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Make way for the lady, man.
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- Hey, lady, watch it.
- How about that?
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- Try the other door, Teach.
- Hey, try the windows, Teach.
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- Maybe this door, Teach.
- Try "Open Sesame."
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- Hey, go ahead, Teach.
- Try everything.
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All right, how do we get in?
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Can't get in till somebody comes out.
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Yeah, like a toilet, baby.
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- Hey! The door.
- Yeah!
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New students report to 121,
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old students to 123,
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transfer students, 127.
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New students report to 121,
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old students to 123,
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transfer students, 127.
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New students report to 121,
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old students to 123,
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transfer students, 127.
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Disregard all bells.
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Disregard all bells.
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Keep all circulars in alphabetical order.
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Keep all directives in numerical order.
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File before 3:00.
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Delaney cards and absentee plans,
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teaching, students...
Program cards from yellow...
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From master program, card blue,
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- teachers program card...
- Excuse me. Morning.
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Morning, Miss Finch.
It asks here how many basketballs I need.
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- Do you have your key?
- Key.
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- What's your room number?
- 322.
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Keys, keys, pick up your keys.
Sign for your keys.
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Teachers must not punch each other in.
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Teachers must keep their letter boxes
empty at all times.
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All cases of assault and attempted assault
suffered by teachers
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in connection with their employment
must be reported at once.
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Disregard the bell.
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You're Miss Barrett?
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And I'm Ella Friedenberg,
Guidance Counselor.
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You'll receive a
directive on it, of course,
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but with new teachers
I like to warn them personally
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to watch for latent maladjustments
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and send them to me on alternate
Tuesdays for depth coverage.
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Teachers only.
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But I... I am a teacher.
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Miss Barrett, do you realize
you're going up the down staircase?
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I'm sorry, Dr. Bester...
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Dr. Bester!
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Dr. Bester,
what do I want with basketballs?
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Hey, that's the teach
that we saw this morning.
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Oh, that's right. Ain't she cute, man?
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She's gotta be my teacher.
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- Hope so, man.
- Please, she gotta be my teach.
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Shades up there.
Windows down four inches from the top.
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Mr. McHabe,
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I could only find one piece of chalk.
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- Our supplies are running low.
- On the first day?
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Rubber bands, desk blotters, board erasers
and paper clips are expected next week.
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We have blue pencils, no red.
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You mean that I can have basketballs
but no chalk?
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Well, what do you want
with basketballs, Miss Barrett?
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They asked me to fill out this requisition.
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Well, it was obviously meant
for the Phys. Ed. Teacher.
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Shades up there.
Windows down four inches from the top.
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Mr. McHabe...
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There he is.
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Good morning, Mr. Barringer.
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I'm Alice Blake.
I had you last term in English.
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You mean you were in my class.
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This is my friend, Carole Blanca.
She had you, too.
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I would have said
your name was Carmelita.
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I changed it over the summer.
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We wish to express our gratitude
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for the way you gave
so unstingily of yourself to us.
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Well, I'm glad I taught you
to express yourself so... So well.
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Mr. Barringer, I wanted
to be in your class,
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but they put me in Miss Barrett's.
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And I don't even know Miss Barrett,
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and I thought maybe I could switch.
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Why would you want to switch?
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Think of the poetic heritage
of the name "Barrett."
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Remember, Alice,
it was a Miss Barrett who wrote,
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"How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways."
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Now, someone once said
that first impressions...
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Please don't block the doorway.
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Please come in.
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Hey, Lou, no wonder, she's a dame.
I got a dame for homeroom.
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Why do I always get stuck with dames?
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You want I should slug him, Teach?
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Boys!
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Please sit down. Yes, it is.
Please, sit down. Sit.
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Take your seats, please. Everybody. Yes.
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I'm sorry. What?
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Would you please tell me
what room this is?
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Yes. This is room 322. My name
is on the blackboard. Miss Barrett.
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I will have you in homeroom all term,
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and I hope to see some of you
in my English class.
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- English.
- Now, someone once said
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that first impressions are very important.
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Miss Barrett, you want me to
get the stuff from your mailbox?
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Yes, all right. That would be nice.
Thank you very much.
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- Someone once said that first...
- Can I fetch a drink of water?
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- Are you a regular or a substitute?
- Is this 322?
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Yes. You're late.
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I'm not late. I'm absent.
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Class, please.
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- You are?
- I was absent all last term.
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- Well... Why don't you sit down?
- I can't sit down.
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I'm dropping out.
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You're supposed to sign
my book clearance from last term.
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Hey, there's glass all over my desk
from this broken window.
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I know. Just don't touch the broken glass,
and don't touch the broken window.
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It should be reported to the janitor.
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Custodian! Custodian.
This is a very classy school.
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- I'll go. Let me go.
- Does anybody know where the janitor is?
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I'll go, Teach.
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- I'm going.
- Let me go, man.
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Class, please.
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I'm afraid there won't be time
for the discussion that I had planned
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on first impressions.
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I am passing out...
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- She's passing out!
- Give her air.
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Fresh air.
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I am passing out Delaney cards,
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and I would like you to fill them out
as quickly as possible
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while I take attendance.
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- Sorry I'm late. I was in the Late Room.
- What is the Late Room?
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The Late Room. Where they make you sit
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to make up for your latenesses
when you're late.
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Otherwise I would have been on time.
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For parents' name, can I use my aunt?
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Yes, if you...
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Yes, of course you may.
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- Amdur, Janet.
- Present.
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- You, young man, why are you late?
- I'm not even here.
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I'm with Mr. Loomis.
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My uncle's in this class,
and he forgot his lunch.
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- Hey, Tony! Catch.
- Please don't throw...
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- Are you hurt?
- Just my head.
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Hey, you gotta
make out an accident report,
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three copies and send it in to the nurse.
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Perhaps... Perhaps you had
better go to the nurse
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and ask for accident report blanks.
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- Apolikanos, Michael.
- Yeah.
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- Blake, Alice.
- I'm present, Miss Barrett.
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Janitor says nobody's down there.
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How can he say there's no one down there
when he's down there?
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Yes? Can I help you?
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The stuff from your letter-box.
You sent me.
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Yes, but I took it all out
when I punched in...
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You're supposed to read this to the class.
It's from the library.
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Thank you. You may sit down now.
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"Library. Attention class.
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- "The school library is your library..."
- You're supposed to read this first.
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- Change of assembly schedule.
- Thank you.
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"Change in assembly schedule.
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"All X-2 sections
are to report to assembly
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"the second half of the second period.
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"Tomorrow, all Y-2..." Class, please.
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Class, "Tomorrow all Y-two sections
will follow today's program"
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"for X-two sections,
while all X-two sections"
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"will follow today's program
for Y-two sections."
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Do we go to assembly today?
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Blanca, Carmelita.
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That's Carole.
I changed it over the summer.
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Miss Barrett, Miss Barrett, you forgot
to appoint an early dismissal monitor.
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All right, all right.
I appoint you early dismissal monitor.
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- Class dismissed!
- Class, we have to finish.
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Class, I want you all back in your seats.
Class, please.
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Sit down. Sit down. We have to finish.
Class, please, sit down.
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- Class...
- Disregard all bells.
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Repeat. Disregard all bells.
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This boy's late and on probation.
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Where's your class, Miss Barrett?
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I'm afraid that they have all gone.
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You're off to a good start.
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Now, listen, since I'm only
readmitting you on probation,
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I guess you know
that I know that you're no prize.
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One false step... Suspension.
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Your name, please?
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Won't you tell me your name?
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You've got it there.
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There are 40 pupils in my homeroom.
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Call the roll.
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All right.
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Let's see, where did I leave off?
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Davidson?
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Dubinski, Ehrlick, Gloria.
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Well, surely you're not
Gloria Ehrlick, are you?
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Escalera? Esposite? Essner?
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Really, it would be so much simpler
if you would just tell me your name.
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Evans?
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- Farber, Farreli, Ferone...
- Present.
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Joseph Ferone. Do they call you Joe?
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I see you're to be
in my English class as well.
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Tell me, do you like English?
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Well.
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I think there's time for you
to fill out a Delaney card now.
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If you will just fill in
the blanks, please.
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I don't know why
they call it a Delaney card.
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Maybe because a man named Delaney
thought it up.
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You can just take any seat.
Do you have a pencil?
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Get out of here. I want to sit down.
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You hear me? I ain't playing with you.
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Come on, man. Get out of here.
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I'm Beatrice Schacter.
We're in the same department.
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How do you do?
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- Hello there, how are you?
- I'm fine, thank you.
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I'm Henrietta Pastorfield. Thanks.
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How did you make out
with the program list?
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I got through it.
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I got through 16 of the 20.
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And I've been here 16 years.
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Four years more
and I expect to have a perfect record.
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If I last.
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I've only got 12 this year.
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Eight for me.
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As usual, the white kids don't trust me.
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Negro kids think
I've sold out to the whites.
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I've managed 18.
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Eleven.
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Two and a half.
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I had planned a little talk
on first impressions,
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and from that
I would make a good case for diction,
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correct usage and self expression
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and from that it would just be one step
to the limitless realm of creativity.
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And then to communication
between student and teacher.
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And finally, mutual respect and even love.
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I like the part about limitless realm.
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Kid them along, make it a game.
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I have a new one this year.
Hospital spelling.
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Misspelled words are the patients
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and the kids are the doctors
and the nurses.
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Why aren't you eating your lunch?
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Well, I just can't seem to face
mashed potatoes at 10:17 in the morning.
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In future, try Jell-O.
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It gives you energy,
but it doesn't require an appetite.
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Ever tried Punctuation Sex, Henrietta?
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Hyphens are kisses,
commas are "maybe's"
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and a period is a definite "no."
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And then, of course,
there's the limitless realm
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of semicolons and apostrophes.
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I shudder to think
what an exclamation point might mean.
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I don't care. It keeps them off the
streets, and you give them a bit of fun
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and you've earned your keep.
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Have you met Paul Barringer?
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The glamour boy
of the English Department.
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Unpublished writer.
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Dangerous. You're on your own.
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Your education
has been planned and geared
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to arm you and prepare you
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to function as mature
and thinking citizens,
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capable of shouldering
the burdens and responsibilities
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which a thriving democracy imposes.
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It is through you
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and others like you...
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We have no doubt
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that our aims and efforts in this direction
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will bear fruit
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and achieve the goals and objectives
set forth,
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for in the miniature democracy
of our school,
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you are proving yourselves
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worthy and deserving of our trust
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and expectations.
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Any announcements, Mr. McHabe?
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00:22:27,570 --> 00:22:31,506
A blue Pontiac parked
in front of the school has been overturned.
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00:22:32,141 --> 00:22:34,666
Anybody having knowledge
of the perpetrators,
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please report to me
directly after assembly.
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00:24:03,032 --> 00:24:04,032
Hey!
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Silence while exiting!
Silence while exiting!
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00:24:19,182 --> 00:24:21,343
Well, she...
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00:24:22,652 --> 00:24:27,112
Mr. Edmund Green
comes to our Science Department
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after 10 years at South Park High School,
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00:24:30,860 --> 00:24:33,886
extensive experience in the so-called
problem-area schools
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00:24:33,963 --> 00:24:35,658
such as Calvin Coolidge,
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00:24:36,065 --> 00:24:39,330
and an impressive war record
in the military police.
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00:24:40,303 --> 00:24:41,361
He could use that.
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00:24:41,437 --> 00:24:44,235
I'm sure he'll be a valuable addition
to our faculty.
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- Yeah.
- Mr. Green.
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Miss Sylvia Barrett
comes to our English Department
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with a B.A. From Lyons Hall
and an M.A. From Hutchins.
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00:25:04,527 --> 00:25:06,825
She's to be commended for her courage.
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Miss Barrett.
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00:25:12,034 --> 00:25:13,558
Thank you. I...
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00:25:14,003 --> 00:25:17,404
I can't say how happy I am to be here.
Thank you.
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00:25:21,344 --> 00:25:23,574
- The first item on the agenda...
- Dr. Bester.
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00:25:24,447 --> 00:25:30,147
Dr. Bester, there were certain
urgent problems left over from last term.
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00:25:30,386 --> 00:25:34,083
Agreed. The teaching load,
facilities, drop-outs,
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00:25:34,390 --> 00:25:36,858
and the new building, Dr. Bester.
289
00:25:37,159 --> 00:25:39,354
What about the new building?
290
00:25:39,562 --> 00:25:42,258
Well, I brought along
all the blueprints again.
291
00:25:43,232 --> 00:25:45,723
- To give us heart.
- We're tired of blueprints.
292
00:25:45,801 --> 00:25:48,269
It's been six years
now. We're losing heart.
293
00:25:48,337 --> 00:25:49,395
Hear, hear!
294
00:25:49,472 --> 00:25:51,269
I didn't see who said that.
295
00:25:52,241 --> 00:25:53,970
- Oh, yes, Miss Pastorfield.
- Yeah.
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00:25:54,477 --> 00:25:56,388
Well, if you'll stop by
at the end of this meeting,
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I'll gladly accept your
check for $7,500,000.
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00:26:02,451 --> 00:26:05,147
Miss Gordon and Mr. Osborne
have the floor.
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00:26:05,921 --> 00:26:07,354
Who'll speak first?
300
00:26:07,423 --> 00:26:11,257
Mr. Osborne and I, being floaters,
share Room 441.
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00:26:11,494 --> 00:26:14,861
Mr. Osborne insists on putting his things
in the left-hand drawer of the desk,
302
00:26:14,930 --> 00:26:17,342
- which is my drawer and I...
- I beg to differ with Miss Gordon.
303
00:26:17,366 --> 00:26:19,266
The left-hand desk drawer is my drawer.
304
00:26:19,335 --> 00:26:21,326
- Since when?
- Since four years ago!
305
00:26:21,404 --> 00:26:24,931
All right. All right. May I suggest
that the Grievance Committee
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00:26:25,007 --> 00:26:28,238
on Rotation of Teachers
to More Equitable Room Assignments
307
00:26:28,311 --> 00:26:30,779
appoint a sub-committee
to look into the matter.
308
00:26:30,846 --> 00:26:34,407
- You're next on the agenda, Mrs. Wolf.
- Thank you.
309
00:26:35,117 --> 00:26:37,585
When returning books to the library,
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00:26:37,753 --> 00:26:41,018
students must put them back
on the shelf straight.
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00:26:41,090 --> 00:26:44,719
I want those books in their right places
with their edges even.
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00:26:44,794 --> 00:26:47,239
- I think it's very important...
- Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Wolf.
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00:26:47,263 --> 00:26:50,391
Dr. Bester, now that
reading from the Bible
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00:26:50,466 --> 00:26:52,434
has been declared unconstitutional,
315
00:26:52,501 --> 00:26:55,368
is there any objection
to a moment of silent prayer?
316
00:26:55,438 --> 00:26:57,463
It's all right, I understand,
317
00:26:58,107 --> 00:27:00,337
if the word "prayer" is not used
318
00:27:00,743 --> 00:27:02,540
and if the lips don't move.
319
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,614
Dr. Bester, by law a faculty conference
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00:27:06,682 --> 00:27:09,207
only has to last 60 minutes
which are now up.
321
00:27:09,285 --> 00:27:11,219
Now, I suggest
in view of the subway rush...
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00:27:11,287 --> 00:27:13,812
Yes. I'm afraid a discussion
of cafeteria conditions
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00:27:13,889 --> 00:27:16,084
will have to be jettisoned until next week.
324
00:27:16,158 --> 00:27:18,038
- Will someone move for adjournment?
- So moved.
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00:27:18,094 --> 00:27:19,322
Meeting is adjourned.
326
00:28:04,507 --> 00:28:06,065
Morning, Miss Finch.
327
00:28:06,342 --> 00:28:08,503
Here are my daily attendance sheets,
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00:28:08,644 --> 00:28:13,013
my absentee cards,
my transcripts for transfers,
329
00:28:13,449 --> 00:28:17,351
my transportation cards,
and my H-level report.
330
00:29:47,009 --> 00:29:49,321
Since we are unable to begin the term
with the assigned books,
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00:29:49,345 --> 00:29:53,543
I thought we might spend this first class
in an open discussion about books.
332
00:29:53,916 --> 00:29:56,384
Why we read them
and what they mean to us.
333
00:30:00,489 --> 00:30:01,854
Herbert Henry.
334
00:30:03,058 --> 00:30:05,117
I didn't know we was gonna have a quiz.
335
00:30:05,194 --> 00:30:07,958
- I didn't study for it.
- Well, this is not a quiz.
336
00:30:08,030 --> 00:30:10,430
Well, whatever it is, I didn't study up.
337
00:30:10,499 --> 00:30:14,094
Well, I'm not asking you to study up,
I'm asking you to think.
338
00:30:14,169 --> 00:30:15,898
- Miss Barrett.
- Yes. Your name, please.
339
00:30:15,971 --> 00:30:18,201
Harry A. Kagan,
newly-nominated candidate
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00:30:18,274 --> 00:30:20,218
- for President of General Organization.
- Sit down.
341
00:30:20,242 --> 00:30:22,767
In answer to your
very interesting question,
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00:30:22,945 --> 00:30:26,847
last term, for example,
we studied myths and their meanings
343
00:30:27,082 --> 00:30:29,482
to comprehend in a superb fashion
344
00:30:29,818 --> 00:30:33,413
the origins of many of the idiosyncrasies
of our present language.
345
00:30:33,556 --> 00:30:36,957
Throughout the decades, constant
references to mythological occurrences
346
00:30:37,026 --> 00:30:40,689
have spawned such sparkling gems
as "By Jove" and "Jumping Jupiter."
347
00:30:40,763 --> 00:30:43,561
- Jumping Jupiter.
- Settle down. Thank you, Harry.
348
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,000
You're doing a very good job, Miss Barrett.
Keep it up.
349
00:30:47,269 --> 00:30:48,531
Class, please.
350
00:30:50,039 --> 00:30:52,098
Jose Rodriguez.
351
00:30:58,814 --> 00:31:00,076
Where is Jose?
352
00:31:04,687 --> 00:31:07,815
Do you have anything
you want to say to the class, Jose?
353
00:31:09,792 --> 00:31:11,225
- Miss Barrett! Miss Barrett!
- Yes.
354
00:31:11,293 --> 00:31:13,955
I think Alice Blake
has the one true answer.
355
00:31:15,230 --> 00:31:17,221
Well, will you tell the class, Alice?
356
00:31:21,103 --> 00:31:24,766
Because just about all books
are based on love, that's why.
357
00:31:26,642 --> 00:31:29,440
All right, class, please. Class.
358
00:31:31,981 --> 00:31:34,176
Is that the only reason that we read?
359
00:31:36,318 --> 00:31:38,752
For instance, what about this? Algebra.
360
00:31:39,922 --> 00:31:41,651
There is no love in that.
361
00:31:43,759 --> 00:31:44,953
Well, Alice?
362
00:31:45,227 --> 00:31:47,218
You're wearing contact lenses?
363
00:31:49,965 --> 00:31:52,433
Suppose we turn
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00:31:53,068 --> 00:31:55,536
to one of our country's most famous poets
365
00:31:55,604 --> 00:31:59,665
and see how she expresses herself
about books.
366
00:32:06,148 --> 00:32:07,740
Emily.
367
00:32:10,653 --> 00:32:12,052
Dickinson,
368
00:32:14,423 --> 00:32:15,788
1830,
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00:32:16,792 --> 00:32:18,885
1886.
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00:32:18,961 --> 00:32:22,795
- Right here.
- All right. That's it. Please!
371
00:32:23,198 --> 00:32:26,292
In eight short lines she sums up
all the beauty
372
00:32:26,368 --> 00:32:29,531
and adventure that can be found
in reading books,
373
00:32:30,806 --> 00:32:33,172
"to take us lands away."
374
00:32:33,676 --> 00:32:37,737
"This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toil."
375
00:32:38,414 --> 00:32:41,212
Now, do you begin to see
the trend of her thoughts?
376
00:32:41,283 --> 00:32:42,682
Yeah. Yeah.
377
00:32:42,751 --> 00:32:46,653
All right.
Let's examine the poem line by line.
378
00:32:48,257 --> 00:32:49,884
It begins,
379
00:32:51,026 --> 00:32:57,454
"There is no frigate..."
380
00:33:07,810 --> 00:33:10,711
Class. Class! Please.
381
00:33:22,558 --> 00:33:26,050
Next time try,
"There is no steamship like a book."
382
00:33:27,362 --> 00:33:29,474
I guess everybody's heard
about that by now, haven't they?
383
00:33:29,498 --> 00:33:34,128
Sorry, just trying to,
in quotes, "Cheer up Miss Barrett."
384
00:33:34,203 --> 00:33:35,534
Thank you.
385
00:33:37,372 --> 00:33:40,068
You know, if you take
your first failure so badly,
386
00:33:40,142 --> 00:33:42,153
just think what your hundredth
is going to do to you.
387
00:33:42,177 --> 00:33:45,374
I came here to teach, or I thought I did.
388
00:33:45,447 --> 00:33:48,814
I thought that was what I spent
the last six years preparing for.
389
00:33:48,884 --> 00:33:52,615
Back home,
I used to like to stay after school.
390
00:33:53,789 --> 00:33:56,656
That teacher up there
was giving me something.
391
00:33:57,192 --> 00:34:02,323
Sharing something
she had learned, felt. Teaching.
392
00:34:04,233 --> 00:34:07,964
And what's the first thing I find
when I come to a school of my own?
393
00:34:08,036 --> 00:34:10,266
There is no time for teaching.
394
00:34:11,273 --> 00:34:17,143
There's only time for memos,
directives, circulars,
395
00:34:17,713 --> 00:34:21,706
letters, notices, forms, records, blanks.
396
00:34:21,917 --> 00:34:25,114
And keys. Look what they've given me.
397
00:34:27,089 --> 00:34:33,221
Room key, lavatory key, locker key.
398
00:34:38,567 --> 00:34:39,966
Book room.
399
00:34:41,069 --> 00:34:44,800
Well, at least there are such things,
but this.
400
00:34:46,441 --> 00:34:50,172
This one is for my desk drawer,
and there is no desk drawer.
401
00:34:51,547 --> 00:34:54,983
You know, I bet you did
you master's essay on Chaucer.
402
00:34:57,886 --> 00:34:59,183
How did you guess?
403
00:34:59,254 --> 00:35:05,193
You and the Clerk of Oxenford,
"Gladly would he learn and gladly teach."
404
00:35:08,430 --> 00:35:13,891
When I finally get the chance,
my first few precious minutes
405
00:35:15,604 --> 00:35:19,335
to talk to them about something
I want them to understand,
406
00:35:19,408 --> 00:35:22,571
and I find I am some kind of an enemy.
407
00:35:22,978 --> 00:35:26,038
The butt of some enormous joke.
408
00:35:26,548 --> 00:35:28,846
The ammunition that they have.
409
00:35:29,918 --> 00:35:33,376
In my first English class, many years ago,
I quoted from Channing,
410
00:35:33,455 --> 00:35:38,154
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy
intercourse with superior minds."
411
00:35:42,664 --> 00:35:44,564
What kind of thing do you write?
412
00:35:44,633 --> 00:35:46,965
Well, I've just finished the first chapter
of a novel
413
00:35:47,035 --> 00:35:51,699
about a nuclear physicist marooned
on a peninsula, Kamchatka.
414
00:35:53,075 --> 00:35:55,168
That's a far cry from Calvin Coolidge.
415
00:35:55,244 --> 00:35:57,439
I know, a far, far cry.
416
00:35:58,513 --> 00:36:00,708
There's no keys in Kamchatka.
417
00:36:00,983 --> 00:36:06,580
No lockers. No book rooms
and probably no lavatories.
418
00:36:08,490 --> 00:36:10,720
Well, but you and I are here.
419
00:36:10,826 --> 00:36:13,886
Yeah, and there'll come a time
when you'll need a drink
420
00:36:13,962 --> 00:36:17,125
for more cheering up.
421
00:36:17,466 --> 00:36:19,457
Or dinner, sometime?
422
00:36:19,968 --> 00:36:22,061
All right. I would like that.
423
00:36:22,137 --> 00:36:23,331
Good.
424
00:36:25,407 --> 00:36:27,705
Hello, Paul. Hello, Sylvia.
425
00:36:34,850 --> 00:36:37,341
Miss Barrett, step in here, please.
426
00:36:38,620 --> 00:36:40,815
You wait. I'll see you next.
427
00:36:43,926 --> 00:36:45,566
Was this boy in your English class today?
428
00:36:45,594 --> 00:36:47,338
I don't know.
I would have to check my attendance...
429
00:36:47,362 --> 00:36:49,023
Don't bother. He wasn't.
430
00:36:49,097 --> 00:36:51,793
During that period
he was found loitering near 408
431
00:36:51,867 --> 00:36:53,630
where a wallet has been reported missing.
432
00:36:53,702 --> 00:36:56,227
You should have sent in
a cutting slip at once.
433
00:36:56,305 --> 00:36:59,001
Well, there wasn't time.
Mrs. Wolf sent for the library blacklist
434
00:36:59,074 --> 00:37:01,338
and the nurse sent
for the dental blacklist...
435
00:37:01,410 --> 00:37:04,106
Has he given you any trouble
of any other kind?
436
00:37:04,179 --> 00:37:05,690
I don't know what you mean by trouble.
437
00:37:05,714 --> 00:37:08,615
- Trouble. Foul language. Violence.
- No, sir.
438
00:37:09,718 --> 00:37:11,618
Don't be scared of him, Miss Barrett.
439
00:37:11,853 --> 00:37:13,373
I'm just trying to stick to the truth.
440
00:37:13,422 --> 00:37:16,983
There has been no violence
and no foul language.
441
00:37:17,326 --> 00:37:20,489
I hope you haven't got any ideas
about communicating with him,
442
00:37:20,562 --> 00:37:23,053
or understanding him,
or getting through to him.
443
00:37:23,131 --> 00:37:25,099
Did he steal the wallet?
444
00:37:25,267 --> 00:37:26,928
You can go.
445
00:37:34,409 --> 00:37:36,741
Then he didn't steal the wallet.
446
00:37:36,812 --> 00:37:40,475
It has also come to my attention
that you neglected to fill out form B-221.
447
00:37:40,549 --> 00:37:42,360
Accident report
of a fall incurred by a student
448
00:37:42,384 --> 00:37:45,444
in your home room yesterday,
and you neglected to turn in a report
449
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:49,183
on the physical condition of your room
and a summary of your pupil load.
450
00:37:49,257 --> 00:37:52,385
My pupil load is 44 and two-fifths.
451
00:37:52,461 --> 00:37:54,486
Three-fifths students per class.
452
00:37:54,563 --> 00:37:57,691
I believe the directive
says it should be 33, and let me...
453
00:37:57,766 --> 00:38:01,998
Let me see, I just couldn't seem to find
any accidents forms B-221.
454
00:38:02,070 --> 00:38:04,800
I have a broken window
in the back of my classroom,
455
00:38:04,873 --> 00:38:07,603
and I need two more chairs. Three.
456
00:38:07,676 --> 00:38:10,736
And the custodian simply answers,
"There is no one down here."
457
00:38:10,812 --> 00:38:13,610
Well, my pupil load, Miss Barrett,
is 3000 students,
458
00:38:13,682 --> 00:38:15,809
6000 parents, 150 teachers,
459
00:38:15,884 --> 00:38:17,943
25 members of the building staff.
460
00:38:18,020 --> 00:38:20,011
1104, please.
461
00:38:20,188 --> 00:38:22,850
An upset neighborhood,
an angry police department
462
00:38:22,924 --> 00:38:25,392
and the entire board of education.
463
00:38:26,094 --> 00:38:28,927
- Let it be a challenge to you, huh?
- Thank you.
464
00:38:29,765 --> 00:38:32,131
1104. Four. Yeah.
465
00:38:58,427 --> 00:39:01,362
Hey, Teach. Hey.
466
00:39:12,607 --> 00:39:13,631
Come on, lady.
467
00:39:13,708 --> 00:39:15,403
- I like you.
- Yeah.
468
00:39:21,516 --> 00:39:24,076
Don't walk this block alone, Teach.
469
00:39:38,166 --> 00:39:42,330
Will the person or persons
who took my desk blotter please return it?
470
00:39:42,404 --> 00:39:44,702
There will be no questions asked.
471
00:39:44,773 --> 00:39:47,207
I just want my desk blotter back.
472
00:39:48,343 --> 00:39:53,246
Now, for our first oral book report
of the term,
473
00:39:53,515 --> 00:39:58,214
we will begin with Danny, Danny Harrigan.
474
00:39:59,554 --> 00:40:01,522
I'm not prepared, Miss Barrett.
475
00:40:01,590 --> 00:40:04,855
Why aren't you prepared, Danny?
What's your excuse?
476
00:40:14,669 --> 00:40:16,500
I had to get married.
477
00:40:17,405 --> 00:40:21,000
See, I got this girl in trouble,
and we're both Catholics.
478
00:40:21,076 --> 00:40:24,068
- The things is, I didn't even like her.
- Well, I...
479
00:40:24,146 --> 00:40:26,307
I accept your excuse, Danny.
480
00:40:26,681 --> 00:40:29,293
So you see, I didn't have very much time
to read any of those books.
481
00:40:29,317 --> 00:40:32,184
Well, will you please return to your seat?
482
00:40:36,391 --> 00:40:39,224
Who did prepare a book report?
483
00:40:40,228 --> 00:40:42,321
Lou Martin to your rescue.
484
00:40:44,533 --> 00:40:48,469
Linda, Linda, Linda.
Do you have a late pass?
485
00:40:48,537 --> 00:40:49,936
Oh, yeah.
486
00:40:50,872 --> 00:40:53,306
What's the bruise over your eye?
487
00:40:53,375 --> 00:40:56,208
Just received it this morning.
That's why I'm late.
488
00:40:56,278 --> 00:41:00,146
Well, will you go directly to the nurse
and have her treat it?
489
00:41:00,215 --> 00:41:03,776
Lou, you can begin your report
while I make out the pass.
490
00:41:04,019 --> 00:41:06,954
- My book is...
- The book you read.
491
00:41:07,756 --> 00:41:11,522
Yeah. The title is called Macbeth,
by Shakespeare.
492
00:41:11,593 --> 00:41:14,221
- The title is.
- Macbeth.
493
00:41:14,496 --> 00:41:17,988
Isn't Macbeth required reading
for last English term?
494
00:41:18,366 --> 00:41:21,358
- I ain't never read it before.
- I've never read it.
495
00:41:21,436 --> 00:41:25,202
Me neither.
In this book, the author depicts...
496
00:41:25,273 --> 00:41:26,365
Depicts.
497
00:41:26,441 --> 00:41:28,568
- Depicts how this guy, he wants to...
- Who?
498
00:41:28,643 --> 00:41:29,871
Him.
499
00:41:29,945 --> 00:41:31,469
- He.
- Yeah.
500
00:41:31,546 --> 00:41:34,777
All right, Lou,
what is the theme of Macbeth?
501
00:41:34,849 --> 00:41:37,511
Well, the author narrates this murder.
502
00:41:38,820 --> 00:41:42,813
Now, Lou, we don't need you
to show us how. All right, Lou.
503
00:41:44,993 --> 00:41:48,394
Lou. All right, class.
504
00:41:48,830 --> 00:41:53,460
The theme of Macbeth is that too much
ambition can become ruthless ambition
505
00:41:53,568 --> 00:41:55,695
and end up in disaster.
506
00:41:56,304 --> 00:41:58,397
That's what words are for.
507
00:41:59,074 --> 00:42:00,507
To be used.
508
00:42:01,876 --> 00:42:03,901
What does ruthless mean?
509
00:42:06,414 --> 00:42:07,414
Joe?
510
00:42:11,386 --> 00:42:12,386
Eddie.
511
00:42:13,188 --> 00:42:14,280
Steps all over.
512
00:42:14,356 --> 00:42:15,584
Use it in a sentence.
513
00:42:15,657 --> 00:42:17,716
Steps all over like white people.
514
00:42:17,792 --> 00:42:19,919
I know because I'm colored.
515
00:42:22,163 --> 00:42:24,188
- Rusty.
- Mrs. Macbeth nudges them.
516
00:42:24,699 --> 00:42:26,792
- You mean, "Nudges."
- "Nudges."
517
00:42:26,868 --> 00:42:29,132
Being a female, she spurns him on.
518
00:42:29,304 --> 00:42:30,396
Spurs.
519
00:42:30,572 --> 00:42:32,870
He wouldn't have done it,
except she spurned him on.
520
00:42:32,941 --> 00:42:35,136
- Then she's the ruthless one.
- Yeah.
521
00:42:37,879 --> 00:42:39,574
Alice.
522
00:42:39,648 --> 00:42:41,946
I think everyone has missed
the whole point.
523
00:42:42,117 --> 00:42:43,914
It's a play about love.
524
00:42:43,985 --> 00:42:47,978
Mr. Macbeth loves Mrs. Macbeth so much
that he'll do anything to please her,
525
00:42:48,323 --> 00:42:49,950
even kill.
526
00:42:51,293 --> 00:42:52,293
Jerry.
527
00:42:53,295 --> 00:42:56,287
Can't some people love and hate
at the same time, Miss Barrett?
528
00:42:56,364 --> 00:42:59,527
Aside from ambition, isn't that
how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
529
00:42:59,601 --> 00:43:01,831
destroyed themselves and each other?
530
00:43:09,544 --> 00:43:11,512
Jerry.
531
00:43:11,646 --> 00:43:13,637
That was a very interesting point
you made,
532
00:43:13,715 --> 00:43:16,240
and we'll talk more about it next time.
533
00:43:20,055 --> 00:43:23,718
You whitey-loving plow boy.
534
00:43:36,638 --> 00:43:39,072
Linda, Linda.
535
00:43:39,441 --> 00:43:41,909
Did Miss... Did Miss Eagen
put something on that bruise?
536
00:43:41,976 --> 00:43:43,466
Oh, no, she gave me a cup of tea.
537
00:43:43,545 --> 00:43:44,671
Is that all?
538
00:43:44,746 --> 00:43:46,475
I think she uses used tea bags.
539
00:43:46,648 --> 00:43:48,326
Well, come with me.
I will... I'll talk to her.
540
00:43:48,350 --> 00:43:50,716
And it's a very bad bruise.
541
00:43:50,785 --> 00:43:53,083
Linda has a rough time with her father.
542
00:43:53,288 --> 00:43:56,348
Well, what good will tea do? Why tea?
543
00:43:56,524 --> 00:43:57,524
Read that.
544
00:44:00,228 --> 00:44:02,753
"The school nurse
may not touch wounds"
545
00:44:02,831 --> 00:44:06,494
"give medication, remove foreign
particles from the eye..."
546
00:44:07,635 --> 00:44:09,660
Can't you talk to somebody?
547
00:44:09,738 --> 00:44:10,898
Like who?
548
00:44:11,406 --> 00:44:15,604
Dr. Bester, the Welfare Administration,
social agencies, parents,
549
00:44:15,677 --> 00:44:17,406
I don't know.
550
00:44:17,479 --> 00:44:19,276
Oh, I'll do that
551
00:44:19,347 --> 00:44:21,178
I'll just do that.
552
00:44:21,483 --> 00:44:23,212
While you're here, Miss Barrett,
553
00:44:23,752 --> 00:44:25,117
it's come to my attention
554
00:44:25,186 --> 00:44:28,383
that there are matters of form
which you've neglected to fill out.
555
00:44:28,456 --> 00:44:32,187
Now, students
delinquent in obtaining gym suits
556
00:44:32,327 --> 00:44:34,761
should be alphabetized
and sent to me at once.
557
00:44:34,896 --> 00:44:37,387
And please, above all,
558
00:44:37,465 --> 00:44:40,298
discourage excessive dieting
in your home room.
559
00:44:41,302 --> 00:44:44,237
All right, I'll... I'll remember that.
560
00:44:45,106 --> 00:44:47,267
Gym suits and excessive dieting.
561
00:44:47,342 --> 00:44:50,436
I will remember that. Thank you.
562
00:44:52,547 --> 00:44:54,447
I give them tea.
563
00:44:54,516 --> 00:44:56,848
At least that's something.
564
00:44:58,553 --> 00:44:59,553
Linda.
565
00:44:59,821 --> 00:45:02,255
Linda, you can go on to class now.
566
00:45:02,323 --> 00:45:04,723
- You can't still see it, can you?
- No.
567
00:45:05,693 --> 00:45:06,990
So long as you can't see it.
568
00:45:07,061 --> 00:45:08,061
Linda.
569
00:45:11,900 --> 00:45:14,391
Is there anything that I can do for you?
570
00:45:14,869 --> 00:45:18,100
Oh, yeah, you could get us dancing
in the cafeteria.
571
00:45:18,506 --> 00:45:21,669
Other schools do it and they put on things.
572
00:45:21,743 --> 00:45:23,870
Why not? You only live once.
573
00:45:44,599 --> 00:45:46,089
Miss Friedenberg.
574
00:45:47,035 --> 00:45:48,502
Miss Barrett.
575
00:45:48,570 --> 00:45:53,064
I would like to have you tell me all you
can about Linda Rosen and Lou Martin,
576
00:45:53,141 --> 00:45:55,735
Eddie Williams, Rusty O'Brien
and Joe Ferone.
577
00:45:55,810 --> 00:45:57,277
I need some ammunition.
578
00:45:57,345 --> 00:45:59,813
Sit down, Miss Barrett.
It's a wise teacher who teaches
579
00:45:59,881 --> 00:46:02,111
not just the subject but the whole pupil.
580
00:46:02,183 --> 00:46:04,378
Well, right now,
I just need some ammunition.
581
00:46:04,652 --> 00:46:07,553
Now, first let me explain
my counseling system.
582
00:46:09,057 --> 00:46:11,617
These cabinets contain the PRCs.
583
00:46:11,693 --> 00:46:16,392
The PRC is, of course, the permanent
record card kept for each student.
584
00:46:16,764 --> 00:46:19,961
Now in the PRC is the PPP.
585
00:46:20,034 --> 00:46:22,229
It almost sings, doesn't it?
586
00:46:22,303 --> 00:46:25,830
The PPP is the pupil personality profile.
587
00:46:25,974 --> 00:46:30,104
I invented it myself, and I write it up
from my interviews in depth.
588
00:46:30,512 --> 00:46:32,878
Now, that's Miss Barrett, room 3
589
00:46:32,947 --> 00:46:34,380
22.
590
00:46:34,449 --> 00:46:36,679
322.
591
00:46:37,652 --> 00:46:39,279
Three twenty-two, now...
592
00:46:39,821 --> 00:46:43,450
- That was Edward Williams.
- Edward Williams.
593
00:46:45,827 --> 00:46:47,158
Edward Williams.
594
00:46:47,896 --> 00:46:50,694
Edward... Edward Williams.
595
00:46:51,766 --> 00:46:56,601
"Must curb tendency to paranoia due
to socioeconomic environmental factors."
596
00:46:58,406 --> 00:46:59,873
Lou Martin, was it?
597
00:47:00,675 --> 00:47:02,870
Louis Martin.
598
00:47:02,944 --> 00:47:06,903
"Exhibits inverted hostility
in manic behavior patterns."
599
00:47:07,448 --> 00:47:08,710
Now, who else was that?
600
00:47:09,183 --> 00:47:10,673
Rusty O'Brien.
601
00:47:10,752 --> 00:47:12,549
Richard, Richard...
602
00:47:13,354 --> 00:47:17,757
"Show signs of latent homosexuality
induced by narcissistic mother"
603
00:47:17,992 --> 00:47:20,722
"and permissive self-abusive practices."
604
00:47:20,895 --> 00:47:23,125
Am I going too fast for you, Miss Barrett?
605
00:47:23,197 --> 00:47:26,257
No, no, I think that I understand.
606
00:47:26,334 --> 00:47:29,633
Eddie Williams hates white people,
607
00:47:29,971 --> 00:47:34,806
Lou Martin is a cut-up
and Rusty O'Brien hates women.
608
00:47:36,644 --> 00:47:39,579
It's a wise teacher who translates
such complexities
609
00:47:39,647 --> 00:47:41,808
into the environmental vernacular.
610
00:47:41,883 --> 00:47:45,182
- What about Joe Ferone?
- Joe Ferone?
611
00:47:46,254 --> 00:47:47,687
Ferone.
612
00:47:49,524 --> 00:47:52,459
"Should channel
his libidino-aggressive impulses"
613
00:47:52,527 --> 00:47:55,291
"into socially acceptable attitudes."
614
00:47:56,331 --> 00:47:58,959
I suggest you wear a smock.
615
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:00,633
On the...
616
00:48:01,536 --> 00:48:04,994
On the blue line,
to the right of the blue line on the PRC
617
00:48:05,073 --> 00:48:08,236
is the CC. Capsule characterization.
618
00:48:08,309 --> 00:48:09,776
Now, at the end of each term,
619
00:48:09,844 --> 00:48:14,042
each teacher
writes a succinct phrase for each student.
620
00:48:14,649 --> 00:48:16,276
A summing up.
621
00:48:16,684 --> 00:48:19,152
You should start thinking
about your CC's now.
622
00:48:19,220 --> 00:48:22,656
For example, Linda Rosen.
623
00:48:22,757 --> 00:48:24,850
What would you say so far?
624
00:48:24,926 --> 00:48:27,053
Marry her off fast.
625
00:48:27,762 --> 00:48:29,957
You don't quite get the idea, Miss Barrett.
626
00:48:30,031 --> 00:48:34,365
Her home room teacher last term
wrote, "Works to capacity."
627
00:48:35,303 --> 00:48:36,964
That's true.
628
00:48:37,705 --> 00:48:40,367
Now, other exemplary CC's would be,
629
00:48:40,441 --> 00:48:41,874
"Latent leader."
630
00:48:42,610 --> 00:48:44,544
"Needs encouragement."
631
00:48:45,046 --> 00:48:48,072
"Fine boy." "Should try harder."
632
00:48:49,083 --> 00:48:54,146
My CC's go back 23 years,
since I first came to Calvin Coolidge.
633
00:48:54,622 --> 00:48:57,147
Before that, unfortunately, there's a void.
634
00:48:58,192 --> 00:49:01,628
You have devoted a whole generation
of time to this work, haven't you,
635
00:49:01,696 --> 00:49:03,323
Miss Friedenberg?
636
00:49:04,165 --> 00:49:06,656
Why, that's very kind of you, Miss Barrett.
637
00:49:06,734 --> 00:49:09,635
No one has ever thought
to comment on it before.
638
00:49:09,704 --> 00:49:11,069
Thank you.
639
00:49:13,741 --> 00:49:18,735
It says here Joe Ferone has an IQ of 133.
That's very high, isn't it?
640
00:49:20,081 --> 00:49:21,480
But his marks are very low.
641
00:49:21,549 --> 00:49:23,176
65, 45, F.
642
00:49:23,251 --> 00:49:26,015
Yes, but there's a 94 in Social Studies.
643
00:49:27,255 --> 00:49:29,348
But a 22 in English.
644
00:49:31,559 --> 00:49:33,789
What kind of an English teacher
would give a 22?
645
00:49:33,861 --> 00:49:37,661
She must have sat up all night
deciding between 21 and 23.
646
00:49:37,999 --> 00:49:41,696
He's volunteered various home addresses,
all of them nonexistent.
647
00:49:42,270 --> 00:49:45,330
So if he doesn't show up at school,
the truant officers won't know where
648
00:49:45,406 --> 00:49:47,931
- to find him.
- They've given up trying.
649
00:49:48,042 --> 00:49:50,010
Yes, but he keeps coming back.
650
00:49:50,078 --> 00:49:51,705
Now and then.
651
00:49:51,779 --> 00:49:53,178
Oh, I'm late.
652
00:49:53,247 --> 00:49:55,374
But may I keep this?
653
00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,744
All right, but bring it back to me.
654
00:49:59,987 --> 00:50:02,649
Oh, yes, of course. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
655
00:50:06,027 --> 00:50:07,858
Please, please may I have your attention.
656
00:50:07,929 --> 00:50:10,124
If you don't quiet... Please. Thank you.
657
00:50:10,331 --> 00:50:14,563
Would the person or persons who took
my desk blotter please return it?
658
00:50:14,736 --> 00:50:18,263
Lou, please.
There will be no questions asked.
659
00:50:18,773 --> 00:50:21,970
Joe Ferone,
will you stay after the bell rings?
660
00:50:22,043 --> 00:50:26,537
I just want my desk blotter back
by tomorrow.
661
00:50:52,306 --> 00:50:56,640
Joe, I got your PRC
from Miss Friedenberg this morning,
662
00:50:56,944 --> 00:50:59,435
and I've been going over it very carefully.
663
00:50:59,714 --> 00:51:02,683
The thing that interests me most
664
00:51:02,750 --> 00:51:04,775
are the contradictions.
665
00:51:04,852 --> 00:51:07,548
The low grades, absences...
666
00:51:07,622 --> 00:51:12,286
This long list of infractions
and disciplinary measures.
667
00:51:12,393 --> 00:51:16,523
And then suddenly, out of nowhere,
a high mark
668
00:51:17,064 --> 00:51:19,055
and perfect attendance.
669
00:51:53,968 --> 00:51:57,665
You gonna report me, Teach,
for not staying after?
670
00:52:01,075 --> 00:52:03,270
I never reported you for anything.
671
00:52:05,112 --> 00:52:06,511
You will.
672
00:52:08,683 --> 00:52:10,776
You act as if you wanted me to.
673
00:52:12,753 --> 00:52:15,347
I've just seen your
type before, that's all.
674
00:52:15,423 --> 00:52:17,323
There's one every year.
675
00:52:17,592 --> 00:52:19,822
"Not living up to your
potential," they say.
676
00:52:20,194 --> 00:52:22,685
Is that what you were gonna say, Teach?
677
00:52:23,397 --> 00:52:27,663
"Just want to help you, Joe.
Just wanna be your friend."
678
00:52:28,970 --> 00:52:32,804
Then they get to feeling very sorry
about your environmental factors
679
00:52:32,874 --> 00:52:35,502
and your low socioeconomic level
680
00:52:36,143 --> 00:52:38,907
till you just have to tell them,
681
00:52:39,614 --> 00:52:42,708
"Get your nose out
of my environmental factors, will you?"
682
00:52:43,217 --> 00:52:45,708
"Keep your damn hands off my potential."
683
00:52:46,053 --> 00:52:48,078
Then they turn you in.
684
00:52:49,957 --> 00:52:51,788
I'm not going to turn you in.
685
00:52:53,060 --> 00:52:54,960
You know, you're better at it than most.
686
00:52:55,029 --> 00:52:59,466
Standing there, looking down at you,
I might almost think you give a damn.
687
00:53:00,067 --> 00:53:02,763
- I do.
- Prove it.
688
00:53:02,904 --> 00:53:04,496
Give me time.
689
00:53:06,073 --> 00:53:08,633
- You trying to make a deal of some kind?
- Are you?
690
00:53:16,617 --> 00:53:18,482
All right, Teach.
691
00:53:19,453 --> 00:53:22,251
Let's have that talk about my potential.
692
00:53:25,159 --> 00:53:27,457
You know...
693
00:53:27,528 --> 00:53:30,190
You could be suspended
for carrying that knife.
694
00:53:32,833 --> 00:53:35,529
Not unless someone turns me in.
695
00:53:45,646 --> 00:53:47,204
Give it to me.
696
00:53:49,717 --> 00:53:50,717
Sure.
697
00:54:01,829 --> 00:54:04,093
Would you come with me, please?
698
00:54:07,068 --> 00:54:10,265
Aren't you gonna say how sorry
you are you have to do this?
699
00:55:20,141 --> 00:55:22,268
All right, everybody out, out, out.
700
00:55:22,343 --> 00:55:24,607
Let's go. Let's go.
701
00:55:28,149 --> 00:55:30,640
Well, "Suggestions", Miss Barrett, eh?
702
00:55:30,951 --> 00:55:32,885
I must say, you've got guts.
703
00:55:32,953 --> 00:55:34,511
Oh, it's just an idea, Mr. McHabe.
704
00:55:35,756 --> 00:55:38,691
It seems to me if the students
have a chance to speak freely,
705
00:55:38,759 --> 00:55:40,454
without constant fear of punishment...
706
00:55:40,528 --> 00:55:43,986
Listen, you try running this school
with ideas, you'll have riots in the rooms.
707
00:55:44,298 --> 00:55:46,425
Fear, that's all they understand.
708
00:55:46,500 --> 00:55:49,060
You, you. Come here.
709
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:55,072
Miss Barrett,
may I see you for a minute, please?
710
00:55:56,844 --> 00:56:01,474
Miss Barrett, the name of Joe Ferone
is being removed from your Delaney book
711
00:56:01,549 --> 00:56:05,610
and will be carried under your
register under temporary suspension.
712
00:56:05,686 --> 00:56:08,154
Sign these, please.
713
00:56:09,457 --> 00:56:11,925
What good is it going to do
to suspend that boy?
714
00:56:12,093 --> 00:56:15,961
Turn him loose on the street
with all the gangs and drop-outs...
715
00:56:16,497 --> 00:56:20,558
Say what you like about Mr. McHabe.
This place was chaos before he came.
716
00:56:22,136 --> 00:56:24,263
I wasn't just blaming him.
717
00:56:33,214 --> 00:56:35,774
Is there always one that gets you
more than the others?
718
00:56:35,850 --> 00:56:39,843
And is it always the one that wants you
to prove something you can't prove
719
00:56:40,020 --> 00:56:42,420
and thinks life is made up of deals?
720
00:56:43,724 --> 00:56:47,251
I wonder if he'll come back
this time or just stay away.
721
00:56:47,728 --> 00:56:50,697
Miss Barrett. Miss Barrett? This...
722
00:56:51,832 --> 00:56:54,232
This boy is one of
your students, I believe.
723
00:56:54,969 --> 00:56:56,937
- Yes.
- He was discovered asleep
724
00:56:57,004 --> 00:56:59,549
in the auditorium this morning
before the school doors were unlocked.
725
00:56:59,573 --> 00:57:02,007
He refuses to say how he got there.
726
00:57:02,076 --> 00:57:04,221
I'll send him back to you
just as soon as I've finished.
727
00:57:04,245 --> 00:57:06,110
Come on, let's go.
728
00:57:31,805 --> 00:57:34,433
I thought you might be ready
for that drink and dinner.
729
00:57:34,575 --> 00:57:37,703
- Maybe Thursday?
- All right, maybe Thursday.
730
00:57:43,150 --> 00:57:46,586
"Dear Teach. Nerts to you."
731
00:57:46,654 --> 00:57:48,645
You shouldn't be reading those.
732
00:57:51,058 --> 00:57:53,891
"Don't try so hard, you'll live longer."
733
00:57:54,128 --> 00:57:56,858
"How about a date? I'll fix you
up like you never had it before."
734
00:57:56,931 --> 00:57:59,195
"Signed, Loverboy."
735
00:57:59,700 --> 00:58:02,601
"Can you make the chalk
stop from squeaking?"
736
00:58:03,437 --> 00:58:07,271
"Is it possible for you to teach
creative writing next term?"
737
00:58:07,341 --> 00:58:10,708
"You showed me that writing clearly
means thinking clearly."
738
00:58:11,345 --> 00:58:14,041
You see that? They are not all jokes.
739
00:58:14,515 --> 00:58:18,281
"Scram! Hit the road. Leave town
if you know what's good for you."
740
00:58:18,385 --> 00:58:19,716
"A Well-Wisher."
741
00:58:19,787 --> 00:58:21,448
You shouldn't make fun of them.
742
00:58:21,522 --> 00:58:24,719
Sometimes a sense of humor
is the only thing that keeps you going.
743
00:58:24,792 --> 00:58:26,783
It's not the same thing.
744
00:58:26,860 --> 00:58:30,990
"It is my considerable opinion
that you are very well qualified."
745
00:58:31,332 --> 00:58:34,392
"No matter how boring the lesson,
you always make it interesting."
746
00:58:34,468 --> 00:58:37,130
- Harry Kagan.
- Harry A. Kagan.
747
00:58:37,471 --> 00:58:41,840
Imagine electing that apple-polishing,
stuffed-shirt president of the GO.
748
00:58:42,009 --> 00:58:44,978
Do they actually think
he's better than they are?
749
00:58:45,112 --> 00:58:48,309
They see through him for what he is.
A fake.
750
00:58:48,382 --> 00:58:50,145
But then they think everything's a fake,
751
00:58:50,217 --> 00:58:51,275
including the GO,
752
00:58:51,352 --> 00:58:54,082
so it doesn't matter who's the president.
753
00:58:54,154 --> 00:58:57,555
It doesn't matter to them
who the president of the United States is.
754
00:58:57,625 --> 00:58:58,990
What's it to them?
755
00:58:59,059 --> 00:59:02,961
That's why your suggestion box is a frost.
756
00:59:03,998 --> 00:59:05,590
What suggestions can they make?
757
00:59:05,666 --> 00:59:07,759
What opinions can they have?
758
00:59:07,835 --> 00:59:09,928
This is the only one that makes sense.
759
00:59:10,037 --> 00:59:13,495
"Don't try so hard, you'll live longer."
760
00:59:14,475 --> 00:59:16,204
Mrs. Coolidge.
761
00:59:21,115 --> 00:59:23,709
Come on, I'll walk you to the corner.
762
00:59:28,622 --> 00:59:32,319
"I am not a good penman,
but I must tell someone.
763
00:59:32,559 --> 00:59:35,119
"I put this in the suggestion box
for the record."
764
00:59:35,195 --> 00:59:37,527
"Today is my birthday."
765
00:59:37,598 --> 00:59:40,396
"Happy birthday to me. Signed, Me."
766
00:59:42,970 --> 00:59:46,064
I just want to do something for that child.
767
00:59:47,908 --> 00:59:50,934
The nurse says wounds
must not be touched.
768
00:59:51,011 --> 00:59:54,242
I can't even find the wounds.
I don't know where they are.
769
00:59:55,449 --> 00:59:56,780
Tomorrow I go into the hospital
770
00:59:56,850 --> 00:59:57,927
- for a week...
- A Hospital?
771
00:59:57,951 --> 00:59:59,282
Routine. I'm at the age.
772
00:59:59,353 --> 01:00:03,346
The doctor took my pulse and said,
"My God, what line of work are you in?"
773
01:00:03,424 --> 01:00:05,264
The sad thing is it's so early
in the semester.
774
01:00:05,292 --> 01:00:07,123
A week is so important.
775
01:00:07,194 --> 01:00:10,288
I don't know who my substitute will be,
but if you're passing my room
776
01:00:10,364 --> 01:00:12,842
and the door is open, would you just stop
and listen for a moment?
777
01:00:12,866 --> 01:00:14,891
And see if she's doing all right?
778
01:00:15,436 --> 01:00:17,904
- Do you trust me to judge?
- Yes.
779
01:00:19,273 --> 01:00:20,706
All ready?
780
01:00:46,100 --> 01:00:48,432
Don't ever hurry down this block.
781
01:00:48,502 --> 01:00:50,094
Just walk slowly.
782
01:00:50,237 --> 01:00:53,604
Even if you're frightened
or late, or it's raining, just walk slowly.
783
01:00:54,641 --> 01:00:57,269
And look. Don't seem to, but look.
784
01:00:57,811 --> 01:00:59,802
This is where they spend 18 hours a day.
785
01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:01,939
We have them for six.
786
01:01:02,850 --> 01:01:06,047
Almost insurmountable odds.
Eighteen to six.
787
01:01:07,121 --> 01:01:09,180
You noticed I said almost?
788
01:01:09,656 --> 01:01:13,092
Because you can't give up,
or you can't give them up.
789
01:01:14,061 --> 01:01:15,722
They've been given up
by too many already.
790
01:01:15,796 --> 01:01:17,559
We're their last chance.
791
01:01:18,031 --> 01:01:20,056
And maybe they're our last chance.
792
01:01:20,934 --> 01:01:25,667
Just walk slowly and think of the odds,
18 to six.
793
01:02:03,744 --> 01:02:05,905
Oh, you dance very well, Miss Barrett.
794
01:02:05,979 --> 01:02:07,708
Thank you, Harry. So do you.
795
01:02:07,781 --> 01:02:12,047
Well, my family has always made sure
that I be trained in the social amenities.
796
01:02:12,686 --> 01:02:14,881
These affairs are rather childish, I think.
797
01:02:14,955 --> 01:02:17,014
But they're for the good of the GO.
798
01:02:23,130 --> 01:02:24,392
Where are we going, Harry?
799
01:02:24,465 --> 01:02:27,505
Well, a gentleman should always return
his partner to the place he originally
800
01:02:27,568 --> 01:02:28,728
picked her up at.
801
01:02:28,802 --> 01:02:31,236
- Thank you, Miss Barrett.
- Thank you, Harry.
802
01:02:36,510 --> 01:02:37,943
Sylvia, have you been dancing?
803
01:02:38,011 --> 01:02:39,011
Not much.
804
01:02:39,313 --> 01:02:41,838
I've been having an amenity
with Harry Kagan.
805
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:48,083
Look, they're doing the Boogaloo.
806
01:02:48,155 --> 01:02:51,886
The Jerk is out, you know.
807
01:02:59,032 --> 01:03:01,865
All right, you two out there, you two.
Off the floor.
808
01:03:01,935 --> 01:03:03,596
You two, all right, all right, all right.
809
01:03:03,670 --> 01:03:05,194
Out, out, off the floor.
810
01:03:05,272 --> 01:03:07,263
No writhing on the floor.
811
01:03:07,474 --> 01:03:13,435
No writhing. All dancers will remain
in a vertical position at all times.
812
01:03:20,387 --> 01:03:22,947
There's Bob Whiteside.
813
01:03:23,490 --> 01:03:25,219
Dance, Miss Pastorfield?
814
01:03:25,459 --> 01:03:28,986
Now, Bob, why would you wanna dance
with an old witch like me
815
01:03:29,062 --> 01:03:32,589
when a pretty young teacher
like Miss Barrett is standing right here.
816
01:03:32,699 --> 01:03:35,099
Oh, Henrietta, now, you go ahead.
I'll watch the punch bowl.
817
01:03:35,369 --> 01:03:36,859
Me, do the Boogaloo?
818
01:03:37,137 --> 01:03:38,866
Why, you're pretty hip, Miss Pastorfield.
819
01:03:38,939 --> 01:03:40,964
Well, if you say so, Bob.
820
01:03:41,041 --> 01:03:44,568
If you say so. Thanks, Syl.
821
01:04:29,022 --> 01:04:30,512
Good evening, Miss Barrett.
822
01:04:30,657 --> 01:04:32,648
Good evening, Alice.
Do you want some punch?
823
01:04:32,726 --> 01:04:34,023
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
824
01:04:35,062 --> 01:04:38,327
Go on, you know what you wanna say.
Go ahead and say it.
825
01:04:39,299 --> 01:04:40,994
I just wanted to say
826
01:04:41,568 --> 01:04:45,299
that at the beginning of the term
I wanted to be in Mr. Barringer's class.
827
01:04:46,006 --> 01:04:48,201
But they made me stay in yours.
828
01:04:48,275 --> 01:04:50,334
I just wanted to say that I'm glad,
829
01:04:50,644 --> 01:04:54,136
although I'd rather be in Mr. Barringer's.
830
01:04:54,281 --> 01:04:56,272
Thank you very much, Alice.
831
01:04:58,285 --> 01:05:02,312
When you taught us that poem
by Edna Vincent Millay,
832
01:05:03,256 --> 01:05:06,783
and the part, "Take your...
Take her head upon your knee."
833
01:05:06,860 --> 01:05:10,091
"And say to her, my dear, my dear.
834
01:05:10,163 --> 01:05:12,825
"Is it is not so dreadful here"?
835
01:05:12,899 --> 01:05:14,662
And you asked who was speaking?
836
01:05:15,602 --> 01:05:17,900
I wanted to say, "Maybe a teacher."
837
01:05:18,338 --> 01:05:19,498
I don't recite well.
838
01:05:19,573 --> 01:05:21,131
Carole has to help me.
839
01:05:21,875 --> 01:05:24,343
- No, no, you recite very well, Alice.
- Thank you.
840
01:05:24,778 --> 01:05:28,145
I even tried to get more of Edna Vincent
Millay and Emily Dickinson.
841
01:05:28,215 --> 01:05:30,740
- You went to the library?
- It was closed.
842
01:05:31,451 --> 01:05:33,214
Will you excuse us a minute, Carole?
843
01:05:33,286 --> 01:05:36,278
You know, it was rehearsed
for her to say that.
844
01:05:37,724 --> 01:05:39,385
She knows everything.
845
01:05:39,626 --> 01:05:43,255
But there are some things when you just
have to talk to an older woman.
846
01:05:43,930 --> 01:05:45,830
Not a mother or an aunt.
847
01:05:45,899 --> 01:05:48,197
Even if it hasn't anything
to do with English.
848
01:05:48,468 --> 01:05:50,436
Good evening, Alice.
849
01:05:52,205 --> 01:05:53,900
Excuse me, Miss Barrett.
850
01:05:56,643 --> 01:06:00,704
There was a choked, unspoken
"I love you" on the end of that sentence.
851
01:06:01,214 --> 01:06:05,878
"She who had no need of me
Is a little lonely child lost in hell."
852
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:08,078
Is that all you want them to say?
853
01:06:08,155 --> 01:06:09,986
"Miss Barrett, I love you."
854
01:06:10,057 --> 01:06:11,422
It's easy to say.
855
01:06:11,491 --> 01:06:13,220
Miss Barrett, I love you.
856
01:06:15,662 --> 01:06:18,597
As a matter of fact,
it's you that she loves.
857
01:06:19,332 --> 01:06:21,172
Is that all you found out
for all your trouble?
858
01:06:21,234 --> 01:06:23,479
Why don't you go dance with her?
She's over there watching.
859
01:06:23,503 --> 01:06:24,868
Well, maybe later.
860
01:06:25,272 --> 01:06:27,433
Why do you always say, "Maybe later"?
861
01:06:27,541 --> 01:06:31,272
Maybe sometime, maybe Thursday,
and there never is a Thursday.
862
01:06:32,212 --> 01:06:35,670
Wasn't this to be our dance?
863
01:06:36,583 --> 01:06:37,583
No.
864
01:06:38,652 --> 01:06:40,017
Not that I know of.
865
01:06:40,187 --> 01:06:42,553
Do you know, you...
You thought that up just this minute,
866
01:06:42,622 --> 01:06:45,455
just now, to avoid dancing with Alice.
867
01:06:45,525 --> 01:06:47,720
Is Miss Barrett refusing me?
868
01:06:49,229 --> 01:06:51,891
I... I have to stay with the punch
till Henrietta comes back.
869
01:06:51,965 --> 01:06:54,490
I think Miss Barrett is avoiding me.
870
01:06:54,568 --> 01:06:56,729
No. I have a telephone.
871
01:06:56,803 --> 01:06:59,067
But it only rings once a week on Sunday
872
01:06:59,473 --> 01:07:02,533
when my mother calls long distance
to remind me of all the recent murders
873
01:07:02,609 --> 01:07:06,306
in the city.
And I have a doorbell, and it works.
874
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:09,178
I write most evenings, you know that.
875
01:07:09,249 --> 01:07:12,514
And you're always
hunched over your suggestion box.
876
01:07:12,586 --> 01:07:14,076
Do you know what I think?
877
01:07:14,154 --> 01:07:16,714
I think if you actually lived in Kamchatka,
878
01:07:16,790 --> 01:07:19,350
and had never seen
Calvin Coolidge High School,
879
01:07:19,426 --> 01:07:22,953
you would write about
Calvin Coolidge High School.
880
01:07:23,029 --> 01:07:25,463
If Miss Barrett will excuse me.
881
01:09:12,772 --> 01:09:14,763
Well, did you do it?
882
01:09:35,562 --> 01:09:37,257
Good morning, Alice.
883
01:09:38,398 --> 01:09:42,698
Would you come to my classroom
for a minute at the end of the day?
884
01:09:53,346 --> 01:09:55,541
Where are you supposed to be?
885
01:10:30,946 --> 01:10:32,504
Come in, Alice.
886
01:10:38,921 --> 01:10:41,151
No, come up here. Close the door.
887
01:10:51,033 --> 01:10:52,523
Come closer, Alice.
888
01:11:03,379 --> 01:11:06,576
First of all, thank you for your note.
889
01:11:06,949 --> 01:11:09,918
Suppose... Suppose we go
through it together.
890
01:11:11,153 --> 01:11:12,677
"Dear Mr. Barringer..."
891
01:11:13,389 --> 01:11:16,051
There's nothing wrong
in using circles to dot "I's",
892
01:11:16,125 --> 01:11:18,855
but it's considered an affectation.
893
01:11:19,595 --> 01:11:21,529
"Last Sunday,
I took the subway to your stop"
894
01:11:21,597 --> 01:11:24,794
"having looked up where you live
on your time card..."
895
01:11:25,100 --> 01:11:29,537
There should be a comma after "stop"
and a period at the end of the sentence,
896
01:11:29,705 --> 01:11:32,799
and no series of dots.
897
01:11:33,909 --> 01:11:35,900
"I hope you don't mind the presumption..."
898
01:11:36,245 --> 01:11:39,544
Look up the spelling of presumption,
899
01:11:40,649 --> 01:11:42,241
and no dots.
900
01:11:42,684 --> 01:11:45,448
"I walked back... and forth...
Across the street from your house."
901
01:11:45,521 --> 01:11:47,079
"Back... and forth..."
902
01:11:47,189 --> 01:11:49,180
Oh, Alice, these dots.
903
01:11:49,558 --> 01:11:51,219
Do you know, I think you use them...
904
01:11:51,293 --> 01:11:53,420
I think you use them because it's easier.
905
01:11:53,495 --> 01:11:56,259
It's easier
than learning correct punctuation.
906
01:11:56,799 --> 01:11:58,790
That's pretty lazy, Alice.
907
01:11:59,334 --> 01:12:02,428
"I thought I saw you in the window,
and my heart was throbbing with this love"
908
01:12:02,504 --> 01:12:04,096
"I bear for you..."
909
01:12:05,641 --> 01:12:07,871
No dots, please
910
01:12:08,243 --> 01:12:11,974
and "throbbing" is pretty cheap.
911
01:12:12,781 --> 01:12:17,081
And omit "this". "Love" will be enough.
912
01:12:18,220 --> 01:12:24,284
"I think of you all the time..."
Dot, dot, dot, "...at night, darkling."
913
01:12:25,761 --> 01:12:29,197
Now, there is a word, "darkling",
but you've misused it here.
914
01:12:29,264 --> 01:12:33,997
And even if you'd used it correctly,
it'd be, literally, pretentious.
915
01:12:35,370 --> 01:12:39,101
"I pray to be worthy of you
and all you stand for."
916
01:12:39,675 --> 01:12:43,805
Now, the phrase "all you stand for"
isn't very clear.
917
01:12:44,546 --> 01:12:46,878
What... What do I stand for?
918
01:12:48,884 --> 01:12:52,012
"If you ever need me to die for you,
I would gladly do so
919
01:12:52,087 --> 01:12:55,579
"like the Lady of Shalott,
only Lancelot didn't know of her love
920
01:12:55,657 --> 01:13:01,596
"and only said, 'She has a lovely face, '
and you do know..." Dot, dot, dot, "...now."
921
01:13:04,032 --> 01:13:06,466
Run-on sentences are pretty popular
just now,
922
01:13:06,535 --> 01:13:10,266
but I can't begin to cope with this one.
923
01:13:11,540 --> 01:13:17,035
I would suggest
that you try to keep away from clichés,
924
01:13:17,112 --> 01:13:20,138
and look up the spelling
of the Lady in Tennyson's.
925
01:13:20,215 --> 01:13:21,978
Idylls of the King.
926
01:13:23,051 --> 01:13:27,852
"I didn't think I'd ever have the courage
to write this letter..." Dot, dot, dot,
927
01:13:27,956 --> 01:13:31,323
"but when you danced with me,
I knew I had to tell the truth."
928
01:13:31,393 --> 01:13:33,293
"The Beautiful Truth."
929
01:13:34,196 --> 01:13:36,323
Well, there's no need
to capitalize "Truth",
930
01:13:36,398 --> 01:13:39,458
nor is there any need
to capitalize "Beautiful."
931
01:13:44,940 --> 01:13:47,773
Morning, Alice. Books for us at last.
932
01:13:47,843 --> 01:13:50,334
Miss Barrett, can I talk to you a minute
before homeroom?
933
01:13:50,412 --> 01:13:51,879
I came early especially.
934
01:13:51,947 --> 01:13:53,209
Of course, Alice. What is it?
935
01:13:53,282 --> 01:13:55,147
Syl. Syl!
936
01:14:00,889 --> 01:14:02,254
The ghost walks.
937
01:14:02,324 --> 01:14:03,484
What does that mean?
938
01:14:03,559 --> 01:14:06,221
Dr. Bester is going to observe you
this morning.
939
01:14:06,295 --> 01:14:08,173
But I thought only the department
chairman observed...
940
01:14:08,197 --> 01:14:11,826
Well, sometimes Dr. Bester
likes to drop in himself.
941
01:14:11,900 --> 01:14:14,767
Look, give them a composition to write.
942
01:14:14,836 --> 01:14:18,237
"My Favorite Sport." That's a good one.
He'll get bored, and he'll go away.
943
01:14:18,307 --> 01:14:19,899
Okay, thank you.
944
01:14:21,743 --> 01:14:25,702
Alice, do you mind if we have our talk
this afternoon, right after school?
945
01:14:25,781 --> 01:14:27,859
- All right, Miss Barrett.
- Now that we have the new books
946
01:14:27,883 --> 01:14:31,944
I have to have a few minutes
to revise my lesson plan for the day.
947
01:14:51,873 --> 01:14:55,206
All right, class. Class!
In your seats, please.
948
01:14:55,844 --> 01:14:58,870
Let's fill out these book receipts
as quickly as possible
949
01:14:58,947 --> 01:15:01,040
so we can get on to a story
950
01:15:01,116 --> 01:15:05,280
that's been a favorite of hundreds
of thousands of people for years.
951
01:15:06,755 --> 01:15:08,518
Morning, Dr. Bester.
952
01:15:08,590 --> 01:15:10,568
Do you mind if I observe
for a while, Miss Barrett?
953
01:15:10,592 --> 01:15:13,390
Not at all. I'm sorry, Dr. Bester,
954
01:15:13,462 --> 01:15:17,922
but the extra chairs that I requisitioned
in September still haven't arrived.
955
01:15:18,166 --> 01:15:21,761
Roy, would you give Dr. Bester
your chair, please,
956
01:15:21,837 --> 01:15:24,305
and stand in the back of the room, please?
957
01:15:24,373 --> 01:15:26,050
I'll stand at the back
of the room, Miss Barrett.
958
01:15:26,074 --> 01:15:27,405
Thank you.
959
01:15:28,377 --> 01:15:31,244
Who would like to help me
distribute the books?
960
01:15:31,313 --> 01:15:34,043
Where is Alice Blake? Where is Alice?
961
01:15:34,116 --> 01:15:36,209
I don't know, Miss Barrett.
962
01:15:36,285 --> 01:15:40,688
Well, it's not like Alice to cut.
All right, girls, you help me, please.
963
01:16:35,477 --> 01:16:39,413
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles.
964
01:16:42,784 --> 01:16:49,019
Dickens. 1812, 1870.
965
01:16:51,426 --> 01:16:53,121
We are not going to talk about this book.
966
01:16:53,195 --> 01:16:56,323
We are going to begin by reading it
on page one.
967
01:16:57,099 --> 01:17:00,967
Jerry. Jerry, will you read
the first paragraph aloud, please?
968
01:17:03,672 --> 01:17:07,130
"It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
969
01:17:07,209 --> 01:17:10,667
"it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
970
01:17:10,746 --> 01:17:15,183
"it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
971
01:17:15,684 --> 01:17:18,915
"it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
972
01:17:18,987 --> 01:17:22,320
"it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
973
01:17:22,391 --> 01:17:25,588
"we had everything before us,
we had nothing before us,"
974
01:17:25,660 --> 01:17:27,220
"we were all going directly to Heaven,"
975
01:17:27,295 --> 01:17:29,786
"we were all going
directly the other way..."
976
01:17:29,865 --> 01:17:31,492
Thank you, Jerry. That's enough for now.
977
01:17:31,566 --> 01:17:34,228
All right class,
what strikes you immediately?
978
01:17:34,302 --> 01:17:36,031
The different things.
979
01:17:36,104 --> 01:17:38,402
- The yes and no's.
- The opposites.
980
01:17:38,473 --> 01:17:41,806
Yes. Dickens was saying
something very simple,
981
01:17:42,344 --> 01:17:45,279
by the use of contrasts or opposites.
982
01:17:45,981 --> 01:17:47,573
We call this...
983
01:17:55,590 --> 01:17:56,989
Antithesis.
984
01:17:57,893 --> 01:18:01,727
Instead of saying,
"It was a crazy, mixed-up period,"
985
01:18:01,797 --> 01:18:05,198
he says, "It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times".
986
01:18:05,267 --> 01:18:08,464
But the most interesting part
of the paragraph
987
01:18:08,537 --> 01:18:10,198
is still to come.
988
01:18:11,873 --> 01:18:15,365
Merle, would you read
the next phrase aloud, please?
989
01:18:16,211 --> 01:18:19,112
"In short, the period was so far
like the present period..."
990
01:18:19,181 --> 01:18:21,513
Stop. That's enough. Thank you.
991
01:18:21,950 --> 01:18:25,545
Dickens wrote that
more than 100 years ago,
992
01:18:25,620 --> 01:18:28,885
referring to a time almost 200 years ago.
993
01:18:28,957 --> 01:18:32,393
"It was so far like the present period."
994
01:18:33,495 --> 01:18:37,056
Now, what I want to know is,
can we still say that today?
995
01:18:37,966 --> 01:18:40,958
Is it still the best of times,
the worst of times?
996
01:18:41,036 --> 01:18:42,560
Only the worst.
997
01:18:42,771 --> 01:18:44,898
Why is it only the worst, Lennie?
998
01:18:44,973 --> 01:18:46,372
'Cause that's what it is.
999
01:18:46,441 --> 01:18:48,442
Well, perhaps it would help us
if you would tell us
1000
01:18:48,477 --> 01:18:50,968
what you mean by the word "worst".
1001
01:18:51,780 --> 01:18:52,838
Poor.
1002
01:18:52,914 --> 01:18:56,782
But aren't we in the midst of prosperity?
Isn't it also the best of times?
1003
01:18:56,885 --> 01:18:58,614
There's still the rats and no toilets.
1004
01:18:58,687 --> 01:19:00,484
Aren't there also
new housing developments
1005
01:19:00,555 --> 01:19:02,022
with playgrounds and parks?
1006
01:19:02,090 --> 01:19:03,648
Parks is murder pits.
1007
01:19:03,725 --> 01:19:05,886
Is Yellowstone National Park a murder pit?
1008
01:19:05,961 --> 01:19:07,656
We saw the movie in assembly.
1009
01:19:07,729 --> 01:19:09,856
- That's right, Esmeralda.
- Narcotics makes it worse.
1010
01:19:09,931 --> 01:19:12,456
All right.
All right, who can answer narcotics?
1011
01:19:12,534 --> 01:19:13,534
What's the best?
1012
01:20:03,785 --> 01:20:07,186
Is it still the season of light
and the season of darkness?
1013
01:20:07,255 --> 01:20:08,950
- Miss Barrett.
- Yes, Eddie.
1014
01:20:09,024 --> 01:20:11,822
Darks don't have no chance, only whites.
1015
01:20:13,228 --> 01:20:15,696
What about the civil rights laws
and integration?
1016
01:20:15,764 --> 01:20:17,026
Yeah, what about?
1017
01:20:17,098 --> 01:20:19,157
How stupid can you get, huh?
1018
01:20:19,234 --> 01:20:21,293
What are you talking about?
They passed the law.
1019
01:20:22,103 --> 01:20:24,594
Bussing kids to school miles away.
1020
01:20:25,674 --> 01:20:27,652
We can't be juggled
like different-colored marbles.
1021
01:20:27,676 --> 01:20:29,735
Yeah, and go home to the rats
with no toilets.
1022
01:20:29,811 --> 01:20:32,177
And the junkies on the road, dope addicts.
1023
01:20:32,247 --> 01:20:34,078
Kids who wouldn't even arrive.
1024
01:20:36,051 --> 01:20:38,485
All right. All right. All right.
1025
01:20:38,987 --> 01:20:43,048
We have time for one last comment.
All right, Harry.
1026
01:20:43,124 --> 01:20:46,287
The General Organization of which
I am president of is proud to consider
1027
01:20:46,361 --> 01:20:50,320
that other races have just as much right
to be human voters, too.
1028
01:20:50,398 --> 01:20:52,025
Get bent!
1029
01:20:55,170 --> 01:20:57,365
Get bent!
1030
01:20:57,439 --> 01:21:01,068
All right. All right,
class. Please. Please.
1031
01:21:01,209 --> 01:21:03,803
What we've been saying
is that there are certain similarities
1032
01:21:03,945 --> 01:21:06,209
between our period
and the period of Dickens
1033
01:21:06,281 --> 01:21:07,762
and the period of Tale of Two Cities.
1034
01:21:07,816 --> 01:21:10,842
As we read on, let's continue to be aware
1035
01:21:10,919 --> 01:21:13,080
of these similarities and differences
1036
01:21:13,154 --> 01:21:16,146
because that will make us understand
why this book still can be exciting
1037
01:21:16,224 --> 01:21:18,351
and interesting
after being written 100 years ago.
1038
01:21:18,426 --> 01:21:20,485
All right.
All right, Lou, what do you want to say?
1039
01:21:20,562 --> 01:21:26,057
With the bombs going up and our morals
going down, we got anti-thesis.
1040
01:21:28,236 --> 01:21:29,863
All right, class.
1041
01:21:31,506 --> 01:21:32,905
All right.
1042
01:21:41,549 --> 01:21:44,677
Miss Barrett, what is the meaning
of this noise?
1043
01:21:48,123 --> 01:21:49,522
With Dr. Bester here, you allowed
1044
01:21:49,591 --> 01:21:51,388
your class to behave
in this unruly fashion?
1045
01:21:51,459 --> 01:21:54,121
I could hear them all the way down
the corridor above the drilling.
1046
01:21:54,195 --> 01:21:56,186
It's the sound of thinking, Mr. McHabe.
1047
01:21:56,264 --> 01:21:58,994
This class cannot wait to read
A Tale of Two Cities,
1048
01:21:59,067 --> 01:22:02,503
and Lou Martin made a joke with a point,
a serious point.
1049
01:22:02,570 --> 01:22:05,232
And Eddie Williams
spoke out in class for the first time...
1050
01:22:05,306 --> 01:22:08,275
Mr. McHabe, report to the main office
at once. Urgent.
1051
01:22:08,343 --> 01:22:12,575
Mr. McHabe, report to the main office
at once. Urgent.
1052
01:22:18,787 --> 01:22:22,416
Sit down in your seats.
Bob Whiteside will handle the class.
1053
01:22:22,490 --> 01:22:25,721
I'll be back in a moment. Let's not panic.
1054
01:22:25,794 --> 01:22:26,794
Get back in the room.
1055
01:22:30,899 --> 01:22:33,739
You are to go to the office immediately.
I'll keep an eye on your class.
1056
01:22:33,768 --> 01:22:35,497
Bob Whiteside is taking over mine.
1057
01:22:35,570 --> 01:22:37,581
- What happened?
- Alice Blake jumped out the window.
1058
01:22:37,605 --> 01:22:39,232
She killed herself?
1059
01:22:39,307 --> 01:22:41,537
No, the ledge broke her fall.
1060
01:22:55,623 --> 01:22:56,749
Alice Blake?
1061
01:22:56,825 --> 01:22:58,025
Thank heavens, someone's come.
1062
01:22:58,093 --> 01:23:00,152
The nurse is always forgotten
at a time like this.
1063
01:23:00,228 --> 01:23:01,923
- Where is Alice?
- Hospital. Hospital.
1064
01:23:01,996 --> 01:23:04,521
- Is she going to be all right?
- It's too soon. It's too soon.
1065
01:23:04,599 --> 01:23:07,227
It's too late. Send her
health card at once.
1066
01:23:07,302 --> 01:23:09,827
Do you have any blank accident reports?
I'm all...
1067
01:23:12,941 --> 01:23:14,431
Did you see her jump?
1068
01:23:14,576 --> 01:23:18,637
I didn't see anyone jump.
I'm not really a witness.
1069
01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:23,380
I was just passing room 309, and I saw
something going out of the window.
1070
01:23:23,451 --> 01:23:26,852
Check here. Parent or guardian.
Reached or not reached.
1071
01:23:26,921 --> 01:23:31,722
Telephone or telegram, and
you fill in here, jumped or fell.
1072
01:23:31,793 --> 01:23:33,260
How is Alice?
1073
01:23:33,762 --> 01:23:34,805
The only important consideration
1074
01:23:34,829 --> 01:23:35,869
is that the whole disaster
1075
01:23:35,997 --> 01:23:37,074
would not have occurred if...
1076
01:23:37,098 --> 01:23:39,498
Come in, Miss Barrett. Sit down.
1077
01:23:40,001 --> 01:23:41,866
Thank you, Dr. Bester.
1078
01:23:42,837 --> 01:23:44,668
Is Alice going to be all right?
1079
01:23:44,739 --> 01:23:46,400
Everything possible is being done.
1080
01:23:46,474 --> 01:23:48,052
The whole disaster
would not have occurred
1081
01:23:48,076 --> 01:23:51,136
if Mr. Barringer's classroom
had not been empty during first period.
1082
01:23:51,212 --> 01:23:53,009
I have no class then.
1083
01:23:53,081 --> 01:23:56,175
Nevertheless, you know it that
you're supposed to be in the building.
1084
01:23:56,251 --> 01:24:00,244
I was having breakfast
at Cora's Coffee Pot on Whitney Avenue.
1085
01:24:01,189 --> 01:24:04,750
I see. Is that your usual procedure
during first period?
1086
01:24:04,826 --> 01:24:08,785
Sometimes I patronize Harry's
Ham 'N' Eggs if Cora's is crowded.
1087
01:24:09,764 --> 01:24:13,200
Miss Finch, you haven't reported
Mr. Barringer's lateness in punching in.
1088
01:24:13,268 --> 01:24:16,135
He's always punched in. Always.
On the dot.
1089
01:24:17,605 --> 01:24:20,597
Who's been punching
in for you, Mr. Barringer?
1090
01:24:24,112 --> 01:24:26,672
Gallantry, Mr. McHabe. Gallantry.
1091
01:24:27,315 --> 01:24:30,409
Miss Finch, see that a directive
goes out to all teachers at once.
1092
01:24:30,485 --> 01:24:34,512
In future, no room will be left uncovered
at any time when not in use,
1093
01:24:34,589 --> 01:24:37,581
and to prevent further
unfortunate incidents,
1094
01:24:37,659 --> 01:24:41,425
all teachers are instructed to re-double
their vigilance at all times.
1095
01:24:41,496 --> 01:24:45,455
I punched him in. He's a creative artist.
1096
01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:49,936
He shouldn't have to get up at 6:30
like the rest of us.
1097
01:24:54,209 --> 01:24:57,337
I have here the girl's PRC, Dr. Bester.
1098
01:24:57,412 --> 01:25:00,848
Now, the capsule characterizations
for the past three terms read,
1099
01:25:00,915 --> 01:25:05,909
"Nice and helpful", "Leadership potential",
and "Reliable blackboard monitor".
1100
01:25:05,987 --> 01:25:07,511
Thank you, Miss Friedenberg.
1101
01:25:07,622 --> 01:25:10,489
It's most atypical for a girl
with her stable PPP
1102
01:25:10,558 --> 01:25:12,116
to have done what she did,
1103
01:25:12,227 --> 01:25:13,956
but there are factors beyond our control
1104
01:25:14,028 --> 01:25:17,794
which are frequently the cause
of emotional disequilibrium.
1105
01:25:19,334 --> 01:25:23,737
Miss Friedenberg has delicately
brought us to the question of motivation.
1106
01:25:23,805 --> 01:25:26,273
It's my fault, sir. I am to blame.
1107
01:25:26,908 --> 01:25:28,773
Are you, Miss Barrett?
1108
01:25:29,878 --> 01:25:32,472
Alice came to me this morning
and wanted to talk.
1109
01:25:32,547 --> 01:25:36,711
If I had spent five minutes with her,
this might not have happened.
1110
01:25:37,919 --> 01:25:40,285
Well, this letter was found
on the child's person.
1111
01:25:40,355 --> 01:25:42,880
Do you recognize it, Mr. Barringer?
1112
01:25:43,157 --> 01:25:45,455
Yes, it's a letter she wrote to me.
1113
01:25:45,526 --> 01:25:47,687
A love letter, I should say.
1114
01:25:47,929 --> 01:25:51,626
Which I corrected for grammar
and spelling and returned to the student.
1115
01:25:51,699 --> 01:25:54,099
With no comment on its contents?
1116
01:25:54,936 --> 01:25:56,164
No, sir.
1117
01:25:58,706 --> 01:26:02,472
Your gallantry seems to vary
from day to day, Mr. Barringer.
1118
01:26:02,977 --> 01:26:05,468
May I ask, sir, what I should have done?
1119
01:26:05,546 --> 01:26:07,036
Talked to her.
1120
01:26:07,548 --> 01:26:10,073
And encouraged a neurotic teenager?
1121
01:26:40,648 --> 01:26:43,242
Miss Barrett, this boy is being admitted
once again, as always,
1122
01:26:43,318 --> 01:26:45,149
as usual, on probation.
1123
01:26:45,219 --> 01:26:47,847
I want you to report the slightest
violation of the smallest rule.
1124
01:26:47,922 --> 01:26:49,913
The next time it'll mean expulsion.
1125
01:26:49,991 --> 01:26:51,288
Yes, sir.
1126
01:26:58,833 --> 01:27:01,927
Look at me, Teach.
Punched in with my own hand.
1127
01:27:10,678 --> 01:27:13,169
Miss Barrett. Miss Barrett.
1128
01:27:13,247 --> 01:27:14,578
May I remind you
1129
01:27:14,649 --> 01:27:17,743
that Alice Blake still has
a library copy of Idylls of the King?
1130
01:27:17,819 --> 01:27:22,620
- It's already 15 cents overdue.
- Well, I'll see that you get it, Mrs. Wolf.
1131
01:27:34,569 --> 01:27:36,560
Can I talk to you
for a minute, Miss Barrett?
1132
01:27:36,637 --> 01:27:40,869
Good morning, Eddie. Sit down.
I've been wanting to talk to you, too.
1133
01:27:49,017 --> 01:27:53,249
You've been doing so much better lately.
Speaking out in class.
1134
01:27:54,088 --> 01:27:57,216
- Getting your assignments in on time.
- I'm dropping out.
1135
01:27:57,291 --> 01:27:59,725
You gotta sign my book clearance.
1136
01:28:04,565 --> 01:28:08,934
Oh, Eddie, why?
Just when you're doing so well.
1137
01:28:13,207 --> 01:28:15,937
Do your parents want you to? Is that it?
1138
01:28:19,347 --> 01:28:21,338
Do you have to get a job?
1139
01:28:24,619 --> 01:28:28,783
Listen, Eddie, if it's a matter of money,
1140
01:28:29,190 --> 01:28:31,215
we can talk to somebody.
1141
01:28:36,097 --> 01:28:40,295
Oh, Eddie,
you may be ruining your chances.
1142
01:28:41,936 --> 01:28:46,134
You may be able to get a job now.
You may be able to get an ordinary job,
1143
01:28:46,207 --> 01:28:48,869
but you can get a better job
if you just stick it out.
1144
01:28:48,943 --> 01:28:51,138
My brother stuck it out here.
1145
01:28:51,279 --> 01:28:55,613
He went up for that better job.
He went up for that ordinary job, also.
1146
01:28:56,617 --> 01:29:00,314
The very next day
some whities had both jobs.
1147
01:29:02,156 --> 01:29:03,817
Oh, Eddie, I'm...
1148
01:29:04,125 --> 01:29:08,994
- Look at the negro teachers in this school.
- I just won't be them, Miss Barrett.
1149
01:29:10,631 --> 01:29:15,125
Well, Eddie, what will you do? Nothing?
1150
01:29:16,938 --> 01:29:19,338
You gotta sign my book clearance.
1151
01:29:53,107 --> 01:29:58,067
Dickens calls the first book of A
Tale of Two Cities, "Recalled to life."
1152
01:29:58,146 --> 01:29:59,636
Now, what does that suggest?
1153
01:29:59,714 --> 01:30:01,113
- Can't be done.
- Dead is dead.
1154
01:30:01,182 --> 01:30:02,182
So who's recalling?
1155
01:30:02,250 --> 01:30:05,117
Physical death isn't
the only kind of death.
1156
01:30:05,186 --> 01:30:07,916
The spirit may be killed, or the mind,
or the will,
1157
01:30:07,989 --> 01:30:11,447
and then sometimes something happens
to make it come to life again.
1158
01:30:11,526 --> 01:30:14,290
In the case of Dr. Manette,
who's been imprisoned for...
1159
01:30:18,499 --> 01:30:20,626
Good morning, Miss Barrett.
1160
01:30:20,801 --> 01:30:23,668
As all the world knows by now,
I've no class first period,
1161
01:30:23,738 --> 01:30:25,296
so I decided to sit in on yours.
1162
01:30:25,373 --> 01:30:27,364
- What's the lesson plan for today?
- Paul...
1163
01:30:27,441 --> 01:30:30,342
Surely a dedicated teacher like you
has a lesson plan.
1164
01:30:30,411 --> 01:30:32,902
- A Tale of Two Cities.
- Perfect!
1165
01:30:34,215 --> 01:30:37,309
May I remind you
that tale is spelt T-A-L-E.
1166
01:30:40,621 --> 01:30:43,749
They say a writer
should stick to what he knows.
1167
01:30:43,925 --> 01:30:45,415
What nonsense.
1168
01:30:46,460 --> 01:30:48,951
What did Dickens know
about French Revolutions?
1169
01:30:49,030 --> 01:30:51,999
What did Shakespeare know
about Moors in Venice?
1170
01:30:52,066 --> 01:30:55,001
If he'd stuck to what he knew,
we'd have no Othello.
1171
01:30:55,069 --> 01:30:58,664
We'd have no Alice in Wonderland.
We'd have no Treasure Island.
1172
01:30:58,739 --> 01:31:02,197
You brats think that I and Miss Barrett
stand up there, day after day,
1173
01:31:02,276 --> 01:31:05,768
talking about books and the writing
of books just for the hell of it?
1174
01:31:05,846 --> 01:31:08,679
You think it's got nothing to do with you.
1175
01:31:08,849 --> 01:31:13,149
A writer creates a book.
An individual creates a life.
1176
01:31:14,422 --> 01:31:19,052
For a writer to create a masterpiece,
he's got to think beyond what he knows.
1177
01:31:19,126 --> 01:31:23,028
For an individual to create a life,
even a halfway-decent one,
1178
01:31:23,331 --> 01:31:26,164
he's gotta go beyond what he knows.
1179
01:31:27,134 --> 01:31:31,264
Go beyond the poverty, the disease,
the dope, the degeneracy.
1180
01:31:31,939 --> 01:31:34,271
Go beyond the oceans to the Alps,
1181
01:31:34,342 --> 01:31:35,900
a magnificent replica of which
1182
01:31:35,977 --> 01:31:39,003
the Board of Education
has generously donated.
1183
01:31:39,080 --> 01:31:40,104
Stick with what you think
1184
01:31:40,181 --> 01:31:42,411
and that's what you're gonna
be stuck with.
1185
01:31:42,483 --> 01:31:44,883
You may as well get out. Now.
1186
01:31:53,160 --> 01:31:55,526
Miss Barrett's class dismissed.
1187
01:31:56,297 --> 01:31:59,562
All of you dismissed
for the rest of your crummy lives.
1188
01:31:59,634 --> 01:32:03,400
Some of you may prefer to leave by
the window. I prefer to leave by the door.
1189
01:32:03,471 --> 01:32:05,701
Punch me out, will you, Teach?
1190
01:32:28,796 --> 01:32:34,735
Browning wrote, "A man's reach must
exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
1191
01:32:36,037 --> 01:32:39,131
But there's something to be said for first,
1192
01:32:39,440 --> 01:32:44,969
or finally, or sometime knowing what
your grasp is without giving up courage,
1193
01:32:46,514 --> 01:32:49,813
or heart, or whatever you want to call it.
1194
01:32:51,252 --> 01:32:55,746
If you deny what you know
or what you are, or where you are,
1195
01:32:55,956 --> 01:32:59,858
you deny the simplest part of being alive,
and you die,
1196
01:33:04,565 --> 01:33:09,002
like Dr. Manette
who was imprisoned for 18 years
1197
01:33:10,071 --> 01:33:12,096
in A Tale of Two Cities.
1198
01:33:14,275 --> 01:33:17,108
Can he be recalled to life?
1199
01:33:29,056 --> 01:33:30,819
I think some can.
1200
01:33:31,192 --> 01:33:36,289
At least, they come back to where life is
of their own accord.
1201
01:33:38,165 --> 01:33:40,360
And that's a beginning.
1202
01:33:51,112 --> 01:33:54,411
Do not turn the papers over
until the bell has rung.
1203
01:33:58,853 --> 01:34:01,947
Examination papers must not be touched
until the bell rings.
1204
01:34:02,022 --> 01:34:04,786
All books, notebooks,
1205
01:34:05,259 --> 01:34:08,057
pocket books and other personal
possessions must be placed
1206
01:34:08,129 --> 01:34:10,063
on the floor in front of the room.
1207
01:34:10,197 --> 01:34:14,429
Doctor says to take a pill at 9:30.
Can I keep a pill if it's not written on?
1208
01:34:14,635 --> 01:34:18,594
When the bell rings,
you are to turn your papers over in unison.
1209
01:34:18,739 --> 01:34:21,139
No student is to leave his seat.
1210
01:34:21,208 --> 01:34:24,473
If you have a question, raise your hand,
and I will be in the back of the room.
1211
01:34:24,545 --> 01:34:26,590
If you stand back there,
how can we tell who you're watching?
1212
01:34:26,614 --> 01:34:28,741
- Whom, whom I'm watching.
- Whom.
1213
01:34:28,816 --> 01:34:30,443
- Teach, hey, Teach. We gotta...
- Teach.
1214
01:34:30,518 --> 01:34:32,782
All right, class. Let's settle down.
1215
01:34:32,853 --> 01:34:36,152
Class, let's settle down
and wait for the bell.
1216
01:34:43,030 --> 01:34:45,555
It isn't fair. We never had this.
1217
01:34:45,633 --> 01:34:49,569
They always ask what I don't know
and never ask what I know.
1218
01:34:50,037 --> 01:34:53,495
Silence. Let's get to
work. Time is passing.
1219
01:35:12,159 --> 01:35:13,353
Toilet.
1220
01:35:14,195 --> 01:35:16,288
Come with me.
1221
01:35:25,840 --> 01:35:28,331
You have to wait for the hall proctor.
1222
01:35:29,143 --> 01:35:30,838
You mean you don't trust me?
1223
01:35:30,911 --> 01:35:32,936
Proctor has to escort you.
1224
01:35:36,517 --> 01:35:38,178
All right, I'll make a deal with you.
1225
01:35:38,252 --> 01:35:40,049
I'll let you go alone.
1226
01:35:40,921 --> 01:35:44,516
But it's to be understood you are
honor-bound not to use the lavatory
1227
01:35:44,592 --> 01:35:46,924
for any but legitimate purposes,
not for a reference room,
1228
01:35:46,994 --> 01:35:48,071
not even for a quick smoke.
1229
01:35:48,095 --> 01:35:49,790
Now, is that understood?
1230
01:35:49,897 --> 01:35:51,262
Sure, Teach.
1231
01:36:11,619 --> 01:36:13,211
You let him out of the room unescorted.
1232
01:36:13,287 --> 01:36:15,278
There was no hall proctor.
1233
01:36:15,356 --> 01:36:17,881
You realize, of course,
his exam paper's now invalidated.
1234
01:36:17,958 --> 01:36:21,121
- There's no point in his continuing.
- He wasn't looking up any answers.
1235
01:36:21,195 --> 01:36:23,493
- How do you know that?
- He told me he wouldn't.
1236
01:36:23,564 --> 01:36:25,442
- Do you believe him?
- I believe him and I think
1237
01:36:25,466 --> 01:36:28,230
he should be allowed to finish.
1238
01:36:29,203 --> 01:36:32,502
Very well, Miss Barrett, but I want
that exam paper corrected immediately
1239
01:36:32,573 --> 01:36:37,169
at the end of the day and then I want
to see you and the boy in my office.
1240
01:36:39,446 --> 01:36:42,415
Second girl in third row,
eyes on your paper.
1241
01:36:46,487 --> 01:36:48,921
Joe, please return to your seat.
1242
01:37:25,693 --> 01:37:28,127
Eighty-six percent, Joe.
1243
01:37:33,567 --> 01:37:36,127
Wait. Wait.
1244
01:37:49,516 --> 01:37:51,143
Well, the boy has obviously cheated.
1245
01:37:51,218 --> 01:37:54,051
The 86 percent he earned
was for essay questions
1246
01:37:54,121 --> 01:37:57,852
requiring the personal interpretation
of the student.
1247
01:37:57,925 --> 01:38:00,655
Evaluations, comparisons and judgment.
1248
01:38:00,761 --> 01:38:03,696
And certainly not the kind of material
you could look up in a lavatory.
1249
01:38:03,797 --> 01:38:06,322
Well, the examination will be gone over
with a fine-toothed comb
1250
01:38:06,400 --> 01:38:07,890
by an unbiased party.
1251
01:38:07,968 --> 01:38:10,402
I think the boy should be
accused of cheating now
1252
01:38:10,471 --> 01:38:12,939
and allowed to defend himself,
or exonerated with an apology.
1253
01:38:13,007 --> 01:38:15,942
And as for your conduct,
Miss Barrett, in the...
1254
01:38:16,677 --> 01:38:18,622
- McHabe speaking.
- I think the boy has a right to know
1255
01:38:18,646 --> 01:38:20,238
where he stands.
1256
01:38:20,314 --> 01:38:22,714
Yes, Sergeant, she is one of our students.
1257
01:38:22,916 --> 01:38:25,544
Just a minute. We'll finish this later.
1258
01:38:27,521 --> 01:38:31,355
Well, there's nothing we can do
about it personally, Sergeant.
1259
01:38:31,558 --> 01:38:34,823
No, it's...
It's a matter for one of the youth boards.
1260
01:38:37,665 --> 01:38:39,929
Got you in trouble, didn't I, Teach?
1261
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:42,127
Just think, if I'd gotten
my usual 20 percent,
1262
01:38:42,202 --> 01:38:44,796
the whole thing
would have probably blown over.
1263
01:38:45,506 --> 01:38:50,000
Listen, Joe, if you're saying to me you got
86 percent just to get me into trouble,
1264
01:38:50,844 --> 01:38:51,884
let me tell you something.
1265
01:38:51,945 --> 01:38:53,037
I don't care.
1266
01:38:53,113 --> 01:38:56,310
You got it. I was hard on you, Joe.
I was tough.
1267
01:38:56,383 --> 01:39:00,012
I didn't let you get away
with one single misplaced comma.
1268
01:39:00,621 --> 01:39:04,057
You, Joe, 86 percent.
1269
01:39:18,772 --> 01:39:21,263
To all parents. Welcome.
1270
01:39:22,509 --> 01:39:26,912
Your son or daughter has given you
a copy of his or her program
1271
01:39:27,247 --> 01:39:30,148
with the name of each
of his or her teachers
1272
01:39:30,217 --> 01:39:33,152
and the room
where the teacher may be found.
1273
01:39:33,787 --> 01:39:37,416
If you are unable to locate
these designated rooms,
1274
01:39:37,491 --> 01:39:39,686
please come to room 112,
1275
01:39:40,394 --> 01:39:44,854
112, to the right of
the main entrance, for information.
1276
01:39:45,966 --> 01:39:47,024
In order to see as many...
1277
01:39:47,101 --> 01:39:49,001
- Come in, Roy.
- Parents as possible,
1278
01:39:49,069 --> 01:39:53,267
teachers have been instructed
to allot no more than five minutes...
1279
01:39:53,340 --> 01:39:54,984
- How do you do, Mrs. Atkins?
- To each parent.
1280
01:39:55,008 --> 01:39:56,873
It's Lewes. Mrs. Lewes.
1281
01:39:57,511 --> 01:39:59,945
- We got different names.
- Mrs. Lewes.
1282
01:40:00,547 --> 01:40:03,983
Do my five minutes start now
or when we start talking?
1283
01:40:04,084 --> 01:40:07,315
No, no, please,
you can have as much time as you like.
1284
01:40:07,387 --> 01:40:09,855
There seems to be a small turnout tonight.
1285
01:40:09,923 --> 01:40:11,220
I've got to go.
1286
01:40:11,291 --> 01:40:12,519
Yeah, you'd better go.
1287
01:40:12,593 --> 01:40:14,618
- Good night, Miss Barrett.
- Good night, Roy.
1288
01:40:14,695 --> 01:40:17,459
Won't you sit down please, Mrs. Lewes?
1289
01:40:18,565 --> 01:40:21,398
I'm very pleased to meet Roy's mother.
1290
01:40:22,536 --> 01:40:26,472
- He seems very cooperative in class...
- What if I'm not his mother?
1291
01:40:26,540 --> 01:40:28,167
But Roy said that you were his mother.
1292
01:40:28,242 --> 01:40:30,642
But what if I told him to say so?
1293
01:40:30,911 --> 01:40:34,005
Just in case only mothers
were allowed here tonight.
1294
01:40:34,148 --> 01:40:35,172
And fathers.
1295
01:40:35,249 --> 01:40:37,979
Oh, I'm a mother,
but I've got four of my own.
1296
01:40:38,152 --> 01:40:40,632
- But I'm not his mother.
- Oh, if you're related, then it's...
1297
01:40:40,687 --> 01:40:42,848
He lives with us on the sofa.
1298
01:40:44,291 --> 01:40:46,691
I think he knows who his real mother is,
1299
01:40:46,760 --> 01:40:48,489
but I don't know.
1300
01:40:48,629 --> 01:40:51,962
I never told him. Nobody did.
Nobody would do that to him.
1301
01:40:53,167 --> 01:40:55,158
I think he just picked her out on his own.
1302
01:40:55,235 --> 01:40:57,567
I've seen him looking at her.
1303
01:40:57,838 --> 01:41:00,432
She works that block, pretty much.
1304
01:41:01,175 --> 01:41:03,837
He's had about 10 mothers
between her and me.
1305
01:41:03,911 --> 01:41:05,139
Neighbors.
1306
01:41:05,212 --> 01:41:07,146
He'd stay with a neighbor
until they moved out
1307
01:41:07,214 --> 01:41:11,378
and then he'd just sit on the stoop
and wait for another neighbor to say,
1308
01:41:11,451 --> 01:41:13,214
"Come on in, Roy."
1309
01:41:15,289 --> 01:41:17,723
Can I stay, even though I'm not a parent?
1310
01:41:19,159 --> 01:41:21,389
Of course... Of course you can.
1311
01:41:24,765 --> 01:41:28,929
I've come about that D you gave Roy
at midterms.
1312
01:41:29,736 --> 01:41:32,466
The trouble is, Mrs. Lewes,
1313
01:41:33,073 --> 01:41:35,940
he doesn't pay attention during class.
His mind wanders, you know.
1314
01:41:36,009 --> 01:41:37,636
Go on, say it.
1315
01:41:38,478 --> 01:41:40,639
He goes to sleep.
1316
01:41:42,382 --> 01:41:43,940
He goes to sleep.
1317
01:41:44,151 --> 01:41:46,016
And that's why you gave him a D?
1318
01:41:46,086 --> 01:41:48,646
That's why he gave himself a D.
1319
01:41:51,592 --> 01:41:55,153
Oh, you're pretty. You're very pretty.
1320
01:41:57,030 --> 01:41:59,464
You know, he didn't want me
to come here tonight.
1321
01:41:59,533 --> 01:42:03,060
And when he saw I was really going
to come, he didn't want to come with me.
1322
01:42:03,136 --> 01:42:04,728
But I made him do it.
1323
01:42:04,805 --> 01:42:06,636
Oh, he listens.
1324
01:42:06,707 --> 01:42:09,801
I wanted him to come here
so you could see him go
1325
01:42:10,043 --> 01:42:13,137
to work at 8:30 p.m. In that garage
1326
01:42:13,213 --> 01:42:14,805
all night.
1327
01:42:15,115 --> 01:42:17,310
I wanted you to see him go.
1328
01:42:18,051 --> 01:42:20,519
He brings home all his money.
1329
01:42:21,421 --> 01:42:22,820
How's my five minutes?
1330
01:42:24,524 --> 01:42:25,923
Just begun.
1331
01:42:27,327 --> 01:42:30,023
He wants to be around cars, Roy.
1332
01:42:30,097 --> 01:42:33,726
But he wants to be good at being
around cars, so he wants to graduate.
1333
01:42:34,134 --> 01:42:37,763
I don't see how one follows the other,
but he says it does.
1334
01:42:37,838 --> 01:42:41,296
He's got this made-up mind
about cars and graduation.
1335
01:42:42,376 --> 01:42:44,867
But you don't graduate from nowhere
with D's.
1336
01:42:46,246 --> 01:42:48,714
Well, there are things that he can do
for extra credit.
1337
01:42:48,782 --> 01:42:50,340
Now I'm... I will help him.
1338
01:42:50,417 --> 01:42:54,547
What good is English to him when all
he wants to do is to be around cars?
1339
01:42:56,657 --> 01:43:00,889
He's not like... Like other kids
to look at them and drive them.
1340
01:43:01,428 --> 01:43:05,057
He wants to work around cars.
1341
01:43:05,132 --> 01:43:07,293
What good is English to him?
1342
01:43:08,535 --> 01:43:11,902
If he wants to graduate,
it must be important to him.
1343
01:43:12,940 --> 01:43:14,635
Then why not pass him on?
1344
01:43:14,708 --> 01:43:16,300
It's no skin off your pretty nose.
1345
01:43:16,376 --> 01:43:17,673
Miss Barrett.
1346
01:43:17,744 --> 01:43:22,204
Miss Barrett, I believe. I'm Alberta Kagan,
mother of Harry A. Kagan,
1347
01:43:22,349 --> 01:43:24,647
President of the General Organization.
1348
01:43:24,718 --> 01:43:27,915
Oh, I hope I'm not interrupting.
1349
01:43:28,121 --> 01:43:30,214
No, ma'am, I'm through.
1350
01:43:30,657 --> 01:43:32,522
Mrs. Lewes, please sit down.
1351
01:43:34,094 --> 01:43:36,119
I won't keep you a minute, Miss Barrett.
1352
01:43:36,196 --> 01:43:39,290
I just wanted to give myself the pleasure
of making the acquaintance
1353
01:43:39,366 --> 01:43:41,630
of such a lovely teacher like yourself.
1354
01:43:42,436 --> 01:43:46,805
A book like Silas Marner can mean
a lot to a boy like Rusty, Mr. O'Brien,
1355
01:43:46,873 --> 01:43:48,602
even if it was written by a woman.
1356
01:43:48,675 --> 01:43:53,510
It's about people's responsibility
to one another and parental love.
1357
01:43:53,780 --> 01:43:56,271
His mother already gave him
too much parental love.
1358
01:43:58,218 --> 01:44:00,652
The story can help him understand
1359
01:44:02,055 --> 01:44:05,616
such things from an adult point of view
rather than a child's point of view.
1360
01:44:05,692 --> 01:44:08,058
It can help prepare him to become a man.
1361
01:44:08,128 --> 01:44:10,153
You think he's not a man?
1362
01:44:10,530 --> 01:44:13,499
For example,
when we finish reading the book,
1363
01:44:13,567 --> 01:44:15,797
we are going to improvise a trial.
1364
01:44:15,869 --> 01:44:19,236
And Rusty...
Rusty is going to be the defendant.
1365
01:44:19,606 --> 01:44:23,975
Through the story, he will know
what it means to stand up for himself.
1366
01:44:24,344 --> 01:44:27,142
They tried to teach him self-defense
at the youth center.
1367
01:44:27,781 --> 01:44:30,045
He came home.
1368
01:44:31,685 --> 01:44:35,883
I'm... I'm not talking about
that kind of self-defense.
1369
01:44:37,657 --> 01:44:39,557
Yeah.
1370
01:44:39,626 --> 01:44:43,960
Well, I just wanted to see
what was going on in here.
1371
01:45:20,267 --> 01:45:21,894
Joe?
1372
01:45:24,204 --> 01:45:26,638
Did you bring your parents to see me?
1373
01:45:34,247 --> 01:45:36,511
Joe, it's 10:30.
1374
01:45:47,594 --> 01:45:49,425
Are you in trouble?
1375
01:46:02,075 --> 01:46:03,770
Came for our talk.
1376
01:46:12,352 --> 01:46:15,651
No, I meant after school.
1377
01:46:16,389 --> 01:46:18,220
This is after school.
1378
01:46:24,498 --> 01:46:27,797
Well, we're not supposed
to be in the building now.
1379
01:46:32,439 --> 01:46:34,839
You wanna go someplace else?
1380
01:46:36,843 --> 01:46:38,572
I want you to go home.
1381
01:46:41,548 --> 01:46:42,981
Look, I'm here.
1382
01:46:44,050 --> 01:46:46,746
Isn't that what you wanted?
1383
01:46:51,491 --> 01:46:54,790
Custodian will be checking the rooms
in a minute.
1384
01:47:04,004 --> 01:47:06,495
You want it in the dark?
1385
01:47:13,213 --> 01:47:14,475
Joe.
1386
01:47:15,215 --> 01:47:17,706
Joe, please, turn on the lights.
1387
01:47:25,292 --> 01:47:27,590
What is it, Teach?
1388
01:47:28,728 --> 01:47:30,696
Ever since the first day of school,
1389
01:47:31,831 --> 01:47:35,824
defending me with McHabe, breaking
rules for me, getting into trouble.
1390
01:47:37,871 --> 01:47:40,738
Maybe I'm what they call
a low under-achiever.
1391
01:47:42,075 --> 01:47:44,566
Took me long to figure it out.
1392
01:47:44,644 --> 01:47:46,942
But I figured it out.
1393
01:47:52,719 --> 01:47:54,311
Oh, Joe.
1394
01:47:55,555 --> 01:47:58,752
Is that the only reason you can think of?
1395
01:47:58,858 --> 01:48:00,325
What else?
1396
01:48:00,827 --> 01:48:04,957
Always wanting to see me
after school, alone.
1397
01:48:05,565 --> 01:48:07,430
Well, we're alone now.
1398
01:48:23,083 --> 01:48:25,745
- Finally got to me, Teach.
- No.
1399
01:48:26,519 --> 01:48:29,010
Joe, oh, Joe, no.
1400
01:49:04,357 --> 01:49:07,190
I've come to submit my resignation,
Dr. Bester.
1401
01:49:10,830 --> 01:49:13,264
On the basis
of less than a term's experience?
1402
01:49:13,333 --> 01:49:16,131
I will finish out the term, of course.
1403
01:49:22,542 --> 01:49:26,103
Do you think you've given us
a fair chance, Miss Barrett?
1404
01:49:26,646 --> 01:49:29,843
I have given myself a fair chance,
in and out of the classroom.
1405
01:49:29,916 --> 01:49:32,282
I have used everything I ever learned,
1406
01:49:32,452 --> 01:49:35,546
every instinct I have
or thought I had about teaching.
1407
01:49:35,855 --> 01:49:39,814
And you've decided
you're not cut out to be a teacher.
1408
01:49:40,593 --> 01:49:41,924
Not here.
1409
01:49:45,865 --> 01:49:49,357
You know, when I visited your class,
1410
01:49:49,436 --> 01:49:52,234
I did notice certain deficiencies
in your methods,
1411
01:49:52,639 --> 01:49:55,130
but I put them down to inexperience,
1412
01:49:56,142 --> 01:49:59,669
because you are a born teacher,
Miss Barrett.
1413
01:50:01,281 --> 01:50:02,281
Not here.
1414
01:50:02,515 --> 01:50:05,348
You say that as if that's your point.
1415
01:50:05,752 --> 01:50:08,220
There are better schools, we all know.
1416
01:50:08,488 --> 01:50:10,820
But there are worse.
1417
01:50:10,890 --> 01:50:15,520
And whatever waste, stupidity,
ineptitude you've found,
1418
01:50:16,429 --> 01:50:19,830
whatever problems and frustrations
of teachers and pupils,
1419
01:50:19,899 --> 01:50:24,302
something very exciting is going on,
even here.
1420
01:50:24,504 --> 01:50:27,667
In each of the classrooms, on each
of the floors, all at the same time,
1421
01:50:27,741 --> 01:50:29,675
education is going on.
1422
01:50:30,310 --> 01:50:33,575
In some form or other, for all its abuses,
1423
01:50:34,047 --> 01:50:36,982
young people are being exposed
to education.
1424
01:50:38,284 --> 01:50:39,615
Even here.
1425
01:50:43,323 --> 01:50:47,350
A teacher should be able to get through
to her students,
1426
01:50:47,594 --> 01:50:48,891
even here.
1427
01:50:51,898 --> 01:50:52,898
Very well.
1428
01:50:54,701 --> 01:50:56,896
Write a letter to the Board of Education.
1429
01:50:56,970 --> 01:50:59,803
They'll send you the proper form
for resignation.
1430
01:51:01,307 --> 01:51:03,241
Thank you, Dr. Bester.
1431
01:51:18,324 --> 01:51:20,952
Sylvia, Sylvia!
1432
01:51:31,604 --> 01:51:34,617
I suppose you're ticking off the number
of times you have left to walk this block.
1433
01:51:34,641 --> 01:51:36,541
Thirty-two.
1434
01:51:36,609 --> 01:51:37,974
Hi, Eddie.
1435
01:51:39,212 --> 01:51:41,043
And then what?
1436
01:51:41,114 --> 01:51:44,311
I've made application
to several private schools.
1437
01:51:44,384 --> 01:51:46,375
Well, Joe Ferone never came back, did he?
1438
01:51:47,220 --> 01:51:49,518
One or two
have expressed interest already.
1439
01:51:49,722 --> 01:51:51,587
Oh, you'll find some place
1440
01:51:52,192 --> 01:51:55,958
with white columns and green lawns
and high tuition.
1441
01:51:56,129 --> 01:51:59,257
And you'll sit in a quiet room
1442
01:51:59,532 --> 01:52:02,626
with eight or 10 well-dressed students,
teaching Chaucer.
1443
01:52:02,836 --> 01:52:04,861
In Old English, I'd dare say.
1444
01:52:05,205 --> 01:52:09,005
And they'll be so polite,
they'll let you love them, without risk.
1445
01:52:19,786 --> 01:52:21,014
Miss Finch.
1446
01:52:22,055 --> 01:52:24,353
They keep sending me retirement forms.
1447
01:52:24,424 --> 01:52:27,416
What I need is a resignation form.
1448
01:52:29,462 --> 01:52:31,430
They even make it hard for you to give up.
1449
01:52:31,498 --> 01:52:34,194
Maybe you should give up giving up.
1450
01:52:39,005 --> 01:52:40,005
Syl.
1451
01:52:43,209 --> 01:52:46,337
The Teacher's Interest Committee
is planning a gala luncheon
1452
01:52:46,412 --> 01:52:48,471
on the last day of school before Christmas.
1453
01:52:48,548 --> 01:52:51,210
- Henrietta, are you all right?
- Oh, Syl.
1454
01:52:54,020 --> 01:52:55,954
Bob Whiteside.
1455
01:52:56,022 --> 01:52:58,490
I went into the book room
yesterday afternoon late.
1456
01:52:58,558 --> 01:53:00,583
I just opened the door.
1457
01:53:00,660 --> 01:53:03,288
My Bob Whiteside with Linda Rosen.
1458
01:53:03,830 --> 01:53:08,665
Your Linda Rosen. Why, he won the essay
contest, and she can't even spell.
1459
01:53:09,936 --> 01:53:14,134
Do you want the chicken patty
with the cream sauce or fillet of sole?
1460
01:53:15,275 --> 01:53:17,266
- Patty.
- Patty.
1461
01:53:22,682 --> 01:53:25,082
Look at this lvanhoe, Mr. McHabe.
1462
01:53:26,486 --> 01:53:27,919
Gutted.
1463
01:53:27,987 --> 01:53:30,649
It's been used to carry something
in and out of this building.
1464
01:53:30,757 --> 01:53:32,987
Something filthy, you can be sure.
1465
01:53:33,059 --> 01:53:36,119
Who would dare to do that to lvanhoe?
1466
01:53:40,033 --> 01:53:43,560
Miss Barrett, you said we could
turn in extra-credit book reports,
1467
01:53:43,770 --> 01:53:46,637
and due to midterms and horsing
around, I need that "E" credit.
1468
01:53:46,739 --> 01:53:51,335
So here's a myth report, Miss Barrett,
about Venus and Adonis. Funny, huh?
1469
01:53:52,045 --> 01:53:53,569
Thank you, Lou.
1470
01:53:54,514 --> 01:53:56,641
You gotta pass me on, Miss Barrett.
1471
01:53:56,716 --> 01:53:58,911
It's just my spelling that keeps me back.
1472
01:53:59,485 --> 01:54:02,113
At home, they won't let me drop out.
1473
01:54:02,589 --> 01:54:04,454
Class, class, please.
1474
01:54:04,524 --> 01:54:06,219
Class, pay attention.
1475
01:54:06,359 --> 01:54:07,359
Class.
1476
01:54:07,660 --> 01:54:10,458
Come on now, we don't have
all sorts of time, class, please!
1477
01:54:11,431 --> 01:54:15,492
Now, boys, Herbie, Ronnie, please.
Now, listen.
1478
01:54:15,802 --> 01:54:18,464
The jury pool sits down in the auditorium.
1479
01:54:18,538 --> 01:54:22,099
Will you please take your seats there
until you're called for examination?
1480
01:54:22,175 --> 01:54:24,370
Now, go quickly and go quietly.
1481
01:54:24,777 --> 01:54:25,777
Quietly.
1482
01:54:27,447 --> 01:54:29,574
Quietly. Listen to your teacher, now.
1483
01:54:29,816 --> 01:54:33,183
Prosecuting... Prosecuting attorney
sits here.
1484
01:54:33,252 --> 01:54:35,982
Lou? Lou. You there.
1485
01:54:37,156 --> 01:54:39,317
The plaintiff here. Wooley, right here.
1486
01:54:39,392 --> 01:54:41,223
Now, who's my defendant?
1487
01:54:41,294 --> 01:54:42,871
- Where's my defendant?
- That's me, Miss Barrett.
1488
01:54:42,895 --> 01:54:45,489
Rusty, defense attorney.
1489
01:54:45,565 --> 01:54:49,433
Well, Harry, stop trying to influence
the witnesses ahead of time,
1490
01:54:49,736 --> 01:54:52,136
and take your seat
next to your client, please.
1491
01:54:53,506 --> 01:54:56,942
Now the... The court clerk sits in here.
1492
01:54:58,077 --> 01:54:59,635
Gary, that's you. Right down here.
1493
01:54:59,712 --> 01:55:01,757
Don't look so worried.
All you have to do is write down
1494
01:55:01,781 --> 01:55:05,842
everything that's said and repeat it back
if the judge asks you to.
1495
01:55:06,552 --> 01:55:08,918
Now, let's see. My witnesses.
1496
01:55:09,088 --> 01:55:10,885
Witnesses will sit along here.
1497
01:55:10,957 --> 01:55:14,256
Girls, everybody along here,
we'll pretend as if there's a railing.
1498
01:55:14,661 --> 01:55:17,129
Miss Barrett, I'm not prepared to testify.
1499
01:55:17,230 --> 01:55:19,596
Well, in that case,
1500
01:55:19,732 --> 01:55:25,466
we'll just have to have the two attorneys
examine you as a hostile witness.
1501
01:55:26,506 --> 01:55:27,506
Lou.
1502
01:55:27,940 --> 01:55:29,874
Harry, take a note on that, now.
1503
01:55:29,942 --> 01:55:32,154
Meanwhile, Lennie, will you just take
your place with the others?
1504
01:55:32,178 --> 01:55:34,612
Now, let's see, what else... Oh, the judge.
1505
01:55:36,582 --> 01:55:39,915
Whom did I... Did I appoint judge?
Doesn't anyone remember?
1506
01:55:39,986 --> 01:55:42,386
I think it was Jose Rodriguez,
Miss Barrett.
1507
01:55:42,488 --> 01:55:45,184
Yes, it was Jose. Now where...
I wonder where...
1508
01:55:45,258 --> 01:55:46,748
Where is Jose?
1509
01:55:46,859 --> 01:55:51,262
Well, knowing the fellow only slightly as I
do, in which case I'm sure I'm not alone,
1510
01:55:51,330 --> 01:55:53,958
I would think he probably
got frightened at the last moment.
1511
01:55:54,033 --> 01:55:56,467
Cold feet!
1512
01:55:57,036 --> 01:55:58,799
Lou, Lou.
1513
01:55:59,005 --> 01:56:01,405
Enough is enough. Come on, sit down.
1514
01:56:01,974 --> 01:56:05,603
In that case, I'm going to have
to appoint another judge.
1515
01:56:05,678 --> 01:56:08,476
Now, do I have any volunteers?
1516
01:56:08,648 --> 01:56:09,842
No?
1517
01:56:19,025 --> 01:56:21,084
Class, class.
1518
01:56:29,235 --> 01:56:30,725
You're late, Jose.
1519
01:56:31,904 --> 01:56:35,738
Members of the court are supposed
to address the judge as Your Honor.
1520
01:56:35,808 --> 01:56:37,833
Even teachers.
1521
01:56:41,080 --> 01:56:43,640
Well, we'd almost given you up,
Your Honor.
1522
01:57:04,737 --> 01:57:07,763
The judge is supposed to be the last one
to enter the court.
1523
01:57:07,840 --> 01:57:09,933
He don't need no late pass.
1524
01:57:27,660 --> 01:57:29,992
Court clerk's supposed to say
they gotta rise.
1525
01:57:30,062 --> 01:57:32,053
He says you gotta get up.
1526
01:57:34,767 --> 01:57:37,463
The judge says the court clerk says.
1527
01:57:37,537 --> 01:57:39,562
The judge says I say.
1528
01:57:46,913 --> 01:57:48,210
You, too.
1529
01:57:53,853 --> 01:57:56,549
This here court is now in session.
1530
01:58:05,565 --> 01:58:08,659
The case of Silas Marner
versus Godfrey Cass
1531
01:58:09,035 --> 01:58:12,801
for the custody of the child
known as Eppie, by George Eliot.
1532
01:58:16,843 --> 01:58:18,435
I object, Your Honor, I object.
1533
01:58:18,511 --> 01:58:19,569
Objection overruled!
1534
01:58:19,645 --> 01:58:22,512
Your Honor's overruled every objection
this defense has made.
1535
01:58:22,648 --> 01:58:23,808
Maybe I'm stupid,
1536
01:58:23,883 --> 01:58:25,748
but I'm the judge and you gotta listen.
1537
01:58:25,818 --> 01:58:29,777
I challenge Your Honor to
your knowledge of court procedure.
1538
01:58:29,922 --> 01:58:32,516
I ought to know, I been.
1539
01:58:38,197 --> 01:58:42,429
Quiet. This here court will get quiet,
or you'll be charged with contempt.
1540
01:58:46,105 --> 01:58:49,336
Because the bell is about to ring, it would
be a waste of the taxpayers' money
1541
01:58:49,408 --> 01:58:51,399
to call the next witness.
1542
01:58:51,944 --> 01:58:55,311
Members of the jury are instructed
not to discuss the details of the case
1543
01:58:55,381 --> 01:58:58,441
in any manner, ways, means,
shape or form.
1544
01:58:58,684 --> 01:59:02,085
Members of the court are to leave
in an orderly fashion by ones and twos,
1545
01:59:02,154 --> 01:59:06,056
with no talking and to proceed
to their next class without delay.
1546
01:59:06,592 --> 01:59:10,358
This court is adjourned
until the same time tomorrow morning.
1547
01:59:18,070 --> 01:59:19,662
Hey, we go to lunch?
1548
01:59:35,588 --> 01:59:36,953
Miss Barrett.
1549
01:59:41,794 --> 01:59:44,160
I'm sorry you're leaving us.
1550
01:59:45,031 --> 01:59:47,591
And I wish you happiness
in your new school.
1551
01:59:52,939 --> 01:59:55,066
Miss Barrett...
1552
01:59:55,775 --> 01:59:57,106
I'm Me.
1553
02:00:00,513 --> 02:00:03,971
In the suggestion box, I'm Me.
1554
02:00:10,623 --> 02:00:13,888
Thank you for telling me, Jose.
And thank you.
1555
02:00:17,330 --> 02:00:20,424
I just wanted you to know.
1556
02:00:22,401 --> 02:00:26,064
I think your English this term
was the greatest subject I ever had.
1557
02:00:58,604 --> 02:01:01,198
Oh, Miss Barrett, Miss Barrett!
1558
02:01:04,176 --> 02:01:06,974
Your resignation form has come through.
1559
02:01:11,617 --> 02:01:13,847
Fill it out now and return it to me.
1560
02:01:13,919 --> 02:01:15,318
Later on, there'll be other forms.
1561
02:01:15,388 --> 02:01:18,687
And your keys, don't lose any of your keys.
1562
02:01:27,900 --> 02:01:31,961
If I fill this out I will be late
for my next class, Miss Finch.
1563
02:01:34,974 --> 02:01:37,814
Oh, Miss Barrett, it has come to
my attention that one of your students,
1564
02:01:37,843 --> 02:01:41,870
namely Jose Rodriguez, has pilfered
a graduation robe and mortarboard
1565
02:01:41,947 --> 02:01:44,006
from the supply room.
1566
02:02:19,251 --> 02:02:20,548
Hi, Teach.
1567
02:02:20,953 --> 02:02:21,953
Hi, Pupe.
1568
02:03:37,663 --> 02:03:38,663
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