19:44.980
He doesn\'t like my mom.

01:19:45.080 --> 01:19:49.351
He thinks we\'re all... he thinks
bad of my side of the family.

01:19:49.451 --> 01:19:52.154
I think the fact that I grew
up with them and around them

01:19:52.254 --> 01:19:53.534
and the fact that
they raised me,

01:19:53.622 --> 01:19:55.724
he expected me to
be just like them.

01:19:55.824 --> 01:19:57.359
But my grandma\'s
not a bad person.

01:19:57.459 --> 01:19:59.161
But, like, she didn\'t
graduate high school.

01:19:59.261 --> 01:20:01.796
My mom and my grandma,
they\'ve all worked in bars.

01:20:01.897 --> 01:20:05.467
He just expected me to be a part
of that cycle, which I\'m not.

01:20:05.567 --> 01:20:07.335
Which I think he\'s mad at.

01:20:35.597 --> 01:20:38.266
FEMALE STUDENT: I see myself
and what I\'ve been through

01:20:38.366 --> 01:20:41.236
and I sit there and I
think, how many other people

01:20:41.336 --> 01:20:43.905
have been through this?

01:20:44.005 --> 01:20:45.774
MALE STUDENT: I want
to better my life.

01:20:45.874 --> 01:20:49.110
Better than my dad\'s,
better than my mom\'s.

01:20:49.211 --> 01:20:51.313
They used to tweak all the
time when I was little,

01:20:51.413 --> 01:20:53.014
and I\'ve seen what
it\'s done to them.

01:20:53.114 --> 01:20:56.618
[gunshots]

01:20:56.718 --> 01:21:00.121
FEMALE STUDENT: Not many
people actually help people.

01:21:00.222 --> 01:21:03.225
They don\'t even, like, care
about other people\'s problems

01:21:03.325 --> 01:21:05.994
in this world.

01:21:06.094 --> 01:21:07.495
I just can\'t live like that.

01:21:13.468 --> 01:21:15.904
MALE STUDENT: I guess
I\'m just still a kid.

01:21:16.004 --> 01:21:17.444
I still just want
to just play around

01:21:17.539 --> 01:21:20.875
and mess around and stuff.

01:21:20.976 --> 01:21:24.112
And I feel like I\'m just
imprisoned in the high desert.

01:21:24.212 --> 01:21:25.847
I just need to get out of here.

01:21:29.451 --> 01:21:31.686
MALE STUDENT: You gotta learn
how to just like, kind of,

01:21:31.786 --> 01:21:34.422
take care of yourself and
take care of your brothers.

01:21:34.522 --> 01:21:38.093
And you just grow
up when you have to.

01:21:38.193 --> 01:21:39.833
FEMALE STUDENT: I want
to be my own person

01:21:39.928 --> 01:21:43.031
and be, like, accepted as such.

01:21:43.131 --> 01:21:46.534
I don\'t look down on people for
little things like their past

01:21:46.635 --> 01:21:47.936
or anything.

01:21:48.036 --> 01:21:50.805
What I look down on is, like,
if you have so much opportunity

01:21:50.905 --> 01:21:52.307
and you don\'t take it.

01:21:52.407 --> 01:21:56.211
Why do you choose to fail?

01:21:56.311 --> 01:21:59.981
[rhythmic tapping]

01:22:01.716 --> 01:22:03.685
MALE STUDENT: You know,
I\'m not mad at you at all.

01:22:03.785 --> 01:22:06.288
I\'m more just, like, I can\'t
be mad at you for something

01:22:06.388 --> 01:22:08.957
you\'re doing, because
it only affects you.

01:22:09.057 --> 01:22:13.328
[guitar playing]

01:22:13.428 --> 01:22:15.330
I\'m more of just upset.

01:22:15.430 --> 01:22:17.232
Like, you know what\'s
right and wrong.

01:22:17.332 --> 01:22:20.568
I can\'t be mad at
you for your life.

01:22:20.669 --> 01:22:24.706
I\'m just upset because
you can do way better.

01:22:24.806 --> 01:22:28.310
You\'re smart and you and I
both know that you\'re just

01:22:28.410 --> 01:22:29.744
choosing not to.

01:22:40.488 --> 01:22:44.025
MISS VILAND: Wha...
I\'m... help me out.

01:22:44.125 --> 01:22:46.261
Because, what are you...
What are you going to do?

01:22:46.361 --> 01:22:48.296
I know you turn 18,
what, in a month?

01:22:48.396 --> 01:22:48.997
Two.

01:22:49.097 --> 01:22:49.764
MISS VILAND: Two months.

01:22:49.864 --> 01:22:51.599
What are your plans?

01:22:51.700 --> 01:22:53.068
I mean, you\'re
smart enough to know

01:22:53.168 --> 01:22:55.537
you\'ve got to have some plans.

01:22:55.637 --> 01:22:56.938
I don\'t know yet.

01:23:00.775 --> 01:23:08.650
MISS VILAND: Your choice then
it is to not... not play the game

01:23:08.750 --> 01:23:09.851
that you need to do.

01:23:09.951 --> 01:23:11.186
What, game?

01:23:11.286 --> 01:23:14.422
The game where I have to find
something to eat everyday?

01:23:14.522 --> 01:23:16.358
Yeah, I play that game everyday.

01:23:24.032 --> 01:23:32.032
MISS VILAND: Diaz, Boyden,
Montgomery, Martin, Trail,

01:23:32.874 --> 01:23:36.611
Coffield, Schmidt, Yassin...

01:23:36.711 --> 01:23:37.312
What is that?

01:23:37.412 --> 01:23:38.046
Your school ID.

01:23:38.146 --> 01:23:39.881
Do you have your ID?

01:23:39.981 --> 01:23:40.648
You guys took it.

01:23:40.749 --> 01:23:41.282
No.

01:23:41.383 --> 01:23:41.950
We gave it to you.

01:23:42.050 --> 01:23:42.784
We don\'t keep your...

01:23:42.884 --> 01:23:43.985
You never gave it to me.

01:23:44.085 --> 01:23:45.253
At the beginning of the year.

01:23:45.353 --> 01:23:46.353
The first week of school.

01:23:46.421 --> 01:23:47.222
You guys never gave me my ID.

01:23:47.322 --> 01:23:48.523
I never got it.

01:23:48.623 --> 01:23:50.392
Well, though, if your mom\'s
already receiving services

01:23:50.492 --> 01:23:52.394
for you when you\'re
back home, then...

01:23:52.494 --> 01:23:53.962
My mom doesn\'t get shit.

01:23:54.062 --> 01:23:55.830
Are you... where are you living?

01:23:55.930 --> 01:23:56.498
My grandma\'s.

01:23:56.598 --> 01:23:57.632
She\'s fucking broke.

01:23:57.732 --> 01:23:59.801
No, don\'t... don\'t use
that profanity with me.

01:24:02.337 --> 01:24:03.972
We\'re going to start
doing things the way

01:24:04.072 --> 01:24:07.308
all students do things.

01:24:07.409 --> 01:24:08.943
FEMALE TEACHER: So
is x 0 in this case?

01:24:09.043 --> 01:24:09.677
MALE STUDENT: No.

01:24:09.778 --> 01:24:10.378
FEMALE TEACHER: No.

01:24:10.478 --> 01:24:11.012
So is it an intercept?

01:24:11.112 --> 01:24:11.679
MALE STUDENT: No.

01:24:11.780 --> 01:24:12.781
FEMALE TEACHER: No.

01:24:12.881 --> 01:24:14.282
So for us to see that
that\'s an intercept,

01:24:14.382 --> 01:24:15.622
x would be 0 right away, right?

01:24:15.717 --> 01:24:16.384
MALE STUDENT: Mm-hm.

01:24:16.484 --> 01:24:17.152
FEMALE TEACHER: OK, good.

01:24:17.252 --> 01:24:18.086
So it\'s not an intercept.

01:24:18.186 --> 01:24:20.121
But I do have a
point and a slope,

01:24:20.221 --> 01:24:22.957
so I can start at point
slope form, correct?

01:24:23.057 --> 01:24:27.429
Which is our new form that
we are learning, correct?

01:24:27.529 --> 01:24:29.431
MALE STUDENT: So we can
do point slope formulas?

01:24:29.531 --> 01:24:30.131
FEMALE TEACHER: Point slope.

01:24:30.231 --> 01:24:30.765
Here we start with that.

01:24:30.865 --> 01:24:31.433
So it is y, right?

01:24:31.533 --> 01:24:32.233
MALE STUDENT: Yep.

01:24:32.333 --> 01:24:32.867
FEMALE TEACHER: Minus what?

01:24:32.967 --> 01:24:33.601
MALE STUDENT: 3.

01:24:33.701 --> 01:24:34.369
FEMALE TEACHER: 3.

01:24:34.469 --> 01:24:36.604
Is equal to?

01:24:36.704 --> 01:24:37.605
MALE STUDENT: 1 over 4.

01:24:37.705 --> 01:24:38.540
FEMALE TEACHER: Slope?

01:24:38.640 --> 01:24:39.374
MALE STUDENT: [inaudible].

01:24:39.474 --> 01:24:40.775
FEMALE TEACHER: Which is 1/4.

01:24:40.875 --> 01:24:42.377
You\'re too fast for us there.

01:24:42.477 --> 01:24:44.612
X... what?

01:24:44.712 --> 01:24:45.712
MALE STUDENT: Positive 2.

01:24:45.747 --> 01:24:46.781
Plus 2.

01:24:46.881 --> 01:24:49.350
FEMALE TEACHER: Minus
a negative is a plus 2.

01:24:49.451 --> 01:24:50.451
[inaudible] shoes.

01:25:03.198 --> 01:25:04.638
FEMALE TEACHER: If
you could bust out

01:25:04.732 --> 01:25:06.768
the electives in the
summer you can be at

01:25:06.868 --> 01:25:08.903
65 or a little bit
lower for a year.

01:25:09.003 --> 01:25:11.206
Normally you do 60
in a year anyway,

01:25:11.306 --> 01:25:13.107
so totally doable for you.

01:25:13.208 --> 01:25:14.509
You did 20 this one.

01:25:14.609 --> 01:25:17.545
If you did 20 every single
credit check next year

01:25:17.645 --> 01:25:19.247
for the first year
credit checks,

01:25:19.347 --> 01:25:21.082
you\'ll be graduated
at the semester.

01:25:21.182 --> 01:25:22.417
Woo woo!

01:25:22.517 --> 01:25:23.985
That\'d be awesome, huh?

01:25:24.085 --> 01:25:25.687
See this right here?

01:25:25.787 --> 01:25:30.825
This shows us what we already
knew, that you could do it.

01:25:30.925 --> 01:25:33.161
You just have to decide
to, which you did.

01:25:33.261 --> 01:25:35.230
Which, that\'s what we want, OK?

01:25:35.330 --> 01:25:36.564
I\'m proud of you.

01:25:36.664 --> 01:25:37.765
Nicely done.

01:25:37.866 --> 01:25:40.835
And I\'ll see you tomorrow
with your gift card, OK?

01:25:40.935 --> 01:25:44.005
[students chattering]

01:26:01.623 --> 01:26:02.357
MISS VILAND: Hi.

01:26:02.457 --> 01:26:04.092
Thank you for calling me back.

01:26:04.192 --> 01:26:05.226
I know.

01:26:05.326 --> 01:26:07.228
I was excited to have
him back, but he just

01:26:07.328 --> 01:26:09.097
has fallen right back
into the same patterns.

01:26:12.834 --> 01:26:14.736
So if you can talk
some sense into him

01:26:14.836 --> 01:26:17.171
and tell him to get productive
and do things, that\'s great.

01:26:17.272 --> 01:26:18.540
If not, I need someone
to come get him,

01:26:18.640 --> 01:26:20.942
because he just isn\'t doing
anything except being defiant.

01:26:28.116 --> 01:26:29.717
This is what he
wants to do all day.

01:26:29.817 --> 01:26:32.987
And when you ask him to do
anything, he throws a fit.

01:26:33.087 --> 01:26:36.157
Joseph, get up.

01:26:36.257 --> 01:26:38.927
He doesn\'t want to work.

01:26:39.027 --> 01:26:40.027
You know what?

01:26:40.094 --> 01:26:41.262
I don\'t know what
you\'re thinking, buddy,

01:26:41.362 --> 01:26:44.132
but whatever it is, it\'s
not working out for you.

01:26:44.232 --> 01:26:49.637
You\'ve lived on the streets,
you\'ve lived in shit holes.

01:26:49.737 --> 01:26:51.539
Get up, Joe.

01:26:51.639 --> 01:26:53.107
MALE STUDENT: Are we leaving?

01:26:53.207 --> 01:26:55.209
Get up, pull your pants up.

01:26:55.310 --> 01:26:57.011
Where\'s your jacket?

01:26:57.111 --> 01:26:57.845
He never had one...

01:26:57.946 --> 01:26:59.147
Yeah, he did.

01:26:59.247 --> 01:27:01.115
He has a black jacket
somewhere he left...

01:27:01.215 --> 01:27:02.517
Maybe he must have put
it in my office already.

01:27:02.617 --> 01:27:03.977
Must have put it
in before I talked

01:27:04.052 --> 01:27:10.158
to him... I hope that he\'ll
be... when he\'s ready to learn,

01:27:10.258 --> 01:27:11.492
we\'ll be here for him.

01:27:11.593 --> 01:27:13.833
If... and when he turns 18,
he decides he\'s dropping out,

01:27:13.895 --> 01:27:16.531
call me and then I\'ll classify
him as a drop out and fill his

01:27:16.631 --> 01:27:18.866
spot with somebody I hope
doesn\'t make that decision,

01:27:18.967 --> 01:27:19.701
but...

01:27:19.801 --> 01:27:21.402
But you know what?

01:27:21.502 --> 01:27:21.903
He has you.

01:27:22.003 --> 01:27:22.637
He has AJ.

01:27:22.737 --> 01:27:24.272
He has support.

01:27:24.372 --> 01:27:27.241
Everybody has a sad
story that brings them

01:27:27.342 --> 01:27:28.509
to right now and today.

01:27:28.610 --> 01:27:29.510
Yeah.

01:27:29.611 --> 01:27:30.612
It\'s what they\'re
gonna do with it.

01:27:30.712 --> 01:27:32.580
It\'s, they\'ll either
be a victim of it or...

01:27:32.680 --> 01:27:33.680
Yeah.

01:27:33.748 --> 01:27:34.415
I mean, that\'s what...
He\'s at the point

01:27:34.515 --> 01:27:35.783
now where either, choose.

01:27:35.883 --> 01:27:38.720
You\'re going to be a victim
or you\'re going to go forward.

01:27:38.820 --> 01:27:39.820
OK.

01:28:09.484 --> 01:28:10.385
So what\'s the plan?

01:28:10.485 --> 01:28:11.486
MALE STUDENT: I don\'t know.

01:28:11.586 --> 01:28:13.054
I\'ve been working
more lately though.

01:28:13.154 --> 01:28:15.590
Well, more is not quite
enough, I\'m sorry to say.

01:28:15.690 --> 01:28:20.495
Going from 10% up to
30% is not enough.

01:28:20.595 --> 01:28:21.875
MALE STUDENT: With
my attendance,

01:28:21.963 --> 01:28:23.531
I\'ve been doing good
with my attendance.

01:28:23.631 --> 01:28:24.132
Better.

01:28:24.232 --> 01:28:25.266
Better.

01:28:25.366 --> 01:28:26.167
MALE STUDENT: My only
problem is sleep though.

01:28:26.267 --> 01:28:27.547
Like, when I don\'t sleep good...

01:28:28.403 --> 01:28:28.870
MISS VILAND: But just a second.

01:28:28.970 --> 01:28:29.704
You know what?

01:28:29.804 --> 01:28:32.740
It\'s time to grow up, you know?

01:28:32.840 --> 01:28:33.441
Go.

01:28:33.541 --> 01:28:35.143
Use your time wisely.

01:28:35.243 --> 01:28:37.578
Give me your phone, Alexis.

01:28:37.679 --> 01:28:40.114
You and I had a talk
about this the other day.

01:28:40.214 --> 01:28:41.749
ALEXIS: Yeah, but I
shut the power off.

01:28:41.849 --> 01:28:42.383
I wasn\'t texting or anything.

01:28:42.483 --> 01:28:43.084
Doesn\'t matter.

01:28:43.184 --> 01:28:43.885
It\'s not your opinion.

01:28:43.985 --> 01:28:45.319
Hand me your phone, Alexis.

01:28:45.420 --> 01:28:46.487
What if I don\'t?

01:28:46.587 --> 01:28:47.947
MISS VILAND: Then
I\'ll suspend you.

01:28:48.022 --> 01:28:49.022
Then suspend me.

01:29:04.338 --> 01:29:06.240
MISS VILAND: On the way
home from the field trip

01:29:06.340 --> 01:29:08.476
we had a bus pull over
due to Brianna\'s yelling

01:29:08.576 --> 01:29:10.378
profanity and threatening
physical injury

01:29:10.478 --> 01:29:11.546
to another student.

01:29:11.646 --> 01:29:13.581
I was certain she
was going to hit me.

01:29:16.551 --> 01:29:18.653
Obviously I have to go
through with the expulsion.

01:29:18.753 --> 01:29:20.321
Listen, this process
is going to hurt me

01:29:20.421 --> 01:29:24.192
just as much as it hurts you
because your daughter is...

01:29:24.292 --> 01:29:29.297
Your daughter is
me 40 years ago.

01:29:29.397 --> 01:29:32.166
I do not want this to
be a roadblock for you.

01:29:32.266 --> 01:29:35.269
I do not want this
to set you back.

01:29:35.369 --> 01:29:38.306
We all cried a little
bit on Friday together,

01:29:38.406 --> 01:29:39.406
because we love you.

01:29:39.440 --> 01:29:42.443
We love you.

01:29:42.543 --> 01:29:45.780
And we all make mistakes,
and we learn from them,

01:29:45.880 --> 01:29:47.248
and we go forward.

01:31:36.924 --> 01:31:37.491
JENNIFER: Hello.

01:31:37.592 --> 01:31:38.426
MISS VILAND: Hi.

01:31:38.526 --> 01:31:40.461
JENNIFER: I was
going to ask you...

01:31:40.561 --> 01:31:42.561
I kind of want to say
something to them about my...

01:31:42.630 --> 01:31:43.870
MISS VILAND: That\'d be perfect.

01:31:43.931 --> 01:31:45.691
JENNIFER: How Black
Rock changed my little...

01:31:45.766 --> 01:31:46.367
MISS VILAND: That
would be great.

01:31:46.467 --> 01:31:47.535
That would be perfect.

01:31:47.635 --> 01:31:49.170
Well, I was just thinking
about it last night

01:31:49.270 --> 01:31:51.505
because Black Rock... it did
make a big difference to me

01:31:51.606 --> 01:31:53.274
and I want them to
know that the school is

01:31:53.374 --> 01:31:55.443
very important to the kids
that are at this school.

01:31:55.543 --> 01:31:56.944
MISS VILAND: That\'d
be really great.

01:31:57.044 --> 01:31:59.680
What you can do
is, right after you

01:31:59.780 --> 01:32:01.515
show all the senior
pictures you can say,

01:32:01.616 --> 01:32:03.417
and I\'d like to take a
minute personally to...

01:32:03.517 --> 01:32:04.218
JENNIFER: OK.

01:32:04.318 --> 01:32:05.353
That\'s exactly what I wrote.

01:32:05.453 --> 01:32:06.654
I\'m so proud of myself.

01:32:06.754 --> 01:32:07.788
MISS VILAND: Perfect.

01:32:07.889 --> 01:32:09.423
JENNIFER: Students drop
out for many reasons,

01:32:09.523 --> 01:32:13.394
but the number one reason is not
having a personal relationship

01:32:13.494 --> 01:32:18.532
with a caring adult. High school
graduates live longer, are

01:32:18.633 --> 01:32:20.334
less likely to be
teen parents, are

01:32:20.434 --> 01:32:23.437
more likely to raise healthier
and better educated children,

01:32:23.537 --> 01:32:27.241
are more likely to engage in
civic activities like voting

01:32:27.341 --> 01:32:29.510
and volunteering.

01:32:29.610 --> 01:32:31.946
Continuation schools
make a difference.

01:32:32.046 --> 01:32:34.749
We hope you will take a minute
to read the report being

01:32:34.849 --> 01:32:37.018
passed out to you.

01:32:37.118 --> 01:32:40.922
[applause]

01:32:44.358 --> 01:32:46.678
I would also like to add on a
personal note, just for me...

01:32:46.761 --> 01:32:48.229
Without Black
Rock, I don\'t think

01:32:48.329 --> 01:32:51.966
I would have had put the effort
into even trying to graduate,

01:32:52.066 --> 01:32:54.635
nor have the confidence to
be graduating a year early

01:32:54.735 --> 01:32:55.836
this year.

01:32:55.937 --> 01:32:57.405
So I would like to thank
all the staff and teachers

01:32:57.505 --> 01:33:01.042
at Black Rock, and thank you
guys for keeping Black Rock.

01:33:01.142 --> 01:33:05.313
[applause]

01:33:08.082 --> 01:33:09.483
MISS VILAND: I knew
you could do it.

01:33:09.583 --> 01:33:12.119
I wasn\'t worried.

01:33:12.219 --> 01:33:14.422
Pretty cool, huh?

01:33:14.522 --> 01:33:16.057
This is about you.

01:33:16.157 --> 01:33:18.826
Because, Lee, anything you
set your mind to, you will do.

01:33:22.396 --> 01:33:25.132
LEE: I got my 20 credits,
so I\'m going to be here

01:33:25.232 --> 01:33:27.835
next year to finish for good.

01:33:27.935 --> 01:33:29.136
I didn\'t believe in myself.

01:33:29.236 --> 01:33:31.706
I didn\'t think I could do
it, but Layla talked to me,

01:33:31.806 --> 01:33:33.674
gave me some hope.

01:33:33.774 --> 01:33:36.978
She told me that she knows I\'m
smart and putting myself down

01:33:37.078 --> 01:33:38.646
isn\'t going to help
me with my education

01:33:38.746 --> 01:33:40.114
and further me in life.

01:33:45.686 --> 01:33:46.721
MISS VILAND: All right.

01:33:46.821 --> 01:33:50.057
Let\'s check, make sure
I got everything here.

01:33:50.157 --> 01:33:53.527
[inaudible] OK.

01:33:56.497 --> 01:33:57.498
Are we missing something?

01:34:01.068 --> 01:34:02.937
Nope, we\'re good.

01:34:03.037 --> 01:34:04.438
You gave me a heart attack.

01:34:04.538 --> 01:34:07.908
MISS VILAND: You\'re
done, you\'re done.

01:34:08.009 --> 01:34:09.009
OK.

01:34:09.043 --> 01:34:11.879
So let\'s go to the
next step here, huh?

01:34:11.979 --> 01:34:15.850
And that is, checking
out of school.

01:34:15.950 --> 01:34:20.788
[applause and cheering]

01:34:29.330 --> 01:34:33.701
MISS VILAND: You still need 10
in English, 4 in government,

01:34:33.801 --> 01:34:35.236
5 in econ.

01:34:35.336 --> 01:34:39.707
So you still could make it this
year if you busted your ass.

01:34:39.807 --> 01:34:40.708
Haha.

01:34:40.808 --> 01:34:42.209
You\'re going to make it.

01:34:50.785 --> 01:34:55.156
[cheering and applause]

01:35:20.214 --> 01:35:22.616
FEMALE TEACHER: Did
you finish, baby?

01:35:22.716 --> 01:35:23.716
Yay.

01:35:31.826 --> 01:35:34.261
It\'s a very good thing.

01:35:34.361 --> 01:35:37.798
Oh, you\'re awesome.

01:35:37.898 --> 01:35:39.100
I am so happy.

01:35:39.200 --> 01:35:40.400
MISS VILAND: I\'m proud of you.

01:35:40.434 --> 01:35:43.104
JENNIFER: It\'s happy tears.

01:35:43.204 --> 01:35:44.505
I\'m so happy.

01:35:44.605 --> 01:35:45.605
I\'m happy for you.

01:36:02.690 --> 01:36:03.958
[guitar playing]

01:36:04.058 --> 01:36:05.860
MALE STUDENT: (SINGING) Round
and round, spinning my head

01:36:05.960 --> 01:36:07.061
\'til I hit the ground.

01:36:07.161 --> 01:36:10.531
Take a deep breath,
let\'s leave this town.

01:36:14.068 --> 01:36:15.970
Let\'s leave this fucking town.

01:36:25.179 --> 01:36:26.180
I don\'t know who you are.

01:36:26.280 --> 01:36:26.847
Hi.

01:36:26.947 --> 01:36:27.248
MALE STUDENT: Yeah.

01:36:27.348 --> 01:36:27.815
Hi.

01:36:27.915 --> 01:36:28.616
My name\'s Adam.

01:36:28.716 --> 01:36:29.116
Oh.

01:36:29.216 --> 01:36:30.117
Hi, Adam.

01:36:30.217 --> 01:36:32.086
Nice to meet you.

01:36:32.186 --> 01:36:34.221
MALE STUDENT: Um, I
was... I was wondering,

01:36:34.321 --> 01:36:36.157
do you accept 9th graders?

01:36:36.257 --> 01:36:37.758
MISS VILAND: Oh, no, honey.

01:36:37.858 --> 01:36:39.860
We only have 11th
and 12th graders.

01:36:39.960 --> 01:36:41.962
Because we have a waiting
list even for them.

01:36:42.062 --> 01:36:43.230
Oh.

01:36:43.330 --> 01:36:44.665
MISS VILAND: Where are you
going to school right now?

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Right now I\'m going
to Hope Academy,

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but I\'m trying to get out of
there because I need a more,

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like, structured
environment, you know, like...

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MISS VILAND: Right.

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Because, like, at
Hope I can just, like,

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I can pretty much just walk
out whenever I want, you know.

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MISS VILAND: Yeah.

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That wouldn\'t fly
here, would it?

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Yeah.

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Unfortunately... we used to take
10th, 11th, and 12th graders,

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but now we can only take
11th and 12th graders

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because we\'re so full, with
just 11th and 12th graders.

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All I can say is,
keep going to school.

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Keep earning credits.

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And when you get into the
11th grade, we can take you.

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OK?

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I\'m sorry.

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Is there a way I can get on the
waiting list so right when I...

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MISS VILAND: We\'ll
take your name, yes.

01:37:21.769 --> 01:37:22.603
Absolutely.

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We\'ll put it in
our book and then,

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the end of your 10th grade
year we\'ll give you a call.

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Thank you.

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OK?

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Thank you.

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You bet.

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Absolutely.

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I got to go meet the bus.

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It was nice meeting
you, and I admire you.

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You did a good job.

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Hi everyone!

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Welcome, welcome. \'Morning!

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