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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 educationhas been planned and geared
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to arm you and prepare you
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to function as matureand thinking citizens,
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capable of shoulderingthe 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 objectivesset forth,
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for in the miniature democracyof 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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00:22:28,530 --> 00:22:32,466
A blue Pontiac parked
in front of the school has been overturned.
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00:22:33,101 --> 00:22:35,626
Anybody having knowledge
of the perpetrators,
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00:22:35,704 --> 00:22:39,071
please report to me
directly after assembly.
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00:24:03,992 --> 00:24:04,981
Hey!
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Silence while exiting!
Silence while exiting!
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00:24:20,142 --> 00:24:22,303
Well, she...
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Mr. Edmund Green
comes to our Science Department
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after 10 years at South Park High School,
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extensive experience in the so-called
problem-area schools
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such as Calvin Coolidge,
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and an impressive war record
in the military police.
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00:24:41,263 --> 00:24:42,321
He could use that.
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00:24:42,397 --> 00:24:45,195
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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00:25:05,487 --> 00:25:07,785
She's to be commended for her courage.
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Miss Barrett.
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00:25:12,994 --> 00:25:14,518
Thank you. I...
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00:25:14,963 --> 00:25:18,364
I can't say how happy I am to be here.
Thank you.
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00:25:22,304 --> 00:25:24,534
- The first item on the agenda...
- Dr. Bester.
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00:25:25,407 --> 00:25:31,107
Dr. Bester, there were certain
urgent problems left over from last term.
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00:25:31,346 --> 00:25:35,043
Agreed. The teaching load,
facilities, drop-outs,
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00:25:35,350 --> 00:25:37,818
and the new building, Dr. Bester.
289
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,314
What about the new building?
290
00:25:40,522 --> 00:25:43,218
Well, I brought along
all the blueprints again.
291
00:25:44,192 --> 00:25:46,683
- To give us heart.
- We're tired of blueprints.
292
00:25:46,761 --> 00:25:49,229
It's been six years now. We're losing heart.
293
00:25:49,297 --> 00:25:50,355
Hear, hear!
294
00:25:50,432 --> 00:25:52,229
I didn't see who said that.
295
00:25:53,201 --> 00:25:54,930
- Oh, yes, Miss Pastorfield.
- Yeah.
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00:25:55,437 --> 00:25:57,302
Well, if you'll stop by
at the end of this meeting,
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00:25:57,372 --> 00:26:01,308
I'll gladly accept your check for $7,500,000.
298
00:26:03,411 --> 00:26:06,107
Miss Gordon and Mr. Osborne
have the floor.
299
00:26:06,881 --> 00:26:08,314
Who'll speak first?
300
00:26:08,383 --> 00:26:12,217
Mr. Osborne and I, being floaters,
share Room 441.
301
00:26:12,454 --> 00:26:15,821
Mr. Osborne insists on putting his things
in the left-hand drawer of the desk,
302
00:26:15,890 --> 00:26:18,256
- which is my drawer and I...
- I beg to differ with Miss Gordon.
303
00:26:18,326 --> 00:26:20,226
The left-hand desk drawer is my drawer.
304
00:26:20,295 --> 00:26:22,286
- Since when?
- Since four years ago!
305
00:26:22,364 --> 00:26:25,891
All right. All right. May I suggest
that the Grievance Committee
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00:26:25,967 --> 00:26:29,198
on Rotation of Teachers
to More Equitable Room Assignments
307
00:26:29,271 --> 00:26:31,739
appoint a sub-committee
to look into the matter.
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00:26:31,806 --> 00:26:35,367
- You're next on the agenda, Mrs. Wolf.
- Thank you.
309
00:26:36,077 --> 00:26:38,545
When returning books to the library,
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00:26:38,713 --> 00:26:41,978
students must put them back
on the shelf straight.
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00:26:42,050 --> 00:26:45,679
I want those books in their right places
with their edges even.
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00:26:45,754 --> 00:26:48,154
- I think it's very important...
- Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Wolf.
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00:26:48,223 --> 00:26:51,351
Dr. Bester, now that
reading from the Bible
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00:26:51,426 --> 00:26:53,394
has been declared unconstitutional,
315
00:26:53,461 --> 00:26:56,328
is there any objection
to a moment of silent prayer?
316
00:26:56,398 --> 00:26:58,423
It's all right, I understand,
317
00:26:59,067 --> 00:27:01,297
if the word "prayer" is not used
318
00:27:01,703 --> 00:27:03,500
and if the lips don't move.
319
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,574
Dr. Bester, by law a faculty conference
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00:27:07,642 --> 00:27:10,167
only has to last 60 minutes
which are now up.
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00:27:10,245 --> 00:27:12,179
Now, I suggest
in view of the subway rush...
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00:27:12,247 --> 00:27:14,772
Yes. I'm afraid a discussion
of cafeteria conditions
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00:27:14,849 --> 00:27:17,044
will have to be jettisoned until next week.
324
00:27:17,118 --> 00:27:18,983
- Will someone move for adjournment?
- So moved.
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00:27:19,054 --> 00:27:20,282
Meeting is adjourned.
326
00:28:05,467 --> 00:28:07,025
Morning, Miss Finch.
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00:28:07,302 --> 00:28:09,463
Here are my daily attendance sheets,
328
00:28:09,604 --> 00:28:13,973
my absentee cards,
my transcripts for transfers,
329
00:28:14,409 --> 00:28:18,311
my transportation cards,
and my H-level report.
330
00:29:47,969 --> 00:29:50,233
Since we are unable to begin the term
with the assigned books,
331
00:29:50,305 --> 00:29:54,503
I thought we might spend this first class
in an open discussion about books.
332
00:29:54,876 --> 00:29:57,344
Why we read them
and what they mean to us.
333
00:30:01,449 --> 00:30:02,814
Herbert Henry.
334
00:30:04,018 --> 00:30:06,077
I didn't know we was gonna have a quiz.
335
00:30:06,154 --> 00:30:08,918
- I didn't study for it.
- Well, this is not a quiz.
336
00:30:08,990 --> 00:30:11,390
Well, whatever it is, I didn't study up.
337
00:30:11,459 --> 00:30:15,054
Well, I'm not asking you to study up,
I'm asking you to think.
338
00:30:15,129 --> 00:30:16,858
- Miss Barrett.
- Yes. Your name, please.
339
00:30:16,931 --> 00:30:19,161
Harry A. Kagan,
newly-nominated candidate
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00:30:19,234 --> 00:30:21,134
- for President of General Organization.
- Sit down.
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00:30:21,202 --> 00:30:23,727
In answer to your
very interesting question,
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00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:27,807
last term, for example,
we studied myths and their meanings
343
00:30:28,042 --> 00:30:30,442
to comprehend in a superb fashion
344
00:30:30,778 --> 00:30:34,373
the origins of many of the idiosyncrasies
of our present language.
345
00:30:34,516 --> 00:30:37,917
Throughout the decades, constant
references to mythological occurrences
346
00:30:37,986 --> 00:30:41,649
have spawned such sparkling gems
as "By Jove" and "Jumping Jupiter."
347
00:30:41,723 --> 00:30:44,521
- Jumping Jupiter.
- Settle down. Thank you, Harry.
348
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,960
You're doing a very good job, Miss Barrett.
Keep it up.
349
00:30:48,229 --> 00:30:49,491
Class, please.
350
00:30:50,999 --> 00:30:53,058
Jose Rodriguez.
351
00:30:59,774 --> 00:31:01,036
Where is Jose?
352
00:31:05,647 --> 00:31:08,775
Do you have anything
you want to say to the class, Jose?
353
00:31:10,752 --> 00:31:12,185
- Miss Barrett! Miss Barrett!
- Yes.
354
00:31:12,253 --> 00:31:14,915
I think Alice Blake
has the one true answer.
355
00:31:16,190 --> 00:31:18,181
Well, will you tell the class, Alice?
356
00:31:22,063 --> 00:31:25,726
Because just about all books
are based on love, that's why.
357
00:31:27,602 --> 00:31:30,400
All right, class, please. Class.
358
00:31:32,941 --> 00:31:35,136
Is that the only reason that we read?
359
00:31:37,278 --> 00:31:39,712
For instance, what about this? Algebra.
360
00:31:40,882 --> 00:31:42,611
There is no love in that.
361
00:31:44,719 --> 00:31:45,913
Well, Alice?
362
00:31:46,187 --> 00:31:48,178
You're wearing contact lenses?
363
00:31:50,925 --> 00:31:53,393
Suppose we turn
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00:31:54,028 --> 00:31:56,496
to one of our country's most famous poets
365
00:31:56,564 --> 00:32:00,625
and see how she expresses herself
about books.
366
00:32:07,108 --> 00:32:08,700
Emily
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00:32:11,613 --> 00:32:13,012
Dickinson,
368
00:32:15,383 --> 00:32:16,748
1830,
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00:32:17,752 --> 00:32:19,845
1886.
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00:32:19,921 --> 00:32:23,755
- Right here.
- All right. That's it. Please!
371
00:32:24,158 --> 00:32:27,252
In eight short lines she sums up
all the beauty
372
00:32:27,328 --> 00:32:30,491
and adventure that can be found
in reading books,
373
00:32:31,766 --> 00:32:34,132
"...to take us lands away
374
00:32:34,636 --> 00:32:38,697
"This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toil"
375
00:32:39,374 --> 00:32:42,172
Now, do you begin to see
the trend of her thoughts?
376
00:32:42,243 --> 00:32:43,642
Yeah. Yeah.
377
00:32:43,711 --> 00:32:47,613
All right.
Let's examine the poem line by line.
378
00:32:49,217 --> 00:32:50,844
It begins,
379
00:32:51,986 --> 00:32:58,414
"There is no frigate..."
380
00:33:08,770 --> 00:33:11,671
Class. Class! Please.
381
00:33:23,518 --> 00:33:27,010
Next time try,
"There is no steamship like a book."
382
00:33:28,322 --> 00:33:30,381
I guess everybody's heard
about that by now, haven't they?
383
00:33:30,458 --> 00:33:35,088
Sorry, just trying to,
in quotes, "Cheer up Miss Barrett."
384
00:33:35,163 --> 00:33:36,494
Thank you.
385
00:33:38,332 --> 00:33:41,028
You know, if you take
your first failure so badly,
386
00:33:41,102 --> 00:33:43,070
just think what your hundredth
is going to do to you.
387
00:33:43,137 --> 00:33:46,334
I came here to teach, or I thought I did.
388
00:33:46,407 --> 00:33:49,774
I thought that was what I spent
the last six years preparing for.
389
00:33:49,844 --> 00:33:53,575
Back home,
I used to like to stay after school.
390
00:33:54,749 --> 00:33:57,616
That teacher up there
was giving me something.
391
00:33:58,152 --> 00:34:03,283
Sharing something
she had learned, felt. Teaching.
392
00:34:05,193 --> 00:34:08,924
And what's the first thing I find
when I come to a school of my own?
393
00:34:08,996 --> 00:34:11,226
There is no time for teaching.
394
00:34:12,233 --> 00:34:18,103
There's only time for memos,
directives, circulars,
395
00:34:18,673 --> 00:34:22,666
letters, notices, forms, records, blanks.
396
00:34:22,877 --> 00:34:26,074
And keys. Look what they've given me.
397
00:34:28,049 --> 00:34:34,181
Room key, lavatory key, locker key.
398
00:34:39,527 --> 00:34:40,926
Book room.
399
00:34:42,029 --> 00:34:45,760
Well, at least there are such things,
but this.
400
00:34:47,401 --> 00:34:51,132
This one is for my desk drawer,
and there is no desk drawer.
401
00:34:52,507 --> 00:34:55,943
You know, I bet you did
you master's essay on Chaucer.
402
00:34:58,846 --> 00:35:00,143
How did you guess?
403
00:35:00,214 --> 00:35:06,153
You and the Clerk of Oxenford,
"Gladly would he learn and gladly teach."
404
00:35:09,390 --> 00:35:14,851
When I finally get the chance,
my first few precious minutes
405
00:35:16,564 --> 00:35:20,295
to talk to them about something
I want them to understand,
406
00:35:20,368 --> 00:35:23,531
and I find I am some kind of an enemy.
407
00:35:23,938 --> 00:35:26,998
The butt of some enormous joke.
408
00:35:27,508 --> 00:35:29,806
The ammunition that they have.
409
00:35:30,878 --> 00:35:34,336
In my first English class, many years ago,
I quoted from Channing,
410
00:35:34,415 --> 00:35:39,114
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy
intercourse with superior minds."
411
00:35:43,624 --> 00:35:45,524
What kind of thing do you write?
412
00:35:45,593 --> 00:35:47,925
Well, I've just finished the first chapter
of a novel
413
00:35:47,995 --> 00:35:52,659
about a nuclear physicist marooned
on a peninsula, Kamchatka.
414
00:35:54,035 --> 00:35:56,128
That's a far cry from Calvin Coolidge.
415
00:35:56,204 --> 00:35:58,399
I know, a far, far cry.
416
00:35:59,473 --> 00:36:01,668
There's no keys in Kamchatka.
417
00:36:01,943 --> 00:36:07,540
No lockers. No book rooms
and probably no lavatories.
418
00:36:09,450 --> 00:36:11,680
Well, but you and I are here.
419
00:36:11,786 --> 00:36:14,846
Yeah, and there'll come a time
when you'll need a drink
420
00:36:14,922 --> 00:36:18,085
for more cheering up.
421
00:36:18,426 --> 00:36:20,417
Or dinner, sometime?
422
00:36:20,928 --> 00:36:23,021
All right. I would like that.
423
00:36:23,097 --> 00:36:24,291
Good.
424
00:36:26,367 --> 00:36:28,665
Hello, Paul. Hello, Sylvia.
425
00:36:35,810 --> 00:36:38,301
Miss Barrett, step in here, please.
426
00:36:39,580 --> 00:36:41,775
You wait. I'll see you next.
427
00:36:44,886 --> 00:36:46,478
Was this boy in your English class today?
428
00:36:46,554 --> 00:36:48,249
I don't know.
I would have to check my attendance...
429
00:36:48,322 --> 00:36:49,983
Don't bother. He wasn't.
430
00:36:50,057 --> 00:36:52,753
During that period
he was found loitering near 408
431
00:36:52,827 --> 00:36:54,590
where a wallet has been reported missing.
432
00:36:54,662 --> 00:36:57,187
You should have sent in
a cutting slip at once.
433
00:36:57,265 --> 00:36:59,961
Well, there wasn't time.
Mrs. Wolf sent for the library blacklist
434
00:37:00,034 --> 00:37:02,298
and the nurse sent
for the dental blacklist...
435
00:37:02,370 --> 00:37:05,066
Has he given you any trouble
of any other kind?
436
00:37:05,139 --> 00:37:06,606
I don't know what you mean by trouble.
437
00:37:06,674 --> 00:37:09,575
- Trouble. Foul language. Violence.
- No, sir.
438
00:37:10,678 --> 00:37:12,578
Don't be scared of him, Miss Barrett.
439
00:37:12,813 --> 00:37:14,303
I'm just trying to stick to the truth.
440
00:37:14,382 --> 00:37:17,943
There has been no violence
and no foul language.
441
00:37:18,286 --> 00:37:21,449
I hope you haven't got any ideas
about communicating with him,
442
00:37:21,522 --> 00:37:24,013
or understanding him,
or getting through to him.
443
00:37:24,091 --> 00:37:26,059
Did he steal the wallet?
444
00:37:26,227 --> 00:37:27,888
You can go.
445
00:37:35,369 --> 00:37:37,701
Then he didn't steal the wallet.
446
00:37:37,772 --> 00:37:41,435
It has also come to my attention
that you neglected to fill out form B-221.
447
00:37:41,509 --> 00:37:43,272
Accident report
of a fall incurred by a student
448
00:37:43,344 --> 00:37:46,404
in your home room yesterday,
and you neglected to turn in a report
449
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,143
on the physical condition of your room
and a summary of your pupil load.
450
00:37:50,217 --> 00:37:53,345
My pupil load is 44 and two-fifths.
451
00:37:53,421 --> 00:37:55,446
Three-fifths students per class.
452
00:37:55,523 --> 00:37:58,651
I believe the directive
says it should be 33, and let me...
453
00:37:58,726 --> 00:38:02,958
Let me see, I just couldn't seem to find
any accidents forms B-221.
454
00:38:03,030 --> 00:38:05,760
I have a broken window
in the back of my classroom,
455
00:38:05,833 --> 00:38:08,563
and I need two more chairs. Three.
456
00:38:08,636 --> 00:38:11,696
And the custodian simply answers,
"There is no one down here."
457
00:38:11,772 --> 00:38:14,570
Well, my pupil load, Miss Barrett,
is 3000 students,
458
00:38:14,642 --> 00:38:16,769
6000 parents, 150 teachers,
459
00:38:16,844 --> 00:38:18,903
25 members of the building staff.
460
00:38:18,980 --> 00:38:20,971
1104, please.
461
00:38:21,148 --> 00:38:23,810
An upset neighborhood,
an angry police department
462
00:38:23,884 --> 00:38:26,352
and the entire board of education.
463
00:38:27,054 --> 00:38:29,887
- Let it be a challenge to you, huh?
- Thank you.
464
00:38:30,725 --> 00:38:33,091
1104. Four. Yeah.
465
00:38:59,387 --> 00:39:02,322
Hey, Teach. Hey.
466
00:39:13,567 --> 00:39:14,591
Come on, lady.
467
00:39:14,668 --> 00:39:16,363
- I like you.
- Yeah.
468
00:39:22,476 --> 00:39:25,036
Don't walk this block alone, Teach.
469
00:39:39,126 --> 00:39:43,290
Will the person or persons
who took my desk blotter please return it?
470
00:39:43,364 --> 00:39:45,662
There will be no questions asked.
471
00:39:45,733 --> 00:39:48,167
I just want my desk blotter back.
472
00:39:49,303 --> 00:39:54,206
Now, for our first oral book report
of the term,
473
00:39:54,475 --> 00:39:59,174
we will begin with Danny, Danny Harrigan.
474
00:40:00,514 --> 00:40:02,482
I'm not prepared, Miss Barrett.
475
00:40:02,550 --> 00:40:05,815
Why aren't you prepared, Danny?
What's your excuse?
476
00:40:15,629 --> 00:40:17,460
I had to get married.
477
00:40:18,365 --> 00:40:21,960
See, I got this girl in trouble,
and we're both Catholics.
478
00:40:22,036 --> 00:40:25,028
- The things is, I didn't even like her.
- Well, I...
479
00:40:25,106 --> 00:40:27,267
I accept your excuse, Danny.
480
00:40:27,641 --> 00:40:30,201
So you see, I didn't have very much time
to read any of those books.
481
00:40:30,277 --> 00:40:33,144
Well, will you please return to your seat?
482
00:40:37,351 --> 00:40:40,184
Who did prepare a book report?
483
00:40:41,188 --> 00:40:43,281
Lou Martin to your rescue.
484
00:40:45,493 --> 00:40:49,429
Linda, Linda, Linda.
Do you have a late pass?
485
00:40:49,497 --> 00:40:50,896
Oh, yeah.
486
00:40:51,832 --> 00:40:54,266
What's the bruise over your eye?
487
00:40:54,335 --> 00:40:57,168
Just received it this morning.
That's why I'm late.
488
00:40:57,238 --> 00:41:01,106
Well, will you go directly to the nurse
and have her treat it?
489
00:41:01,175 --> 00:41:04,736
Lou, you can begin your report
while I make out the pass.
490
00:41:04,979 --> 00:41:07,914
- My book is...
- The book you read.
491
00:41:08,716 --> 00:41:12,482
Yeah. The title is called Macbeth,
by Shakespeare.
492
00:41:12,553 --> 00:41:15,181
- The title is.
- Macbeth.
493
00:41:15,456 --> 00:41:18,948
Isn't Macbeth required reading
for last English term?
494
00:41:19,326 --> 00:41:22,318
- I ain't never read it before.
- I've never read it.
495
00:41:22,396 --> 00:41:26,162
Me neither.
In this book, the author depicts...
496
00:41:26,233 --> 00:41:27,325
Depicts.
497
00:41:27,401 --> 00:41:29,528
- Depicts how this guy, he wants to...
- Who?
498
00:41:29,603 --> 00:41:30,831
Him.
499
00:41:30,905 --> 00:41:32,429
- He.
- Yeah.
500
00:41:32,506 --> 00:41:35,737
All right, Lou,
what is the theme of Macbeth?
501
00:41:35,809 --> 00:41:38,471
Well, the author narrates this murder.
502
00:41:39,780 --> 00:41:43,773
Now, Lou, we don't need you
to show us how. All right, Lou.
503
00:41:45,953 --> 00:41:49,354
Lou. All right, class.
504
00:41:49,790 --> 00:41:54,420
The theme of Macbeth is that too much
ambition can become ruthless ambition
505
00:41:54,528 --> 00:41:56,655
and end up in disaster.
506
00:41:57,264 --> 00:41:59,357
That's what words are for.
507
00:42:00,034 --> 00:42:01,467
To be used.
508
00:42:02,836 --> 00:42:04,861
What does ruthless mean?
509
00:42:07,374 --> 00:42:08,363
Joe?
510
00:42:12,346 --> 00:42:13,335
Eddie.
511
00:42:14,148 --> 00:42:15,240
Steps all over.
512
00:42:15,316 --> 00:42:16,544
Use it in a sentence.
513
00:42:16,617 --> 00:42:18,676
Steps all over like white people.
514
00:42:18,752 --> 00:42:20,879
I know because I'm colored.
515
00:42:23,123 --> 00:42:25,148
- Rusty.
- Mrs. Macbeth nudges them.
516
00:42:25,659 --> 00:42:27,752
- You mean, "Nudges."
- "Nudges."
517
00:42:27,828 --> 00:42:30,092
Being a female, she spurns him on.
518
00:42:30,264 --> 00:42:31,356
Spurs.
519
00:42:31,532 --> 00:42:33,830
He wouldn't have done it,
except she spurned him on.
520
00:42:33,901 --> 00:42:36,096
- Then she's the ruthless one.
- Yeah.
521
00:42:38,839 --> 00:42:40,534
Alice.
522
00:42:40,608 --> 00:42:42,906
I think everyone has missed
the whole point.
523
00:42:43,077 --> 00:42:44,874
It's a play about love.
524
00:42:44,945 --> 00:42:48,938
Mr. Macbeth loves Mrs. Macbeth so much
that he'll do anything to please her,
525
00:42:49,283 --> 00:42:50,910
even kill.
526
00:42:52,253 --> 00:42:53,242
Jerry.
527
00:42:54,255 --> 00:42:57,247
Can't some people love and hate
at the same time, Miss Barrett?
528
00:42:57,324 --> 00:43:00,487
Aside from ambition, isn't that
how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
529
00:43:00,561 --> 00:43:02,791
destroyed themselves and each other?
530
00:43:10,504 --> 00:43:12,472
Jerry.
531
00:43:12,606 --> 00:43:14,597
That was a very interesting point
you made,
532
00:43:14,675 --> 00:43:17,200
and we'll talk more about it next time.
533
00:43:21,015 --> 00:43:24,678
You whitey-loving plow boy.
534
00:43:37,598 --> 00:43:40,032
Linda, Linda.
535
00:43:40,401 --> 00:43:42,869
Did Miss... Did Miss Eagen
put something on that bruise?
536
00:43:42,936 --> 00:43:44,426
Oh, no, she gave me a cup of tea.
537
00:43:44,505 --> 00:43:45,631
Is that all?
538
00:43:45,706 --> 00:43:47,435
I think she uses used tea bags.
539
00:43:47,608 --> 00:43:49,235
Well, come with me. I will... I'll talk to her.
540
00:43:49,310 --> 00:43:51,676
And it's a very bad bruise.
541
00:43:51,745 --> 00:43:54,043
Linda has a rough time with her father.
542
00:43:54,248 --> 00:43:57,308
Well, what good will tea do? Why tea?
543
00:43:57,484 --> 00:43:58,473
Read that.
544
00:44:01,188 --> 00:44:03,713
"The school nurse
may not touch wounds..."
545
00:44:03,791 --> 00:44:07,454
"...give medication, remove foreign
particles from the eye..."
546
00:44:08,595 --> 00:44:10,620
Can't you talk to somebody?
547
00:44:10,698 --> 00:44:11,858
Like who?
548
00:44:12,366 --> 00:44:16,564
Dr. Bester, the Welfare Administration,
social agencies, parents,
549
00:44:16,637 --> 00:44:18,366
I don't know.
550
00:44:18,439 --> 00:44:20,236
Oh, I'll do that
551
00:44:20,307 --> 00:44:22,138
I'll just do that.
552
00:44:22,443 --> 00:44:24,172
While you're here, Miss Barrett,
553
00:44:24,712 --> 00:44:26,077
it's come to my attention
554
00:44:26,146 --> 00:44:29,343
that there are matters of form
which you've neglected to fill out.
555
00:44:29,416 --> 00:44:33,147
Now, students
delinquent in obtaining gym suits
556
00:44:33,287 --> 00:44:35,721
should be alphabetized
and sent to me at once.
557
00:44:35,856 --> 00:44:38,347
And please, above all,
558
00:44:38,425 --> 00:44:41,258
discourage excessive dieting
in your home room.
559
00:44:42,262 --> 00:44:45,197
All right, I'll... I'll remember that.
560
00:44:46,066 --> 00:44:48,227
Gym suits and excessive dieting.
561
00:44:48,302 --> 00:44:51,396
I will remember that. Thank you.
562
00:44:53,507 --> 00:44:55,407
I give them tea.
563
00:44:55,476 --> 00:44:57,808
At least that's something.
564
00:44:59,513 --> 00:45:00,502
Linda.
565
00:45:00,781 --> 00:45:03,215
Linda, you can go on to class now.
566
00:45:03,283 --> 00:45:05,683
- You can't still see it, can you?
- No.
567
00:45:06,653 --> 00:45:07,950
So long as you can't see it.
568
00:45:08,021 --> 00:45:09,010
Linda.
569
00:45:12,860 --> 00:45:15,351
Is there anything that I can do for you?
570
00:45:15,829 --> 00:45:19,060
Oh, yeah, you could get us dancing
in the cafeteria.
571
00:45:19,466 --> 00:45:22,629
Other schools do it and they put on things.
572
00:45:22,703 --> 00:45:24,830
Why not? You only live once.
573
00:45:45,559 --> 00:45:47,049
Miss Friedenberg.
574
00:45:47,995 --> 00:45:49,462
Miss Barrett.
575
00:45:49,530 --> 00:45:54,024
I would like to have you tell me all you can
about Linda Rosen and Lou Martin,
576
00:45:54,101 --> 00:45:56,695
Eddie Williams, Rusty O'Brien
and Joe Ferone.
577
00:45:56,770 --> 00:45:58,237
I need some ammunition.
578
00:45:58,305 --> 00:46:00,773
Sit down, Miss Barrett.
It's a wise teacher who teaches
579
00:46:00,841 --> 00:46:03,071
not just the subject but the whole pupil.
580
00:46:03,143 --> 00:46:05,338
Well, right now,
I just need some ammunition.
581
00:46:05,612 --> 00:46:08,513
Now, first let me explain
my counseling system.
582
00:46:10,017 --> 00:46:12,577
These cabinets contain the PRCs.
583
00:46:12,653 --> 00:46:17,352
The PRC is, of course, the permanent
record card kept for each student.
584
00:46:17,724 --> 00:46:20,921
Now in the PRC is the PPP.
585
00:46:20,994 --> 00:46:23,189
It almost sings, doesn't it?
586
00:46:23,263 --> 00:46:26,790
The PPP is the pupil personality profile.
587
00:46:26,934 --> 00:46:31,064
I invented it myself, and I write it up
from my interviews in depth.
588
00:46:31,472 --> 00:46:33,838
Now, that's Miss Barrett, room 3...
589
00:46:33,907 --> 00:46:35,340
22.
590
00:46:35,409 --> 00:46:37,639
322.
591
00:46:38,612 --> 00:46:40,239
Three twenty-two, now...
592
00:46:40,781 --> 00:46:44,410
- That was Edward Williams.
- Edward Williams.
593
00:46:46,787 --> 00:46:48,118
Edward Williams.
594
00:46:48,856 --> 00:46:51,654
Edward... Edward Williams.
595
00:46:52,726 --> 00:46:57,561
"Must curb tendency to paranoia due
to socioeconomic environmental factors."
596
00:46:59,366 --> 00:47:00,833
Lou Martin, was it?
597
00:47:01,635 --> 00:47:03,830
Louis Martin.
598
00:47:03,904 --> 00:47:07,863
"Exhibits inverted hostility
in manic behavior patterns."
599
00:47:08,408 --> 00:47:09,670
Now, who else was that?
600
00:47:10,143 --> 00:47:11,633
Rusty O'Brien.
601
00:47:11,712 --> 00:47:13,509
Richard, Richard...
602
00:47:14,314 --> 00:47:18,717
"Show signs of latent homosexuality
induced by narcissistic mother
603
00:47:18,952 --> 00:47:21,682
"and permissive self-abusive practices."
604
00:47:21,855 --> 00:47:24,085
Am I going too fast for you, Miss Barrett?
605
00:47:24,157 --> 00:47:27,217
No, no, I think that I understand.
606
00:47:27,294 --> 00:47:30,593
Eddie Williams hates white people,
607
00:47:30,931 --> 00:47:35,766
Lou Martin is a cut-up
and Rusty O'Brien hates women.
608
00:47:37,604 --> 00:47:40,539
It's a wise teacher who translates
such complexities
609
00:47:40,607 --> 00:47:42,768
into the environmental vernacular.
610
00:47:42,843 --> 00:47:46,142
- What about Joe Ferone?
- Joe Ferone?
611
00:47:47,214 --> 00:47:48,647
Ferone.
612
00:47:50,484 --> 00:47:53,419
"Should channel
his libidino-aggressive impulses
613
00:47:53,487 --> 00:47:56,251
"into socially acceptable attitudes."
614
00:47:57,291 --> 00:47:59,919
I suggest you wear a smock.
615
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:01,593
On the...
616
00:48:02,496 --> 00:48:05,954
On the blue line,
to the right of the blue line on the PRC
617
00:48:06,033 --> 00:48:09,196
is the CC. Capsule characterization.
618
00:48:09,269 --> 00:48:10,736
Now, at the end of each term,
619
00:48:10,804 --> 00:48:15,002
each teacher
writes a succinct phrase for each student.
620
00:48:15,609 --> 00:48:17,236
A summing up.
621
00:48:17,644 --> 00:48:20,112
You should start thinking
about your CC's now.
622
00:48:20,180 --> 00:48:23,616
For example, Linda Rosen.
623
00:48:23,717 --> 00:48:25,810
What would you say so far?
624
00:48:25,886 --> 00:48:28,013
Marry her off fast.
625
00:48:28,722 --> 00:48:30,917
You don't quite get the idea, Miss Barrett.
626
00:48:30,991 --> 00:48:35,325
Her home room teacher last term
wrote, "Works to capacity."
627
00:48:36,263 --> 00:48:37,924
That's true.
628
00:48:38,665 --> 00:48:41,327
Now, other exemplary CC's would be,
629
00:48:41,401 --> 00:48:42,834
"Latent leader."
630
00:48:43,570 --> 00:48:45,504
"Needs encouragement."
631
00:48:46,006 --> 00:48:49,032
"Fine boy." "Should try harder."
632
00:48:50,043 --> 00:48:55,106
My CC's go back 23 years,
since I first came to Calvin Coolidge.
633
00:48:55,582 --> 00:48:58,107
Before that, unfortunately, there's a void.
634
00:48:59,152 --> 00:49:02,588
You have devoted a whole generation
of time to this work, haven't you,
635
00:49:02,656 --> 00:49:04,283
Miss Friedenberg?
636
00:49:05,125 --> 00:49:07,616
Why, that's very kind of you, Miss Barrett.
637
00:49:07,694 --> 00:49:10,595
No one has ever thought
to comment on it before.
638
00:49:10,664 --> 00:49:12,029
Thank you.
639
00:49:14,701 --> 00:49:19,695
It says here Joe Ferone has an IQ of 133.
That's very high, isn't it?
640
00:49:21,041 --> 00:49:22,440
But his marks are very low.
641
00:49:22,509 --> 00:49:24,136
65, 45, F.
642
00:49:24,211 --> 00:49:26,975
Yes, but there's a 94 in Social Studies.
643
00:49:28,215 --> 00:49:30,308
But a 22 in English.
644
00:49:32,519 --> 00:49:34,749
What kind of an English teacher
would give a 22?
645
00:49:34,821 --> 00:49:38,621
She must have sat up all night
deciding between 21 and 23.
646
00:49:38,959 --> 00:49:42,656
He's volunteered various home addresses,
all of them nonexistent.
647
00:49:43,230 --> 00:49:46,290
So if he doesn't show up at school,
the truant officers won't know where
648
00:49:46,366 --> 00:49:48,891
- to find him.
- They've given up trying.
649
00:49:49,002 --> 00:49:50,970
Yes, but he keeps coming back.
650
00:49:51,038 --> 00:49:52,665
Now and then.
651
00:49:52,739 --> 00:49:54,138
Oh, I'm late.
652
00:49:54,207 --> 00:49:56,334
But may I keep this?
653
00:49:58,679 --> 00:50:00,704
All right, but bring it back to me.
654
00:50:00,947 --> 00:50:03,609
Oh, yes, of course. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
655
00:50:06,987 --> 00:50:08,818
Please, please may I have your attention.
656
00:50:08,889 --> 00:50:11,084
If you don't quiet... Please. Thank you.
657
00:50:11,291 --> 00:50:15,523
Would the person or persons who took
my desk blotter please return it?
658
00:50:15,696 --> 00:50:19,223
Lou, please.
There will be no questions asked.
659
00:50:19,733 --> 00:50:22,930
Joe Ferone,
will you stay after the bell rings?
660
00:50:23,003 --> 00:50:27,497
I just want my desk blotter back
by tomorrow.
661
00:50:53,266 --> 00:50:57,600
Joe, I got your PRC
from Miss Friedenberg this morning,
662
00:50:57,904 --> 00:51:00,395
and I've been going over it very carefully.
663
00:51:00,674 --> 00:51:03,643
The thing that interests me most
664
00:51:03,710 --> 00:51:05,735
are the contradictions.
665
00:51:05,812 --> 00:51:08,508
The low grades, absences...
666
00:51:08,582 --> 00:51:13,246
This long list of infractions
and disciplinary measures.
667
00:51:13,353 --> 00:51:17,483
And then suddenly, out of nowhere,
a high mark
668
00:51:18,024 --> 00:51:20,015
and perfect attendance.
669
00:51:54,928 --> 00:51:58,625
You gonna report me, Teach,
for not staying after?
670
00:52:02,035 --> 00:52:04,230
I never reported you for anything.
671
00:52:06,072 --> 00:52:07,471
You will.
672
00:52:09,643 --> 00:52:11,736
You act as if you wanted me to.
673
00:52:13,713 --> 00:52:16,307
I've just seen your type before, that's all.
674
00:52:16,383 --> 00:52:18,283
There's one every year.
675
00:52:18,552 --> 00:52:20,782
"Not living up to your potential," they say.
676
00:52:21,154 --> 00:52:23,645
Is that what you were gonna say, Teach?
677
00:52:24,357 --> 00:52:28,623
"Just want to help you, Joe.
Just wanna be your friend."
678
00:52:29,930 --> 00:52:33,764
Then they get to feeling very sorry
about your environmental factors
679
00:52:33,834 --> 00:52:36,462
and your low socioeconomic level
680
00:52:37,103 --> 00:52:39,867
till you just have to tell them,
681
00:52:40,574 --> 00:52:43,668
"Get your nose out
of my environmental factors, will you?"
682
00:52:44,177 --> 00:52:46,668
"Keep your damn hands off my potential."
683
00:52:47,013 --> 00:52:49,038
Then they turn you in.
684
00:52:50,917 --> 00:52:52,748
I'm not going to turn you in.
685
00:52:54,020 --> 00:52:55,920
You know, you're better at it than most.
686
00:52:55,989 --> 00:53:00,426
Standing there, looking down at you,
I might almost think you give a damn.
687
00:53:01,027 --> 00:53:03,723
- I do.
- Prove it.
688
00:53:03,864 --> 00:53:05,456
Give me time.
689
00:53:07,033 --> 00:53:09,593
- You trying to make a deal of some kind?
- Are you?
690
00:53:17,577 --> 00:53:19,442
All right, Teach.
691
00:53:20,413 --> 00:53:23,211
Let's have that talk about my potential.
692
00:53:26,119 --> 00:53:28,417
You know...
693
00:53:28,488 --> 00:53:31,150
You could be suspended
for carrying that knife.
694
00:53:33,793 --> 00:53:36,489
Not unless someone turns me in.
695
00:53:46,606 --> 00:53:48,164
Give it to me.
696
00:53:50,677 --> 00:53:51,666
Sure.
697
00:54:02,789 --> 00:54:05,053
Would you come with me, please?
698
00:54:08,028 --> 00:54:11,225
Aren't you gonna say how sorry
you are you have to do this?
699
00:55:21,101 --> 00:55:23,228
All right, everybody out, out, out.
700
00:55:23,303 --> 00:55:25,567
Let's go. Let's go.
701
00:55:29,109 --> 00:55:31,600
Well, "Suggestions", Miss Barrett, eh?
702
00:55:31,911 --> 00:55:33,845
I must say, you've got guts.
703
00:55:33,913 --> 00:55:35,471
Oh, it's just an idea, Mr. McHabe.
704
00:55:36,716 --> 00:55:39,651
It seems to me if the students
have a chance to speak freely,
705
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:41,414
without constant fear of punishment...
706
00:55:41,488 --> 00:55:44,946
Listen, you try running this school
with ideas, you'll have riots in the rooms.
707
00:55:45,258 --> 00:55:47,385
Fear, that's all they understand.
708
00:55:47,460 --> 00:55:50,020
You, you. Come here.
709
00:55:53,199 --> 00:55:56,032
Miss Barrett,
may I see you for a minute, please?
710
00:55:57,804 --> 00:56:02,434
Miss Barrett, the name of Joe Ferone
is being removed from your Delaney book
711
00:56:02,509 --> 00:56:06,570
and will be carried under your
register under temporary suspension.
712
00:56:06,646 --> 00:56:09,114
Sign these, please.
713
00:56:10,417 --> 00:56:12,885
What good is it going to do
to suspend that boy?
714
00:56:13,053 --> 00:56:16,921
Turn him loose on the street
with all the gangs and drop-outs...
715
00:56:17,457 --> 00:56:21,518
Say what you like about Mr. McHabe.
This place was chaos before he came.
716
00:56:23,096 --> 00:56:25,223
I wasn't just blaming him.
717
00:56:34,174 --> 00:56:36,734
Is there always one that gets you
more than the others?
718
00:56:36,810 --> 00:56:40,803
And is it always the one that wants you
to prove something you can't prove
719
00:56:40,980 --> 00:56:43,380
and thinks life is made up of deals?
720
00:56:44,684 --> 00:56:48,211
I wonder if he'll come back
this time or just stay away.
721
00:56:48,688 --> 00:56:51,657
Miss Barrett. Miss Barrett? This...
722
00:56:52,792 --> 00:56:55,192
This boy is one of your students, I believe.
723
00:56:55,929 --> 00:56:57,897
- Yes.
- He was discovered asleep
724
00:56:57,964 --> 00:57:00,455
in the auditorium this morning
before the school doors were unlocked.
725
00:57:00,533 --> 00:57:02,967
He refuses to say how he got there.
726
00:57:03,036 --> 00:57:05,129
I'll send him back to you
just as soon as I've finished.
727
00:57:05,205 --> 00:57:07,070
Come on, let's go.
728
00:57:32,765 --> 00:57:35,393
I thought you might be ready
for that drink and dinner.
729
00:57:35,535 --> 00:57:38,663
- Maybe Thursday?
- All right, maybe Thursday.
730
00:57:44,110 --> 00:57:47,546
"Dear Teach. Nerts to you."
731
00:57:47,614 --> 00:57:49,605
You shouldn't be reading those.
732
00:57:52,018 --> 00:57:54,851
"Don't try so hard, you'll live longer."
733
00:57:55,088 --> 00:57:57,818
"How about a date?
I'll fix you up like you never had it before.
734
00:57:57,891 --> 00:58:00,155
"Signed, Loverboy."
735
00:58:00,660 --> 00:58:03,561
"Can you make the chalk
stop from squeaking?"
736
00:58:04,397 --> 00:58:08,231
"Is it possible for you to teach
creative writing next term?
737
00:58:08,301 --> 00:58:11,668
"You showed me that writing clearly
means thinking clearly."
738
00:58:12,305 --> 00:58:15,001
You see that? They are not all jokes.
739
00:58:15,475 --> 00:58:19,241
"Scram! Hit the road. Leave town
if you know what's good for you.
740
00:58:19,345 --> 00:58:20,676
"A Well-Wisher."
741
00:58:20,747 --> 00:58:22,408
You shouldn't make fun of them.
742
00:58:22,482 --> 00:58:25,679
Sometimes a sense of humor
is the only thing that keeps you going.
743
00:58:25,752 --> 00:58:27,743
It's not the same thing.
744
00:58:27,820 --> 00:58:31,950
"It is my considerable opinion
that you are very well qualified.
745
00:58:32,292 --> 00:58:35,352
"No matter how boring the lesson,
you always make it interesting."
746
00:58:35,428 --> 00:58:38,090
- Harry Kagan.
- Harry A. Kagan.
747
00:58:38,431 --> 00:58:42,800
Imagine electing that apple-polishing,
stuffed-shirt president of the GO.
748
00:58:42,969 --> 00:58:45,938
Do they actually think
he's better than they are?
749
00:58:46,072 --> 00:58:49,269
They see through him for what he is.
A fake.
750
00:58:49,342 --> 00:58:51,105
But then they think everything's a fake,
751
00:58:51,177 --> 00:58:52,235
including the GO,
752
00:58:52,312 --> 00:58:55,042
so it doesn't matter who's the president.
753
00:58:55,114 --> 00:58:58,515
It doesn't matter to them
who the president of the United States is.
754
00:58:58,585 --> 00:58:59,950
What's it to them?
755
00:59:00,019 --> 00:59:03,921
That's why your suggestion box is a frost.
756
00:59:04,958 --> 00:59:06,550
What suggestions can they make?
757
00:59:06,626 --> 00:59:08,719
What opinions can they have?
758
00:59:08,795 --> 00:59:10,888
This is the only one that makes sense.
759
00:59:10,997 --> 00:59:14,455
"Don't try so hard, you'll live longer."
760
00:59:15,435 --> 00:59:17,164
Mrs. Coolidge.
761
00:59:22,075 --> 00:59:24,669
Come on, I'll walk you to the corner.
762
00:59:29,582 --> 00:59:33,279
"I am not a good penman,
but I must tell someone.
763
00:59:33,519 --> 00:59:36,079
"I put this in the suggestion box
for the record.
764
00:59:36,155 --> 00:59:38,487
"Today is my birthday.
765
00:59:38,558 --> 00:59:41,356
"Happy birthday to me. Signed, Me."
766
00:59:43,930 --> 00:59:47,024
I just want to do something for that child.
767
00:59:48,868 --> 00:59:51,894
The nurse says wounds
must not be touched.
768
00:59:51,971 --> 00:59:55,202
I can't even find the wounds.
I don't know where they are.
769
00:59:56,409 --> 00:59:57,740
Tomorrow I go into the hospital
770
00:59:57,810 --> 00:59:58,834
- for a week...
- A Hospital?
771
00:59:58,911 --> 01:00:00,242
Routine. I'm at the age.
772
01:00:00,313 --> 01:00:04,306
The doctor took my pulse and said,
"My God, what line of work are you in?"
773
01:00:04,384 --> 01:00:06,181
The sad thing is it's so early
in the semester.
774
01:00:06,252 --> 01:00:08,083
A week is so important.
775
01:00:08,154 --> 01:00:11,248
I don't know who my substitute will be,
but if you're passing my room
776
01:00:11,324 --> 01:00:13,758
and the door is open, would you just stop
and listen for a moment?
777
01:00:13,826 --> 01:00:15,851
And see if she's doing all right?
778
01:00:16,396 --> 01:00:18,864
- Do you trust me to judge?
- Yes.
779
01:00:20,233 --> 01:00:21,666
All ready?
780
01:00:47,060 --> 01:00:49,392
Don't ever hurry down this block.
781
01:00:49,462 --> 01:00:51,054
Just walk slowly.
782
01:00:51,197 --> 01:00:54,564
Even if you're frightened
or late, or it's raining, just walk slowly.
783
01:00:55,601 --> 01:00:58,229
And look. Don't seem to, but look.
784
01:00:58,771 --> 01:01:00,762
This is where they spend 18 hours a day.
785
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:02,899
We have them for six.
786
01:01:03,810 --> 01:01:07,007
Almost insurmountable odds.
Eighteen to six.
787
01:01:08,081 --> 01:01:10,140
You noticed I said almost?
788
01:01:10,616 --> 01:01:14,052
Because you can't give up,
or you can't give them up.
789
01:01:15,021 --> 01:01:16,682
They've been given up
by too many already.
790
01:01:16,756 --> 01:01:18,519
We're their last chance.
791
01:01:18,991 --> 01:01:21,016
And maybe they're our last chance.
792
01:01:21,894 --> 01:01:26,627
Just walk slowly and think of the odds,
18 to six.
793
01:02:04,704 --> 01:02:06,865
Oh, you dance very well, Miss Barrett.
794
01:02:06,939 --> 01:02:08,668
Thank you, Harry. So do you.
795
01:02:08,741 --> 01:02:13,007
Well, my family has always made sure
that I be trained in the social amenities.
796
01:02:13,646 --> 01:02:15,841
These affairs are rather childish, I think.
797
01:02:15,915 --> 01:02:17,974
But they're for the good of the GO.
798
01:02:24,090 --> 01:02:25,352
Where are we going, Harry?
799
01:02:25,425 --> 01:02:28,451
Well, a gentleman should always return
his partner to the place he originally
800
01:02:28,528 --> 01:02:29,688
picked her up at.
801
01:02:29,762 --> 01:02:32,196
- Thank you, Miss Barrett.
- Thank you, Harry.
802
01:02:37,470 --> 01:02:38,903
Sylvia, have you been dancing?
803
01:02:38,971 --> 01:02:39,960
Not much.
804
01:02:40,273 --> 01:02:42,798
I've been having an amenity
with Harry Kagan.
805
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:49,043
Look, they're doing the Boogaloo.
806
01:02:49,115 --> 01:02:52,846
The Jerk is out, you know.
807
01:02:59,992 --> 01:03:02,825
All right, you two out there, you two.
Off the floor.
808
01:03:02,895 --> 01:03:04,556
You two, all right, all right, all right.
809
01:03:04,630 --> 01:03:06,154
Out, out, off the floor.
810
01:03:06,232 --> 01:03:08,223
No writhing on the floor.
811
01:03:08,434 --> 01:03:14,395
No writhing. All dancers will remain
in a vertical position at all times.
812
01:03:21,347 --> 01:03:23,907
There's Bob Whiteside.
813
01:03:24,450 --> 01:03:26,179
Dance, Miss Pastorfield?
814
01:03:26,419 --> 01:03:29,946
Now, Bob, why would you wanna dance
with an old witch like me
815
01:03:30,022 --> 01:03:33,549
when a pretty young teacher
like Miss Barrett is standing right here.
816
01:03:33,659 --> 01:03:36,059
Oh, Henrietta, now, you go ahead.
I'll watch the punch bowl.
817
01:03:36,329 --> 01:03:37,819
Me, do the Boogaloo?
818
01:03:38,097 --> 01:03:39,826
Why, you're pretty hip, Miss Pastorfield.
819
01:03:39,899 --> 01:03:41,924
Well, if you say so, Bob.
820
01:03:42,001 --> 01:03:45,528
If you say so. Thanks, Syl.
821
01:04:29,982 --> 01:04:31,472
Good evening, Miss Barrett.
822
01:04:31,617 --> 01:04:33,608
Good evening, Alice.
Do you want some punch?
823
01:04:33,686 --> 01:04:34,983
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
824
01:04:36,022 --> 01:04:39,287
Go on, you know what you wanna say.
Go ahead and say it.
825
01:04:40,259 --> 01:04:41,954
I just wanted to say
826
01:04:42,528 --> 01:04:46,259
that at the beginning of the term
I wanted to be in Mr. Barringer's class.
827
01:04:46,966 --> 01:04:49,161
But they made me stay in yours.
828
01:04:49,235 --> 01:04:51,294
I just wanted to say that I'm glad,
829
01:04:51,604 --> 01:04:55,096
although I'd rather be in Mr. Barringer's.
830
01:04:55,241 --> 01:04:57,232
Thank you very much, Alice.
831
01:04:59,245 --> 01:05:03,272
When you taught us that poem
by Edna Vincent Millay,
832
01:05:04,216 --> 01:05:07,743
and the part, "Take your...
Take her head upon your knee
833
01:05:07,820 --> 01:05:11,051
"And say to her, my dear, my dear
834
01:05:11,123 --> 01:05:13,785
"Is it is not so dreadful here"?
835
01:05:13,859 --> 01:05:15,622
And you asked who was speaking?
836
01:05:16,562 --> 01:05:18,860
I wanted to say, "Maybe a teacher."
837
01:05:19,298 --> 01:05:20,458
I don't recite well.
838
01:05:20,533 --> 01:05:22,091
Carole has to help me.
839
01:05:22,835 --> 01:05:25,303
- No, no, you recite very well, Alice.
- Thank you.
840
01:05:25,738 --> 01:05:29,105
I even tried to get more of Edna Vincent
Millay and Emily Dickinson.
841
01:05:29,175 --> 01:05:31,700
- You went to the library?
- It was closed.
842
01:05:32,411 --> 01:05:34,174
Will you excuse us a minute, Carole?
843
01:05:34,246 --> 01:05:37,238
You know, it was rehearsed
for her to say that.
844
01:05:38,684 --> 01:05:40,345
She knows everything.
845
01:05:40,586 --> 01:05:44,215
But there are some things when you just
have to talk to an older woman.
846
01:05:44,890 --> 01:05:46,790
Not a mother or an aunt.
847
01:05:46,859 --> 01:05:49,157
Even if it hasn't anything
to do with English.
848
01:05:49,428 --> 01:05:51,396
Good evening, Alice.
849
01:05:53,165 --> 01:05:54,860
Excuse me, Miss Barrett.
850
01:05:57,603 --> 01:06:01,664
There was a choked, unspoken
"I love you" on the end of that sentence.
851
01:06:02,174 --> 01:06:06,838
"She who had no need of me
Is a little lonely child lost in hell"
852
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:09,038
Is that all you want them to say?
853
01:06:09,115 --> 01:06:10,946
"Miss Barrett, I love you."
854
01:06:11,017 --> 01:06:12,382
It's easy to say.
855
01:06:12,451 --> 01:06:14,180
Miss Barrett, I love you.
856
01:06:16,622 --> 01:06:19,557
As a matter of fact, it's you that she loves.
857
01:06:20,292 --> 01:06:22,123
Is that all you found out
for all your trouble?
858
01:06:22,194 --> 01:06:24,389
Why don't you go dance with her?
She's over there watching.
859
01:06:24,463 --> 01:06:25,828
Well, maybe later.
860
01:06:26,232 --> 01:06:28,393
Why do you always say, "Maybe later"?
861
01:06:28,501 --> 01:06:32,232
Maybe sometime, maybe Thursday,
and there never is a Thursday.
862
01:06:33,172 --> 01:06:36,630
Wasn't this to be our dance?
863
01:06:37,543 --> 01:06:38,532
No.
864
01:06:39,612 --> 01:06:40,977
Not that I know of.
865
01:06:41,147 --> 01:06:43,513
Do you know, you...
You thought that up just this minute,
866
01:06:43,582 --> 01:06:46,415
just now, to avoid dancing with Alice.
867
01:06:46,485 --> 01:06:48,680
Is Miss Barrett refusing me?
868
01:06:50,189 --> 01:06:52,851
I... I have to stay with the punch
till Henrietta comes back.
869
01:06:52,925 --> 01:06:55,450
I think Miss Barrett is avoiding me.
870
01:06:55,528 --> 01:06:57,689
No. I have a telephone.
871
01:06:57,763 --> 01:07:00,027
But it only rings once a week on Sunday
872
01:07:00,433 --> 01:07:03,493
when my mother calls long distance
to remind me of all the recent murders
873
01:07:03,569 --> 01:07:07,266
in the city.
And I have a doorbell, and it works.
874
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:10,138
I write most evenings, you know that.
875
01:07:10,209 --> 01:07:13,474
And you're always
hunched over your suggestion box.
876
01:07:13,546 --> 01:07:15,036
Do you know what I think?
877
01:07:15,114 --> 01:07:17,674
I think if you actually lived in Kamchatka,
878
01:07:17,750 --> 01:07:20,310
and had never seen
Calvin Coolidge High School,
879
01:07:20,386 --> 01:07:23,913
you would write about
Calvin Coolidge High School.
880
01:07:23,989 --> 01:07:26,423
If Miss Barrett will excuse me.
881
01:09:13,732 --> 01:09:15,723
Well, did you do it?
882
01:09:36,522 --> 01:09:38,217
Good morning, Alice.
883
01:09:39,358 --> 01:09:43,658
Would you come to my classroom
for a minute at the end of the day?
884
01:09:54,306 --> 01:09:56,501
Where are you supposed to be?
885
01:10:31,906 --> 01:10:33,464
Come in, Alice.
886
01:10:39,881 --> 01:10:42,111
No, come up here. Close the door.
887
01:10:51,993 --> 01:10:53,483
Come closer, Alice.
888
01:11:04,339 --> 01:11:07,536
First of all, thank you for your note.
889
01:11:07,909 --> 01:11:10,878
Suppose... Suppose we go
through it together.
890
01:11:12,113 --> 01:11:13,637
"Dear Mr. Barringer..."
891
01:11:14,349 --> 01:11:17,011
There's nothing wrong
in using circles to dot "i's",
892
01:11:17,085 --> 01:11:19,815
but it's considered an affectation.
893
01:11:20,555 --> 01:11:22,489
"Last Sunday,
I took the subway to your stop
894
01:11:22,557 --> 01:11:25,754
"having looked up where you live
on your time card..."
895
01:11:26,060 --> 01:11:30,497
There should be a comma after "stop"
and a period at the end of the sentence,
896
01:11:30,665 --> 01:11:33,759
and no series of dots.
897
01:11:34,869 --> 01:11:36,860
"I hope you don't mind the presumption..."
898
01:11:37,205 --> 01:11:40,504
Look up the spelling of presumption,
899
01:11:41,609 --> 01:11:43,201
and no dots.
900
01:11:43,644 --> 01:11:46,408
"I walked back... and forth...
Across the street from your house."
901
01:11:46,481 --> 01:11:48,039
"Back... and forth..."
902
01:11:48,149 --> 01:11:50,140
Oh, Alice, these dots.
903
01:11:50,518 --> 01:11:52,179
Do you know, I think you use them...
904
01:11:52,253 --> 01:11:54,380
I think you use them because it's easier.
905
01:11:54,455 --> 01:11:57,219
It's easier
than learning correct punctuation.
906
01:11:57,759 --> 01:11:59,750
That's pretty lazy, Alice.
907
01:12:00,294 --> 01:12:03,388
"I thought I saw you in the window,
and my heart was throbbing with this love
908
01:12:03,464 --> 01:12:05,056
"I bear for you..."
909
01:12:06,601 --> 01:12:08,831
No dots, please
910
01:12:09,203 --> 01:12:12,934
and "throbbing" is pretty cheap.
911
01:12:13,741 --> 01:12:18,041
And omit "this". "Love" will be enough.
912
01:12:19,180 --> 01:12:25,244
"I think of you all the time..."
Dot, dot, dot, "...at night, darkling."
913
01:12:26,721 --> 01:12:30,157
Now, there is a word, "darkling",
but you've misused it here.
914
01:12:30,224 --> 01:12:34,957
And even if you'd used it correctly,
it'd be, literally, pretentious.
915
01:12:36,330 --> 01:12:40,061
"I pray to be worthy of you
and all you stand for."
916
01:12:40,635 --> 01:12:44,765
Now, the phrase "all you stand for"
isn't very clear.
917
01:12:45,506 --> 01:12:47,838
What... What do I stand for?
918
01:12:49,844 --> 01:12:52,972
"If you ever need me to die for you,
I would gladly do so
919
01:12:53,047 --> 01:12:56,539
"like the Lady of Shalott,
only Lancelot didn't know of her love
920
01:12:56,617 --> 01:13:02,556
"and only said, 'She has a lovely face,' and
you do know..." Dot, dot, dot, "...now."
921
01:13:04,992 --> 01:13:07,426
Run-on sentences are pretty popular
just now,
922
01:13:07,495 --> 01:13:11,226
but I can't begin to cope with this one.
923
01:13:12,500 --> 01:13:17,995
I would suggest
that you try to keep away from clich�s,
924
01:13:18,072 --> 01:13:21,098
and look up the spelling
of the Lady in Tennyson's
925
01:13:21,175 --> 01:13:22,938
Idylls of the King.
926
01:13:24,011 --> 01:13:28,812
"I didn't think I'd ever have the courage
to write this letter..." Dot, dot, dot,
927
01:13:28,916 --> 01:13:32,283
"...but when you danced with me,
I knew I had to tell the truth.
928
01:13:32,353 --> 01:13:34,253
"The Beautiful Truth."
929
01:13:35,156 --> 01:13:37,283
Well, there's no need to capitalize "Truth",
930
01:13:37,358 --> 01:13:40,418
nor is there any need
to capitalize "Beautiful."
931
01:13:45,900 --> 01:13:48,733
Morning, Alice. Books for us at last.
932
01:13:48,803 --> 01:13:51,294
Miss Barrett, can I talk to you a minute
before homeroom?
933
01:13:51,372 --> 01:13:52,839
I came early especially.
934
01:13:52,907 --> 01:13:54,169
Of course, Alice. What is it?
935
01:13:54,242 --> 01:13:56,107
Syl. Syl!
936
01:14:01,849 --> 01:14:03,214
The ghost walks.
937
01:14:03,284 --> 01:14:04,444
What does that mean?
938
01:14:04,519 --> 01:14:07,181
Dr. Bester is going to observe you
this morning.
939
01:14:07,255 --> 01:14:09,086
But I thought only the department
chairman observed...
940
01:14:09,157 --> 01:14:12,786
Well, sometimes Dr. Bester
likes to drop in himself.
941
01:14:12,860 --> 01:14:15,727
Look, give them a composition to write.
942
01:14:15,796 --> 01:14:19,197
"My Favorite Sport." That's a good one.
He'll get bored, and he'll go away.
943
01:14:19,267 --> 01:14:20,859
Okay, thank you.
944
01:14:22,703 --> 01:14:26,662
Alice, do you mind if we have our talk
this afternoon, right after school?
945
01:14:26,741 --> 01:14:28,766
- All right, Miss Barrett.
- Now that we have the new books
946
01:14:28,843 --> 01:14:32,904
I have to have a few minutes
to revise my lesson plan for the day.
947
01:14:52,833 --> 01:14:56,166
All right, class. Class!
In your seats, please.
948
01:14:56,804 --> 01:14:59,830
Let's fill out these book receipts
as quickly as possible
949
01:14:59,907 --> 01:15:02,000
so we can get on to a story
950
01:15:02,076 --> 01:15:06,240
that's been a favorite of hundreds
of thousands of people for years.
951
01:15:07,715 --> 01:15:09,478
Morning, Dr. Bester.
952
01:15:09,550 --> 01:15:11,484
Do you mind if I observe
for a while, Miss Barrett?
953
01:15:11,552 --> 01:15:14,350
Not at all. I'm sorry, Dr. Bester,
954
01:15:14,422 --> 01:15:18,882
but the extra chairs that I requisitioned
in September still haven't arrived.
955
01:15:19,126 --> 01:15:22,721
Roy, would you give Dr. Bester
your chair, please,
956
01:15:22,797 --> 01:15:25,265
and stand in the back of the room, please?
957
01:15:25,333 --> 01:15:26,960
I'll stand at the back
of the room, Miss Barrett.
958
01:15:27,034 --> 01:15:28,365
Thank you.
959
01:15:29,337 --> 01:15:32,204
Who would like to help me
distribute the books?
960
01:15:32,273 --> 01:15:35,003
Where is Alice Blake? Where is Alice?
961
01:15:35,076 --> 01:15:37,169
I don't know, Miss Barrett.
962
01:15:37,245 --> 01:15:41,648
Well, it's not like Alice to cut.
All right, girls, you help me, please.
963
01:16:36,437 --> 01:16:40,373
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles
964
01:16:43,744 --> 01:16:49,979
Dickens. 1812, 1870.
965
01:16:52,386 --> 01:16:54,081
We are not going to talk about this book.
966
01:16:54,155 --> 01:16:57,283
We are going to begin by reading it
on page one.
967
01:16:58,059 --> 01:17:01,927
Jerry. Jerry, will you read
the first paragraph aloud, please?
968
01:17:04,632 --> 01:17:08,090
"It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
969
01:17:08,169 --> 01:17:11,627
"it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
970
01:17:11,706 --> 01:17:16,143
"it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
971
01:17:16,644 --> 01:17:19,875
"it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
972
01:17:19,947 --> 01:17:23,280
"it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
973
01:17:23,351 --> 01:17:26,548
"we had everything before us,
we had nothing before us,
974
01:17:26,620 --> 01:17:28,178
"we were all going directly to Heaven,
975
01:17:28,255 --> 01:17:30,746
"we were all going
directly the other way..."
976
01:17:30,825 --> 01:17:32,452
Thank you, Jerry. That's enough for now.
977
01:17:32,526 --> 01:17:35,188
All right class,
what strikes you immediately?
978
01:17:35,262 --> 01:17:36,991
The different things.
979
01:17:37,064 --> 01:17:39,362
- The yes and no's.
- The opposites.
980
01:17:39,433 --> 01:17:42,766
Yes. Dickens was saying
something very simple,
981
01:17:43,304 --> 01:17:46,239
by the use of contrasts or opposites.
982
01:17:46,941 --> 01:17:48,533
We call this...
983
01:17:56,550 --> 01:17:57,949
Antithesis.
984
01:17:58,853 --> 01:18:02,687
Instead of saying,
"It was a crazy, mixed-up period,"
985
01:18:02,757 --> 01:18:06,158
he says, "It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times".
986
01:18:06,227 --> 01:18:09,424
But the most interesting part
of the paragraph
987
01:18:09,497 --> 01:18:11,158
is still to come.
988
01:18:12,833 --> 01:18:16,325
Merle, would you read
the next phrase aloud, please?
989
01:18:17,171 --> 01:18:20,072
"...in short, the period was so far
like the present period..."
990
01:18:20,141 --> 01:18:22,473
Stop. That's enough. Thank you.
991
01:18:22,910 --> 01:18:26,505
Dickens wrote that
more than 100 years ago,
992
01:18:26,580 --> 01:18:29,845
referring to a time almost 200 years ago.
993
01:18:29,917 --> 01:18:33,353
"It was so far like the present period."
994
01:18:34,455 --> 01:18:38,016
Now, what I want to know is,
can we still say that today?
995
01:18:38,926 --> 01:18:41,918
Is it still the best of times,
the worst of times?
996
01:18:41,996 --> 01:18:43,520
Only the worst.
997
01:18:43,731 --> 01:18:45,858
Why is it only the worst, Lennie?
998
01:18:45,933 --> 01:18:47,332
'Cause that's what it is.
999
01:18:47,401 --> 01:18:49,369
Well, perhaps it would help us
if you would tell us
1000
01:18:49,437 --> 01:18:51,928
what you mean by the word "worst".
1001
01:18:52,740 --> 01:18:53,798
Poor.
1002
01:18:53,874 --> 01:18:57,742
But aren't we in the midst of prosperity?
Isn't it also the best of times?
1003
01:18:57,845 --> 01:18:59,574
There's still the rats and no toilets.
1004
01:18:59,647 --> 01:19:01,444
Aren't there also
new housing developments
1005
01:19:01,515 --> 01:19:02,982
with playgrounds and parks?
1006
01:19:03,050 --> 01:19:04,608
Parks is murder pits.
1007
01:19:04,685 --> 01:19:06,846
Is Yellowstone National Park a murder pit?
1008
01:19:06,921 --> 01:19:08,616
We saw the movie in assembly.
1009
01:19:08,689 --> 01:19:10,816
- That's right, Esmeralda.
- Narcotics makes it worse.
1010
01:19:10,891 --> 01:19:13,416
All right.
All right, who can answer narcotics?
1011
01:19:13,494 --> 01:19:14,188
What's the best?
1012
01:20:04,745 --> 01:20:08,146
Is it still the season of light
and the season of darkness?
1013
01:20:08,215 --> 01:20:09,910
- Miss Barrett.
- Yes, Eddie.
1014
01:20:09,984 --> 01:20:12,782
Darks don't have no chance, only whites.
1015
01:20:14,188 --> 01:20:16,656
What about the civil rights laws
and integration?
1016
01:20:16,724 --> 01:20:17,986
Yeah, what about?
1017
01:20:18,058 --> 01:20:20,117
How stupid can you get, huh?
1018
01:20:20,194 --> 01:20:22,253
What are you talking about?
They passed the law.
1019
01:20:23,063 --> 01:20:25,554
Bussing kids to school miles away.
1020
01:20:26,634 --> 01:20:28,568
We can't be juggled
like different-colored marbles.
1021
01:20:28,636 --> 01:20:30,695
Yeah, and go home to the rats
with no toilets.
1022
01:20:30,771 --> 01:20:33,137
And the junkies on the road, dope addicts.
1023
01:20:33,207 --> 01:20:35,038
...kids who wouldn't even arrive.
1024
01:20:37,011 --> 01:20:39,445
All right. All right. All right.
1025
01:20:39,947 --> 01:20:44,008
We have time for one last comment.
All right, Harry.
1026
01:20:44,084 --> 01:20:47,247
The General Organization of which
I am president of is proud to consider
1027
01:20:47,321 --> 01:20:51,280
that other races have just as much right
to be human voters, too.
1028
01:20:51,358 --> 01:20:52,985
Get bent!
1029
01:20:56,130 --> 01:20:58,325
Get bent!
1030
01:20:58,399 --> 01:21:02,028
All right. All right, class. Please. Please.
1031
01:21:02,169 --> 01:21:04,763
What we've been saying
is that there are certain similarities
1032
01:21:04,905 --> 01:21:07,169
between our period
and the period of Dickens
1033
01:21:07,241 --> 01:21:08,708
and the period of Tale of Two Cities.
1034
01:21:08,776 --> 01:21:11,802
As we read on, let's continue to be aware
1035
01:21:11,879 --> 01:21:14,040
of these similarities and differences
1036
01:21:14,114 --> 01:21:17,106
because that will make us understand
why this book still can be exciting
1037
01:21:17,184 --> 01:21:19,311
and interesting
after being written 100 years ago.
1038
01:21:19,386 --> 01:21:21,445
All right.
All right, Lou, what do you want to say?
1039
01:21:21,522 --> 01:21:27,017
With the bombs going up and our morals
going down, we got anti-thesis.
1040
01:21:29,196 --> 01:21:30,823
All right, class.
1041
01:21:32,466 --> 01:21:33,865
All right.
1042
01:21:42,509 --> 01:21:45,637
Miss Barrett, what is the meaning
of this noise?
1043
01:21:49,083 --> 01:21:50,482
With Dr. Bester here, you allowed
1044
01:21:50,551 --> 01:21:52,348
your class to behave
in this unruly fashion?
1045
01:21:52,419 --> 01:21:55,081
I could hear them all the way down
the corridor above the drilling.
1046
01:21:55,155 --> 01:21:57,146
It's the sound of thinking, Mr. McHabe.
1047
01:21:57,224 --> 01:21:59,954
This class cannot wait to read
A Tale of Two Cities,
1048
01:22:00,027 --> 01:22:03,463
and Lou Martin made a joke with a point,
a serious point.
1049
01:22:03,530 --> 01:22:06,192
And Eddie Williams
spoke out in class for the first time...
1050
01:22:06,266 --> 01:22:09,235
Mr. McHabe, report to the main officeat once. Urgent.
1051
01:22:09,303 --> 01:22:13,535
Mr. McHabe, report to the main officeat once. Urgent.
1052
01:22:19,747 --> 01:22:23,376
Sit down in your seats.
Bob Whiteside will handle the class.
1053
01:22:23,450 --> 01:22:26,681
I'll be back in a moment. Let's not panic.
1054
01:22:26,754 --> 01:22:27,743
Get back in the room.
1055
01:22:31,859 --> 01:22:34,657
You are to go to the office immediately.
I'll keep an eye on your class.
1056
01:22:34,728 --> 01:22:36,457
Bob Whiteside is taking over mine.
1057
01:22:36,530 --> 01:22:38,498
- What happened?
- Alice Blake jumped out the window.
1058
01:22:38,565 --> 01:22:40,192
She killed herself?
1059
01:22:40,267 --> 01:22:42,497
No, the ledge broke her fall.
1060
01:22:56,583 --> 01:22:57,709
Alice Blake?
1061
01:22:57,785 --> 01:22:58,979
Thank heavens, someone's come.
1062
01:22:59,053 --> 01:23:01,112
The nurse is always forgotten
at a time like this.
1063
01:23:01,188 --> 01:23:02,883
- Where is Alice?
- Hospital. Hospital.
1064
01:23:02,956 --> 01:23:05,481
- Is she going to be all right?
- It's too soon. It's too soon.
1065
01:23:05,559 --> 01:23:08,187
It's too late. Send her health card at once.
1066
01:23:08,262 --> 01:23:10,787
Do you have any blank accident reports?
I'm all...
1067
01:23:13,901 --> 01:23:15,391
Did you see her jump?
1068
01:23:15,536 --> 01:23:19,597
I didn't see anyone jump.
I'm not really a witness.
1069
01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:24,340
I was just passing room 309, and I saw
something going out of the window.
1070
01:23:24,411 --> 01:23:27,812
Check here. Parent or guardian.
Reached or not reached.
1071
01:23:27,881 --> 01:23:32,682
Telephone or telegram, and you fill in here,
jumped or fell.
1072
01:23:32,753 --> 01:23:34,220
How is Alice?
1073
01:23:34,722 --> 01:23:35,711
The only important consideration
1074
01:23:35,789 --> 01:23:36,585
is that the whole disaster
1075
01:23:36,957 --> 01:23:37,981
would not have occurred if...
1076
01:23:38,058 --> 01:23:40,458
Come in, Miss Barrett. Sit down.
1077
01:23:40,961 --> 01:23:42,826
Thank you, Dr. Bester.
1078
01:23:43,797 --> 01:23:45,628
Is Alice going to be all right?
1079
01:23:45,699 --> 01:23:47,360
Everything possible is being done.
1080
01:23:47,434 --> 01:23:48,958
The whole disaster
would not have occurred
1081
01:23:49,036 --> 01:23:52,096
if Mr. Barringer's classroom
had not been empty during first period.
1082
01:23:52,172 --> 01:23:53,969
I have no class then.
1083
01:23:54,041 --> 01:23:57,135
Nevertheless, you know it that
you're supposed to be in the building.
1084
01:23:57,211 --> 01:24:01,204
I was having breakfast
at Cora's Coffee Pot on Whitney Avenue.
1085
01:24:02,149 --> 01:24:05,710
I see. Is that your usual procedure
during first period?
1086
01:24:05,786 --> 01:24:09,745
Sometimes I patronize Harry's
Ham 'N' Eggs if Cora's is crowded.
1087
01:24:10,724 --> 01:24:14,160
Miss Finch, you haven't reported
Mr. Barringer's lateness in punching in.
1088
01:24:14,228 --> 01:24:17,095
He's always punched in. Always.
On the dot.
1089
01:24:18,565 --> 01:24:21,557
Who's been punching
in for you, Mr. Barringer?
1090
01:24:25,072 --> 01:24:27,632
Gallantry, Mr. McHabe. Gallantry.
1091
01:24:28,275 --> 01:24:31,369
Miss Finch, see that a directive
goes out to all teachers at once.
1092
01:24:31,445 --> 01:24:35,472
In future, no room will be left uncovered
at any time when not in use,
1093
01:24:35,549 --> 01:24:38,541
and to prevent further
unfortunate incidents,
1094
01:24:38,619 --> 01:24:42,385
all teachers are instructed to re-double
their vigilance at all times.
1095
01:24:42,456 --> 01:24:46,415
I punched him in. He's a creative artist.
1096
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:50,896
He shouldn't have to get up at 6:30
like the rest of us.
1097
01:24:55,169 --> 01:24:58,297
I have here the girl's PRC, Dr. Bester.
1098
01:24:58,372 --> 01:25:01,808
Now, the capsule characterizations
for the past three terms read,
1099
01:25:01,875 --> 01:25:06,869
"Nice and helpful", "Leadership potential",
and "Reliable blackboard monitor".
1100
01:25:06,947 --> 01:25:08,471
Thank you, Miss Friedenberg.
1101
01:25:08,582 --> 01:25:11,449
It's most atypical for a girl
with her stable PPP
1102
01:25:11,518 --> 01:25:13,076
to have done what she did,
1103
01:25:13,187 --> 01:25:14,916
but there are factors beyond our control
1104
01:25:14,988 --> 01:25:18,754
which are frequently the cause
of emotional disequilibrium.
1105
01:25:20,294 --> 01:25:24,697
Miss Friedenberg has delicately
brought us to the question of motivation.
1106
01:25:24,765 --> 01:25:27,233
It's my fault, sir. I am to blame.
1107
01:25:27,868 --> 01:25:29,733
Are you, Miss Barrett?
1108
01:25:30,838 --> 01:25:33,432
Alice came to me this morning
and wanted to talk.
1109
01:25:33,507 --> 01:25:37,671
If I had spent five minutes with her,
this might not have happened.
1110
01:25:38,879 --> 01:25:41,245
Well, this letter was found
on the child's person.
1111
01:25:41,315 --> 01:25:43,840
Do you recognize it, Mr. Barringer?
1112
01:25:44,117 --> 01:25:46,415
Yes, it's a letter she wrote to me.
1113
01:25:46,486 --> 01:25:48,647
A love letter, I should say.
1114
01:25:48,889 --> 01:25:52,586
Which I corrected for grammar
and spelling and returned to the student.
1115
01:25:52,659 --> 01:25:55,059
With no comment on its contents?
1116
01:25:55,896 --> 01:25:57,124
No, sir.
1117
01:25:59,666 --> 01:26:03,432
Your gallantry seems to vary
from day to day, Mr. Barringer.
1118
01:26:03,937 --> 01:26:06,428
May I ask, sir, what I should have done?
1119
01:26:06,506 --> 01:26:07,996
Talked to her.
1120
01:26:08,508 --> 01:26:11,033
And encouraged a neurotic teenager?
1121
01:26:41,608 --> 01:26:44,202
Miss Barrett, this boy is being admitted
once again, as always,
1122
01:26:44,278 --> 01:26:46,109
as usual, on probation.
1123
01:26:46,179 --> 01:26:48,807
I want you to report the slightest violation
of the smallest rule.
1124
01:26:48,882 --> 01:26:50,873
The next time it'll mean expulsion.
1125
01:26:50,951 --> 01:26:52,248
Yes, sir.
1126
01:26:59,793 --> 01:27:02,887
Look at me, Teach.
Punched in with my own hand.
1127
01:27:11,638 --> 01:27:14,129
Miss Barrett. Miss Barrett.
1128
01:27:14,207 --> 01:27:15,538
May I remind you
1129
01:27:15,609 --> 01:27:18,703
that Alice Blake still has
a library copy of Idylls of the King?
1130
01:27:18,779 --> 01:27:23,580
- It's already 15 cents overdue.
- Well, I'll see that you get it, Mrs. Wolf.
1131
01:27:35,529 --> 01:27:37,520
Can I talk to you
for a minute, Miss Barrett?
1132
01:27:37,597 --> 01:27:41,829
Good morning, Eddie. Sit down.
I've been wanting to talk to you, too.
1133
01:27:49,977 --> 01:27:54,209
You've been doing so much better lately.
Speaking out in class.
1134
01:27:55,048 --> 01:27:58,176
- Getting your assignments in on time.
- I'm dropping out.
1135
01:27:58,251 --> 01:28:00,685
You gotta sign my book clearance.
1136
01:28:05,525 --> 01:28:09,894
Oh, Eddie, why?
Just when you're doing so well.
1137
01:28:14,167 --> 01:28:16,897
Do your parents want you to? Is that it?
1138
01:28:20,307 --> 01:28:22,298
Do you have to get a job?
1139
01:28:25,579 --> 01:28:29,743
Listen, Eddie, if it's a matter of money,
1140
01:28:30,150 --> 01:28:32,175
we can talk to somebody.
1141
01:28:37,057 --> 01:28:41,255
Oh, Eddie,
you may be ruining your chances.
1142
01:28:42,896 --> 01:28:47,094
You may be able to get a job now.
You may be able to get an ordinary job,
1143
01:28:47,167 --> 01:28:49,829
but you can get a better job
if you just stick it out.
1144
01:28:49,903 --> 01:28:52,098
My brother stuck it out here.
1145
01:28:52,239 --> 01:28:56,573
He went up for that better job.
He went up for that ordinary job, also.
1146
01:28:57,577 --> 01:29:01,274
The very next day
some whities had both jobs.
1147
01:29:03,116 --> 01:29:04,777
Oh, Eddie, I'm...
1148
01:29:05,085 --> 01:29:09,954
- Look at the negro teachers in this school.
- I just won't be them, Miss Barrett.
1149
01:29:11,591 --> 01:29:16,085
Well, Eddie, what will you do? Nothing?
1150
01:29:17,898 --> 01:29:20,298
You gotta sign my book clearance.
1151
01:29:54,067 --> 01:29:59,027
Dickens calls the first book
of A Tale of Two Cities, "Recalled to life."
1152
01:29:59,106 --> 01:30:00,596
Now, what does that suggest?
1153
01:30:00,674 --> 01:30:02,073
- Can't be done.
- Dead is dead.
1154
01:30:02,142 --> 01:30:03,131
So who's recalling?
1155
01:30:03,210 --> 01:30:06,077
Physical death isn't the only kind of death.
1156
01:30:06,146 --> 01:30:08,876
The spirit may be killed, or the mind,
or the will,
1157
01:30:08,949 --> 01:30:12,407
and then sometimes something happens
to make it come to life again.
1158
01:30:12,486 --> 01:30:15,250
In the case of Dr. Manette,
who's been imprisoned for...
1159
01:30:19,459 --> 01:30:21,586
Good morning, Miss Barrett.
1160
01:30:21,761 --> 01:30:24,628
As all the world knows by now,
I've no class first period,
1161
01:30:24,698 --> 01:30:26,256
so I decided to sit in on yours.
1162
01:30:26,333 --> 01:30:28,324
- What's the lesson plan for today?
- Paul...
1163
01:30:28,401 --> 01:30:31,302
Surely a dedicated teacher like you
has a lesson plan.
1164
01:30:31,371 --> 01:30:33,862
- A Tale of Two Cities.
- Perfect!
1165
01:30:35,175 --> 01:30:38,269
May I remind you
that tale is spelt T-A-L-E.
1166
01:30:41,581 --> 01:30:44,709
They say a writer
should stick to what he knows.
1167
01:30:44,885 --> 01:30:46,375
What nonsense.
1168
01:30:47,420 --> 01:30:49,911
What did Dickens know
about French Revolutions?
1169
01:30:49,990 --> 01:30:52,959
What did Shakespeare know
about Moors in Venice?
1170
01:30:53,026 --> 01:30:55,961
If he'd stuck to what he knew,
we'd have no Othello.
1171
01:30:56,029 --> 01:30:59,624
We'd have no Alice in Wonderland.
We'd have no Treasure Island.
1172
01:30:59,699 --> 01:31:03,157
You brats think that I and Miss Barrett
stand up there, day after day,
1173
01:31:03,236 --> 01:31:06,728
talking about books and the writing
of books just for the hell of it?
1174
01:31:06,806 --> 01:31:09,639
You think it's got nothing to do with you.
1175
01:31:09,809 --> 01:31:14,109
A writer creates a book.
An individual creates a life.
1176
01:31:15,382 --> 01:31:20,012
For a writer to create a masterpiece,
he's got to think beyond what he knows.
1177
01:31:20,086 --> 01:31:23,988
For an individual to create a life,
even a halfway-decent one,
1178
01:31:24,291 --> 01:31:27,124
he's gotta go beyond what he knows.
1179
01:31:28,094 --> 01:31:32,224
Go beyond the poverty, the disease,
the dope, the degeneracy.
1180
01:31:32,899 --> 01:31:35,231
Go beyond the oceans to the Alps,
1181
01:31:35,302 --> 01:31:36,860
a magnificent replica of which
1182
01:31:36,937 --> 01:31:39,963
the Board of Education
has generously donated.
1183
01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:41,064
Stick with what you think
1184
01:31:41,141 --> 01:31:43,371
and that's what you're gonna
be stuck with.
1185
01:31:43,443 --> 01:31:45,843
You may as well get out. Now.
1186
01:31:54,120 --> 01:31:56,486
Miss Barrett's class dismissed.
1187
01:31:57,257 --> 01:32:00,522
All of you dismissed
for the rest of your crummy lives.
1188
01:32:00,594 --> 01:32:04,360
Some of you may prefer to leave by
the window. I prefer to leave by the door.
1189
01:32:04,431 --> 01:32:06,661
Punch me out, will you, Teach?
1190
01:32:29,756 --> 01:32:35,695
Browning wrote, "A man's reach must
exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
1191
01:32:36,997 --> 01:32:40,091
But there's something to be said for first,
1192
01:32:40,400 --> 01:32:45,929
or finally, or sometime knowing what
your grasp is without giving up courage,
1193
01:32:47,474 --> 01:32:50,773
or heart, or whatever you want to call it.
1194
01:32:52,212 --> 01:32:56,706
If you deny what you know
or what you are, or where you are,
1195
01:32:56,916 --> 01:33:00,818
you deny the simplest part of being alive,
and you die,
1196
01:33:05,525 --> 01:33:09,962
like Dr. Manette
who was imprisoned for 18 years
1197
01:33:11,031 --> 01:33:13,056
in A Tale of Two Cities.
1198
01:33:15,235 --> 01:33:18,068
Can he be recalled to life?
1199
01:33:30,016 --> 01:33:31,779
I think some can.
1200
01:33:32,152 --> 01:33:37,249
At least, they come back to where life is
of their own accord.
1201
01:33:39,125 --> 01:33:41,320
And that's a beginning.
1202
01:33:52,072 --> 01:33:55,371
Do not turn the papers over
until the bell has rung.
1203
01:33:59,813 --> 01:34:02,907
Examination papers must not be touched
until the bell rings.
1204
01:34:02,982 --> 01:34:05,746
All books, notebooks,
1205
01:34:06,219 --> 01:34:09,017
pocket books and other personal
possessions must be placed
1206
01:34:09,089 --> 01:34:11,023
on the floor in front of the room.
1207
01:34:11,157 --> 01:34:15,389
Doctor says to take a pill at 9:30.
Can I keep a pill if it's not written on?
1208
01:34:15,595 --> 01:34:19,554
When the bell rings,
you are to turn your papers over in unison.
1209
01:34:19,699 --> 01:34:22,099
No student is to leave his seat.
1210
01:34:22,168 --> 01:34:25,433
If you have a question, raise your hand,
and I will be in the back of the room.
1211
01:34:25,505 --> 01:34:27,496
If you stand back there,
how can we tell who you're watching?
1212
01:34:27,574 --> 01:34:29,701
- Whom, whom I'm watching.
- Whom.
1213
01:34:29,776 --> 01:34:31,403
- Teach, hey, Teach. We gotta...
- Teach.
1214
01:34:31,478 --> 01:34:33,742
All right, class. Let's settle down.
1215
01:34:33,813 --> 01:34:37,112
Class, let's settle down
and wait for the bell.
1216
01:34:43,990 --> 01:34:46,515
It isn't fair. We never had this.
1217
01:34:46,593 --> 01:34:50,529
They always ask what I don't know
and never ask what I know.
1218
01:34:50,997 --> 01:34:54,455
Silence. Let's get to work. Time is passing.
1219
01:35:13,119 --> 01:35:14,313
Toilet.
1220
01:35:15,155 --> 01:35:17,248
Come with me.
1221
01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:29,291
You have to wait for the hall proctor.
1222
01:35:30,103 --> 01:35:31,798
You mean you don't trust me?
1223
01:35:31,871 --> 01:35:33,896
Proctor has to escort you.
1224
01:35:37,477 --> 01:35:39,138
All right, I'll make a deal with you.
1225
01:35:39,212 --> 01:35:41,009
I'll let you go alone.
1226
01:35:41,881 --> 01:35:45,476
But it's to be understood you are
honor-bound not to use the lavatory
1227
01:35:45,552 --> 01:35:47,884
for any but legitimate purposes,
not for a reference room,
1228
01:35:47,954 --> 01:35:48,978
not even for a quick smoke.
1229
01:35:49,055 --> 01:35:50,750
Now, is that understood?
1230
01:35:50,857 --> 01:35:52,222
Sure, Teach.
1231
01:36:12,579 --> 01:36:14,171
You let him out of the room unescorted.
1232
01:36:14,247 --> 01:36:16,238
There was no hall proctor.
1233
01:36:16,316 --> 01:36:18,841
You realize, of course,
his exam paper's now invalidated.
1234
01:36:18,918 --> 01:36:22,081
- There's no point in his continuing.
- He wasn't looking up any answers.
1235
01:36:22,155 --> 01:36:24,453
- How do you know that?
- He told me he wouldn't.
1236
01:36:24,524 --> 01:36:26,355
- Do you believe him?
- I believe him and I think
1237
01:36:26,426 --> 01:36:29,190
he should be allowed to finish.
1238
01:36:30,163 --> 01:36:33,462
Very well, Miss Barrett, but I want
that exam paper corrected immediately
1239
01:36:33,533 --> 01:36:38,129
at the end of the day and then I want
to see you and the boy in my office.
1240
01:36:40,406 --> 01:36:43,375
Second girl in third row,
eyes on your paper.
1241
01:36:47,447 --> 01:36:49,881
Joe, please return to your seat.
1242
01:37:26,653 --> 01:37:29,087
Eighty-six percent, Joe.
1243
01:37:34,527 --> 01:37:37,087
Wait. Wait.
1244
01:37:50,476 --> 01:37:52,103
Well, the boy has obviously cheated.
1245
01:37:52,178 --> 01:37:55,011
The 86 percent he earned
was for essay questions
1246
01:37:55,081 --> 01:37:58,812
requiring the personal interpretation
of the student.
1247
01:37:58,885 --> 01:38:01,615
Evaluations, comparisons and judgment.
1248
01:38:01,721 --> 01:38:04,656
And certainly not the kind of material
you could look up in a lavatory.
1249
01:38:04,757 --> 01:38:07,282
Well, the examination will be gone over
with a fine-toothed comb
1250
01:38:07,360 --> 01:38:08,850
by an unbiased party.
1251
01:38:08,928 --> 01:38:11,362
I think the boy should be
accused of cheating now
1252
01:38:11,431 --> 01:38:13,899
and allowed to defend himself,
or exonerated with an apology.
1253
01:38:13,967 --> 01:38:16,902
And as for your conduct,
Miss Barrett, in the...
1254
01:38:17,637 --> 01:38:19,537
- McHabe speaking.
- I think the boy has a right to know
1255
01:38:19,606 --> 01:38:21,198
where he stands.
1256
01:38:21,274 --> 01:38:23,674
Yes, Sergeant, she is one of our students.
1257
01:38:23,876 --> 01:38:26,504
Just a minute. We'll finish this later.
1258
01:38:28,481 --> 01:38:32,315
Well, there's nothing we can do
about it personally, Sergeant.
1259
01:38:32,518 --> 01:38:35,783
No, it's...
It's a matter for one of the youth boards.
1260
01:38:38,625 --> 01:38:40,889
Got you in trouble, didn't I, Teach?
1261
01:38:40,960 --> 01:38:43,087
Just think, if I'd gotten
my usual 20 percent,
1262
01:38:43,162 --> 01:38:45,756
the whole thing
would have probably blown over.
1263
01:38:46,466 --> 01:38:50,960
Listen, Joe, if you're saying to me you got
86 percent just to get me into trouble,
1264
01:38:51,804 --> 01:38:52,828
let me tell you something.
1265
01:38:52,905 --> 01:38:53,997
I don't care.
1266
01:38:54,073 --> 01:38:57,270
You got it. I was hard on you, Joe.
I was tough.
1267
01:38:57,343 --> 01:39:00,972
I didn't let you get away
with one single misplaced comma.
1268
01:39:01,581 --> 01:39:05,017
You, Joe, 86 percent.
1269
01:39:19,732 --> 01:39:22,223
To all parents. Welcome.
1270
01:39:23,469 --> 01:39:27,872
Your son or daughter has given youa copy of his or her program
1271
01:39:28,207 --> 01:39:31,108
with the name of eachof his or her teachers
1272
01:39:31,177 --> 01:39:34,112
and the roomwhere the teacher may be found.
1273
01:39:34,747 --> 01:39:38,376
If you are unable to locatethese designated rooms,
1274
01:39:38,451 --> 01:39:40,646
please come to room 112,
1275
01:39:41,354 --> 01:39:45,814
112, to the right ofthe main entrance, for information.
1276
01:39:46,926 --> 01:39:47,984
In order to see as many...
1277
01:39:48,061 --> 01:39:49,961
- Come in, Roy.
...parents as possible,
1278
01:39:50,029 --> 01:39:54,227
teachers have been instructedto allot no more than five minutes...
1279
01:39:54,300 --> 01:39:55,892
- How do you do, Mrs. Atkins?
...to each parent.
1280
01:39:55,968 --> 01:39:57,833
It's Lewes. Mrs. Lewes.
1281
01:39:58,471 --> 01:40:00,905
- We got different names.
- Mrs. Lewes.
1282
01:40:01,507 --> 01:40:04,943
Do my five minutes start now
or when we start talking?
1283
01:40:05,044 --> 01:40:08,275
No, no, please,
you can have as much time as you like.
1284
01:40:08,347 --> 01:40:10,815
There seems to be a small turnout tonight.
1285
01:40:10,883 --> 01:40:12,180
I've got to go.
1286
01:40:12,251 --> 01:40:13,479
Yeah, you'd better go.
1287
01:40:13,553 --> 01:40:15,578
- Good night, Miss Barrett.
- Good night, Roy.
1288
01:40:15,655 --> 01:40:18,419
Won't you sit down please, Mrs. Lewes?
1289
01:40:19,525 --> 01:40:22,358
I'm very pleased to meet Roy's mother.
1290
01:40:23,496 --> 01:40:27,432
- He seems very cooperative in class...
- What if I'm not his mother?
1291
01:40:27,500 --> 01:40:29,127
But Roy said that you were his mother.
1292
01:40:29,202 --> 01:40:31,602
But what if I told him to say so?
1293
01:40:31,871 --> 01:40:34,965
Just in case only mothers
were allowed here tonight.
1294
01:40:35,108 --> 01:40:36,132
And fathers.
1295
01:40:36,209 --> 01:40:38,939
Oh, I'm a mother,
but I've got four of my own.
1296
01:40:39,112 --> 01:40:41,580
- But I'm not his mother.
- Oh, if you're related, then it's...
1297
01:40:41,647 --> 01:40:43,808
He lives with us on the sofa.
1298
01:40:45,251 --> 01:40:47,651
I think he knows who his real mother is,
1299
01:40:47,720 --> 01:40:49,449
but I don't know.
1300
01:40:49,589 --> 01:40:52,922
I never told him. Nobody did.
Nobody would do that to him.
1301
01:40:54,127 --> 01:40:56,118
I think he just picked her out on his own.
1302
01:40:56,195 --> 01:40:58,527
I've seen him looking at her.
1303
01:40:58,798 --> 01:41:01,392
She works that block, pretty much.
1304
01:41:02,135 --> 01:41:04,797
He's had about 10 mothers
between her and me.
1305
01:41:04,871 --> 01:41:06,099
Neighbors.
1306
01:41:06,172 --> 01:41:08,106
He'd stay with a neighbor
until they moved out
1307
01:41:08,174 --> 01:41:12,338
and then he'd just sit on the stoop
and wait for another neighbor to say,
1308
01:41:12,411 --> 01:41:14,174
"Come on in, Roy."
1309
01:41:16,249 --> 01:41:18,683
Can I stay, even though I'm not a parent?
1310
01:41:20,119 --> 01:41:22,349
Of course... Of course you can.
1311
01:41:25,725 --> 01:41:29,889
I've come about that D you gave Roy
at midterms.
1312
01:41:30,696 --> 01:41:33,426
The trouble is, Mrs. Lewes,
1313
01:41:34,033 --> 01:41:36,900
he doesn't pay attention during class.
His mind wanders, you know.
1314
01:41:36,969 --> 01:41:38,596
Go on, say it.
1315
01:41:39,438 --> 01:41:41,599
He goes to sleep.
1316
01:41:43,342 --> 01:41:44,900
He goes to sleep.
1317
01:41:45,111 --> 01:41:46,976
And that's why you gave him a D?
1318
01:41:47,046 --> 01:41:49,606
That's why he gave himself a D.
1319
01:41:52,552 --> 01:41:56,113
Oh, you're pretty. You're very pretty.
1320
01:41:57,990 --> 01:42:00,424
You know, he didn't want me
to come here tonight.
1321
01:42:00,493 --> 01:42:04,020
And when he saw I was really going
to come, he didn't want to come with me.
1322
01:42:04,096 --> 01:42:05,688
But I made him do it.
1323
01:42:05,765 --> 01:42:07,596
Oh, he listens.
1324
01:42:07,667 --> 01:42:10,761
I wanted him to come here
so you could see him go
1325
01:42:11,003 --> 01:42:14,097
to work at 8:30 p.m. In that garage
1326
01:42:14,173 --> 01:42:15,765
all night.
1327
01:42:16,075 --> 01:42:18,270
I wanted you to see him go.
1328
01:42:19,011 --> 01:42:21,479
He brings home all his money.
1329
01:42:22,381 --> 01:42:23,780
How's my five minutes?
1330
01:42:25,484 --> 01:42:26,883
Just begun.
1331
01:42:28,287 --> 01:42:30,983
He wants to be around cars, Roy.
1332
01:42:31,057 --> 01:42:34,686
But he wants to be good at being
around cars, so he wants to graduate.
1333
01:42:35,094 --> 01:42:38,723
I don't see how one follows the other,
but he says it does.
1334
01:42:38,798 --> 01:42:42,256
He's got this made-up mind
about cars and graduation.
1335
01:42:43,336 --> 01:42:45,827
But you don't graduate from nowhere
with D's.
1336
01:42:47,206 --> 01:42:49,674
Well, there are things that he can do
for extra credit.
1337
01:42:49,742 --> 01:42:51,300
Now I'm... I will help him.
1338
01:42:51,377 --> 01:42:55,507
What good is English to him when all
he wants to do is to be around cars?
1339
01:42:57,617 --> 01:43:01,849
He's not like... Like other kids
to look at them and drive them.
1340
01:43:02,388 --> 01:43:06,017
He wants to work around cars.
1341
01:43:06,092 --> 01:43:08,253
What good is English to him?
1342
01:43:09,495 --> 01:43:12,862
If he wants to graduate,
it must be important to him.
1343
01:43:13,900 --> 01:43:15,595
Then why not pass him on?
1344
01:43:15,668 --> 01:43:17,260
It's no skin off your pretty nose.
1345
01:43:17,336 --> 01:43:18,633
Miss Barrett.
1346
01:43:18,704 --> 01:43:23,164
Miss Barrett, I believe. I'm Alberta Kagan,
mother of Harry A. Kagan,
1347
01:43:23,309 --> 01:43:25,607
President of the General Organization.
1348
01:43:25,678 --> 01:43:28,875
Oh, I hope I'm not interrupting.
1349
01:43:29,081 --> 01:43:31,174
No, ma'am, I'm through.
1350
01:43:31,617 --> 01:43:33,482
Mrs. Lewes, please sit down.
1351
01:43:35,054 --> 01:43:37,079
I won't keep you a minute, Miss Barrett.
1352
01:43:37,156 --> 01:43:40,250
I just wanted to give myself the pleasure
of making the acquaintance
1353
01:43:40,326 --> 01:43:42,590
of such a lovely teacher like yourself.
1354
01:43:43,396 --> 01:43:47,765
A book like Silas Marner can mean
a lot to a boy like Rusty, Mr. O'Brien,
1355
01:43:47,833 --> 01:43:49,562
even if it was written by a woman.
1356
01:43:49,635 --> 01:43:54,470
It's about people's responsibility
to one another and parental love.
1357
01:43:54,740 --> 01:43:57,231
His mother already gave him
too much parental love.
1358
01:43:59,178 --> 01:44:01,612
The story can help him understand
1359
01:44:03,015 --> 01:44:06,576
such things from an adult point of view
rather than a child's point of view.
1360
01:44:06,652 --> 01:44:09,018
It can help prepare him to become a man.
1361
01:44:09,088 --> 01:44:11,113
You think he's not a man?
1362
01:44:11,490 --> 01:44:14,459
For example,
when we finish reading the book,
1363
01:44:14,527 --> 01:44:16,757
we are going to improvise a trial.
1364
01:44:16,829 --> 01:44:20,196
And Rusty...
Rusty is going to be the defendant.
1365
01:44:20,566 --> 01:44:24,935
Through the story, he will know
what it means to stand up for himself.
1366
01:44:25,304 --> 01:44:28,102
They tried to teach him self-defense
at the youth center.
1367
01:44:28,741 --> 01:44:31,005
He came home.
1368
01:44:32,645 --> 01:44:36,843
I'm... I'm not talking about
that kind of self-defense.
1369
01:44:38,617 --> 01:44:40,517
Yeah.
1370
01:44:40,586 --> 01:44:44,920
Well, I just wanted to see
what was going on in here.
1371
01:45:21,227 --> 01:45:22,854
Joe?
1372
01:45:25,164 --> 01:45:27,598
Did you bring your parents to see me?
1373
01:45:35,207 --> 01:45:37,471
Joe, it's 10:30.
1374
01:45:48,554 --> 01:45:50,385
Are you in trouble?
1375
01:46:03,035 --> 01:46:04,730
Came for our talk.
1376
01:46:13,312 --> 01:46:16,611
No, I meant after school.
1377
01:46:17,349 --> 01:46:19,180
This is after school.
1378
01:46:25,458 --> 01:46:28,757
Well, we're not supposed
to be in the building now.
1379
01:46:33,399 --> 01:46:35,799
You wanna go someplace else?
1380
01:46:37,803 --> 01:46:39,532
I want you to go home.
1381
01:46:42,508 --> 01:46:43,941
Look, I'm here.
1382
01:46:45,010 --> 01:46:47,706
Isn't that what you wanted?
1383
01:46:52,451 --> 01:46:55,750
Custodian will be checking the rooms
in a minute.
1384
01:47:04,964 --> 01:47:07,455
You want it in the dark?
1385
01:47:14,173 --> 01:47:15,435
Joe.
1386
01:47:16,175 --> 01:47:18,666
Joe, please, turn on the lights.
1387
01:47:26,252 --> 01:47:28,550
What is it, Teach?
1388
01:47:29,688 --> 01:47:31,656
Ever since the first day of school,
1389
01:47:32,791 --> 01:47:36,784
defending me with McHabe,
breaking rules for me, getting into trouble.
1390
01:47:38,831 --> 01:47:41,698
Maybe I'm what they call
a low under-achiever.
1391
01:47:43,035 --> 01:47:45,526
Took me long to figure it out.
1392
01:47:45,604 --> 01:47:47,902
But I figured it out.
1393
01:47:53,679 --> 01:47:55,271
Oh, Joe.
1394
01:47:56,515 --> 01:47:59,712
Is that the only reason you can think of?
1395
01:47:59,818 --> 01:48:01,285
What else?
1396
01:48:01,787 --> 01:48:05,917
Always wanting to see me
after school, alone.
1397
01:48:06,525 --> 01:48:08,390
Well, we're alone now.
1398
01:48:24,043 --> 01:48:26,705
- Finally got to me, Teach.
- No.
1399
01:48:27,479 --> 01:48:29,970
Joe, oh, Joe, no.
1400
01:49:05,317 --> 01:49:08,150
I've come to submit my resignation,
Dr. Bester.
1401
01:49:11,790 --> 01:49:14,224
On the basis
of less than a term's experience?
1402
01:49:14,293 --> 01:49:17,091
I will finish out the term, of course.
1403
01:49:23,502 --> 01:49:27,063
Do you think you've given us
a fair chance, Miss Barrett?
1404
01:49:27,606 --> 01:49:30,803
I have given myself a fair chance,
in and out of the classroom.
1405
01:49:30,876 --> 01:49:33,242
I have used everything I ever learned,
1406
01:49:33,412 --> 01:49:36,506
every instinct I have
or thought I had about teaching.
1407
01:49:36,815 --> 01:49:40,774
And you've decided
you're not cut out to be a teacher.
1408
01:49:41,553 --> 01:49:42,884
Not here.
1409
01:49:46,825 --> 01:49:50,317
You know, when I visited your class,
1410
01:49:50,396 --> 01:49:53,194
I did notice certain deficiencies
in your methods,
1411
01:49:53,599 --> 01:49:56,090
but I put them down to inexperience,
1412
01:49:57,102 --> 01:50:00,629
because you are a born teacher,
Miss Barrett.
1413
01:50:02,241 --> 01:50:03,230
Not here.
1414
01:50:03,475 --> 01:50:06,308
You say that as if that's your point.
1415
01:50:06,712 --> 01:50:09,180
There are better schools, we all know.
1416
01:50:09,448 --> 01:50:11,780
But there are worse.
1417
01:50:11,850 --> 01:50:16,480
And whatever waste, stupidity,
ineptitude you've found,
1418
01:50:17,389 --> 01:50:20,790
whatever problems and frustrations
of teachers and pupils,
1419
01:50:20,859 --> 01:50:25,262
something very exciting is going on,
even here.
1420
01:50:25,464 --> 01:50:28,627
In each of the classrooms,
on each of the floors, all at the same time,
1421
01:50:28,701 --> 01:50:30,635
education is going on.
1422
01:50:31,270 --> 01:50:34,535
In some form or other, for all its abuses,
1423
01:50:35,007 --> 01:50:37,942
young people are being exposed
to education.
1424
01:50:39,244 --> 01:50:40,575
Even here.
1425
01:50:44,283 --> 01:50:48,310
A teacher should be able to get through
to her students,
1426
01:50:48,554 --> 01:50:49,851
even here.
1427
01:50:52,858 --> 01:50:53,847
Very well.
1428
01:50:55,661 --> 01:50:57,856
Write a letter to the Board of Education.
1429
01:50:57,930 --> 01:51:00,763
They'll send you the proper form
for resignation.
1430
01:51:02,267 --> 01:51:04,201
Thank you, Dr. Bester.
1431
01:51:19,284 --> 01:51:21,912
Sylvia, Sylvia!
1432
01:51:32,564 --> 01:51:35,533
I suppose you're ticking off the number
of times you have left to walk this block.
1433
01:51:35,601 --> 01:51:37,501
Thirty-two.
1434
01:51:37,569 --> 01:51:38,934
Hi, Eddie.
1435
01:51:40,172 --> 01:51:42,003
And then what?
1436
01:51:42,074 --> 01:51:45,271
I've made application
to several private schools.
1437
01:51:45,344 --> 01:51:47,335
Well, Joe Ferone never came back, did he?
1438
01:51:48,180 --> 01:51:50,478
One or two
have expressed interest already.
1439
01:51:50,682 --> 01:51:52,547
Oh, you'll find some place
1440
01:51:53,152 --> 01:51:56,918
with white columns and green lawns
and high tuition.
1441
01:51:57,089 --> 01:52:00,217
And you'll sit in a quiet room
1442
01:52:00,492 --> 01:52:03,586
with eight or 10 well-dressed students,
teaching Chaucer.
1443
01:52:03,796 --> 01:52:05,821
In Old English, I'd dare say.
1444
01:52:06,165 --> 01:52:09,965
And they'll be so polite,
they'll let you love them, without risk.
1445
01:52:20,746 --> 01:52:21,974
Miss Finch.
1446
01:52:23,015 --> 01:52:25,313
They keep sending me retirement forms.
1447
01:52:25,384 --> 01:52:28,376
What I need is a resignation form.
1448
01:52:30,422 --> 01:52:32,390
They even make it hard for you to give up.
1449
01:52:32,458 --> 01:52:35,154
Maybe you should give up giving up.
1450
01:52:39,965 --> 01:52:40,954
Syl.
1451
01:52:44,169 --> 01:52:47,297
The Teacher's Interest Committee
is planning a gala luncheon
1452
01:52:47,372 --> 01:52:49,431
on the last day of school before Christmas.
1453
01:52:49,508 --> 01:52:52,170
- Henrietta, are you all right?
- Oh, Syl.
1454
01:52:54,980 --> 01:52:56,914
Bob Whiteside.
1455
01:52:56,982 --> 01:52:59,450
I went into the book room
yesterday afternoon late.
1456
01:52:59,518 --> 01:53:01,543
I just opened the door.
1457
01:53:01,620 --> 01:53:04,248
My Bob Whiteside with Linda Rosen.
1458
01:53:04,790 --> 01:53:09,625
Your Linda Rosen. Why, he won the essay
contest, and she can't even spell.
1459
01:53:10,896 --> 01:53:15,094
Do you want the chicken patty
with the cream sauce or fillet of sole?
1460
01:53:16,235 --> 01:53:18,226
- Patty.
- Patty.
1461
01:53:23,642 --> 01:53:26,042
Look at this lvanhoe, Mr. McHabe.
1462
01:53:27,446 --> 01:53:28,879
Gutted.
1463
01:53:28,947 --> 01:53:31,609
It's been used to carry something
in and out of this building.
1464
01:53:31,717 --> 01:53:33,947
Something filthy, you can be sure.
1465
01:53:34,019 --> 01:53:37,079
Who would dare to do that to lvanhoe?
1466
01:53:40,993 --> 01:53:44,520
Miss Barrett, you said we could
turn in extra-credit book reports,
1467
01:53:44,730 --> 01:53:47,597
and due to midterms and horsing
around, I need that "E" credit.
1468
01:53:47,699 --> 01:53:52,295
So here's a myth report, Miss Barrett,
about Venus and Adonis. Funny, huh?
1469
01:53:53,005 --> 01:53:54,529
Thank you, Lou.
1470
01:53:55,474 --> 01:53:57,601
You gotta pass me on, Miss Barrett.
1471
01:53:57,676 --> 01:53:59,871
It's just my spelling that keeps me back.
1472
01:54:00,445 --> 01:54:03,073
At home, they won't let me drop out.
1473
01:54:03,549 --> 01:54:05,414
Class, class, please.
1474
01:54:05,484 --> 01:54:07,179
Class, pay attention.
1475
01:54:07,319 --> 01:54:08,308
Class.
1476
01:54:08,620 --> 01:54:11,418
Come on now, we don't have
all sorts of time, class, please!
1477
01:54:12,391 --> 01:54:16,452
Now, boys, Herbie, Ronnie, please.
Now, listen.
1478
01:54:16,762 --> 01:54:19,424
The jury pool sits down in the auditorium.
1479
01:54:19,498 --> 01:54:23,059
Will you please take your seats there
until you're called for examination?
1480
01:54:23,135 --> 01:54:25,330
Now, go quickly and go quietly.
1481
01:54:25,737 --> 01:54:26,726
Quietly.
1482
01:54:28,407 --> 01:54:30,534
Quietly. Listen to your teacher, now.
1483
01:54:30,776 --> 01:54:34,143
Prosecuting... Prosecuting attorney
sits here.
1484
01:54:34,212 --> 01:54:36,942
Lou? Lou. You there.
1485
01:54:38,116 --> 01:54:40,277
The plaintiff here. Wooley, right here.
1486
01:54:40,352 --> 01:54:42,183
Now, who's my defendant?
1487
01:54:42,254 --> 01:54:43,778
- Where's my defendant?
- That's me, Miss Barrett.
1488
01:54:43,855 --> 01:54:46,449
Rusty, defense attorney.
1489
01:54:46,525 --> 01:54:50,393
Well, Harry, stop trying to influence
the witnesses ahead of time,
1490
01:54:50,696 --> 01:54:53,096
and take your seat
next to your client, please.
1491
01:54:54,466 --> 01:54:57,902
Now the... The court clerk sits in here.
1492
01:54:59,037 --> 01:55:00,595
Gary, that's you. Right down here.
1493
01:55:00,672 --> 01:55:02,606
Don't look so worried.
All you have to do is write down
1494
01:55:02,741 --> 01:55:06,802
everything that's said and repeat it back
if the judge asks you to.
1495
01:55:07,512 --> 01:55:09,878
Now, let's see. My witnesses.
1496
01:55:10,048 --> 01:55:11,845
Witnesses will sit along here.
1497
01:55:11,917 --> 01:55:15,216
Girls, everybody along here,
we'll pretend as if there's a railing.
1498
01:55:15,621 --> 01:55:18,089
Miss Barrett, I'm not prepared to testify.
1499
01:55:18,190 --> 01:55:20,556
Well, in that case,
1500
01:55:20,692 --> 01:55:26,426
we'll just have to have the two attorneys
examine you as a hostile witness.
1501
01:55:27,466 --> 01:55:28,455
Lou.
1502
01:55:28,900 --> 01:55:30,834
Harry, take a note on that, now.
1503
01:55:30,902 --> 01:55:33,063
Meanwhile, Lennie, will you just take
your place with the others?
1504
01:55:33,138 --> 01:55:35,572
Now, let's see, what else... Oh, the judge.
1505
01:55:37,542 --> 01:55:40,875
Whom did I... Did I appoint judge?
Doesn't anyone remember?
1506
01:55:40,946 --> 01:55:43,346
I think it was Jose Rodriguez,
Miss Barrett.
1507
01:55:43,448 --> 01:55:46,144
Yes, it was Jose. Now where...
I wonder where...
1508
01:55:46,218 --> 01:55:47,708
Where is Jose?
1509
01:55:47,819 --> 01:55:52,222
Well, knowing the fellow only slightly as I
do, in which case I'm sure I'm not alone,
1510
01:55:52,290 --> 01:55:54,918
I would think he probably
got frightened at the last moment.
1511
01:55:54,993 --> 01:55:57,427
Cold feet!
1512
01:55:57,996 --> 01:55:59,759
Lou, Lou.
1513
01:55:59,965 --> 01:56:02,365
Enough is enough. Come on, sit down.
1514
01:56:02,934 --> 01:56:06,563
In that case, I'm going to have
to appoint another judge.
1515
01:56:06,638 --> 01:56:09,436
Now, do I have any volunteers?
1516
01:56:09,608 --> 01:56:10,802
No?
1517
01:56:19,985 --> 01:56:22,044
Class, class.
1518
01:56:30,195 --> 01:56:31,685
You're late, Jose.
1519
01:56:32,864 --> 01:56:36,698
Members of the court are supposed
to address the judge as Your Honor.
1520
01:56:36,768 --> 01:56:38,793
Even teachers.
1521
01:56:42,040 --> 01:56:44,600
Well, we'd almost given you up,
Your Honor.
1522
01:57:05,697 --> 01:57:08,723
The judge is supposed to be the last one
to enter the court.
1523
01:57:08,800 --> 01:57:10,893
He don't need no late pass.
1524
01:57:28,620 --> 01:57:30,952
Court clerk's supposed to say
they gotta rise.
1525
01:57:31,022 --> 01:57:33,013
He says you gotta get up.
1526
01:57:35,727 --> 01:57:38,423
The judge says the court clerk says.
1527
01:57:38,497 --> 01:57:40,522
The judge says I say.
1528
01:57:47,873 --> 01:57:49,170
You, too.
1529
01:57:54,813 --> 01:57:57,509
This here court is now in session.
1530
01:58:06,525 --> 01:58:09,619
The case of Silas Marner
versus Godfrey Cass
1531
01:58:09,995 --> 01:58:13,761
for the custody of the child
known as Eppie, by George Eliot.
1532
01:58:17,803 --> 01:58:19,395
I object, Your Honor, I object.
1533
01:58:19,471 --> 01:58:20,529
Objection overruled!
1534
01:58:20,605 --> 01:58:23,472
Your Honor's overruled every objection
this defense has made.
1535
01:58:23,608 --> 01:58:24,768
Maybe I'm stupid,
1536
01:58:24,843 --> 01:58:26,708
but I'm the judge and you gotta listen.
1537
01:58:26,778 --> 01:58:30,737
I challenge Your Honor to
your knowledge of court procedure.
1538
01:58:30,882 --> 01:58:33,476
I ought to know, I been.
1539
01:58:39,157 --> 01:58:43,389
Quiet. This here court will get quiet,
or you'll be charged with contempt.
1540
01:58:47,065 --> 01:58:50,296
Because the bell is about to ring, it would
be a waste of the taxpayers' money
1541
01:58:50,368 --> 01:58:52,359
to call the next witness.
1542
01:58:52,904 --> 01:58:56,271
Members of the jury are instructed
not to discuss the details of the case
1543
01:58:56,341 --> 01:58:59,401
in any manner, ways, means,
shape or form.
1544
01:58:59,644 --> 01:59:03,045
Members of the court are to leave
in an orderly fashion by ones and twos,
1545
01:59:03,114 --> 01:59:07,016
with no talking and to proceed
to their next class without delay.
1546
01:59:07,552 --> 01:59:11,318
This court is adjourned
until the same time tomorrow morning.
1547
01:59:19,030 --> 01:59:20,622
Hey, we go to lunch?
1548
01:59:36,548 --> 01:59:37,913
Miss Barrett.
1549
01:59:42,754 --> 01:59:45,120
I'm sorry you're leaving us.
1550
01:59:45,991 --> 01:59:48,551
And I wish you happiness
in your new school.
1551
01:59:53,899 --> 01:59:56,026
Miss Barrett...
1552
01:59:56,735 --> 01:59:58,066
I'm Me.
1553
02:00:01,473 --> 02:00:04,931
In the suggestion box, I'm Me.
1554
02:00:11,583 --> 02:00:14,848
Thank you for telling me, Jose.
And thank you.
1555
02:00:18,290 --> 02:00:21,384
I just wanted you to know.
1556
02:00:23,361 --> 02:00:27,024
I think your English this term
was the greatest subject I ever had.
1557
02:00:59,564 --> 02:01:02,158
Oh, Miss Barrett, Miss Barrett!
1558
02:01:05,136 --> 02:01:07,934
Your resignation form has come through.
1559
02:01:12,577 --> 02:01:14,807
Fill it out now and return it to me.
1560
02:01:14,879 --> 02:01:16,278
Later on, there'll be other forms.
1561
02:01:16,348 --> 02:01:19,647
And your keys, don't lose any of your keys.
1562
02:01:28,860 --> 02:01:32,921
If I fill this out I will be late
for my next class, Miss Finch.
1563
02:01:35,934 --> 02:01:38,732
Oh, Miss Barrett, it has come to
my attention that one of your students,
1564
02:01:38,803 --> 02:01:42,830
namely Jose Rodriguez, has pilfered
a graduation robe and mortarboard
1565
02:01:42,907 --> 02:01:44,966
from the supply room.
1566
02:02:20,211 --> 02:02:21,508
Hi, Teach.
1567
02:02:21,913 --> 02:02:22,902
Hi, Pupe.
1568
02:03:38,623 --> 02:03:39,612
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