0:00:10 > 0:00:13If I had to describe O-W in one word,
0:00:13 > 0:00:14a real diamond.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16Mind-blowing.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19- Surprising.- Drama.- Swag.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24- Over the top.- It's crazy. - Oh, my God!
0:00:26 > 0:00:27- Problems.- Discombobulated.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29This ain't no fairytale high school.
0:00:29 > 0:00:33This ain't no fairytale story. Everything is real here.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36CHEERING
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Class of 2016!
0:00:44 > 0:00:47At O-W, you see black people 98% of the time.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52You share pain, you share tears.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54We are lifelong friends forever.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Teachers, please close all doors. We are in an active hall sweep.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11I'm a senior and it's make or break time for me.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14I'm about to get ready to leave high school.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Y'all going to jail cos y'all in a stolen car.
0:01:17 > 0:01:18Come on, Ra Ra!
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Oh, yeah!
0:01:27 > 0:01:31I am so proud of you because I know you have overcome obstacles
0:01:31 > 0:01:33to make it to this day.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35CHEERING
0:01:52 > 0:01:54BUZZING
0:01:54 > 0:01:56The season is over with now.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Basketball is just a small part of your life.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03The reality is you wanting to be able to provide for your daughter,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06that's the whole purpose of you going to school.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10There's a lot on my plate and I'm trying to contemplate my next move.
0:02:10 > 0:02:15- Here we go!- 'I was homeless, but what changed my life?'
0:02:15 > 0:02:16Breana Davis!
0:02:16 > 0:02:18- Vernon?- Yes?- Come here.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22'He ended up staying with me and my mother.'
0:02:22 > 0:02:24No, she hadn't said anything to me.
0:02:24 > 0:02:25Right, wow!
0:02:25 > 0:02:29Parents calling me to help turn their lights back on.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32I mean, how did we get to this point?
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Just do me a favour, go right now.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48You've got, like, three minutes to get there.
0:02:48 > 0:02:53Do not get caught in the hallways past the tardy bell.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58'We are in spring season and I'm operating on adrenaline
0:02:58 > 0:03:02'because I know that there's an enormous amount of work to be done.'
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Let's go!
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Let's go, let's go, let's go!
0:03:06 > 0:03:09'Changing school culture's not an easy task.'
0:03:09 > 0:03:12- Let's go!- LET'S GO!
0:03:12 > 0:03:14- Y'all late, what are you standing there for?- Let's go.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17'It's a challenge for me to see success now.'
0:03:17 > 0:03:20TANNOY: Teachers, please close all doors.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22We are in an active hall sweep.
0:03:22 > 0:03:27Teachers, please close all doors. We are in active hall sweep.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Let's go!
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Let's go, auditorium.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34We've got to go. We've got to go to the auditorium.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38He's OK. Let's go, no excuses! The auditorium, let's go!
0:03:38 > 0:03:42- I was right there by the door. - Auditorium, let's go, move.
0:03:42 > 0:03:43Where are you going?
0:03:43 > 0:03:44Hey, if I've got to come get you,
0:03:44 > 0:03:46we ain't going to see you the rest of this week.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49My knee hurts. I'm walking, I'm trying to walk.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Walk on in.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53Close the door, please.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Today, you got caught.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00A lot of you are failing because you are late to class.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03That's my job to fix.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07- Is that clear?- Yes, sir. - Is that clear?- Yes.
0:04:07 > 0:04:14Suspensions are going to be issued today because I am not playing.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17- Ooooh!- He don't care. I care.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18I've never been suspended before
0:04:18 > 0:04:21and I got a day because the teacher went, "Close the door."
0:04:21 > 0:04:23Hey, they got a day home and I don't get no days home
0:04:23 > 0:04:26cos you know what I'm saying, I'm bossed up, you feel me?
0:04:26 > 0:04:29What's up, man? I wish everybody would do like you.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33- Just do the right thing cos it's the right thing to do.- Ohhhh!
0:04:33 > 0:04:36BELL RINGS
0:04:42 > 0:04:47I want to be successful. And I will. That's my biggest goal.
0:04:47 > 0:04:52Get away from Orangeburg, South Carolina. Let's just leave.
0:04:52 > 0:04:53I don't want to be here.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56The sky is the limit.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00I'm going to make it easy cos I'm going to be that one kid
0:05:00 > 0:05:03that do whatever it takes. You don't always get opportunities.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06Sometimes, you have to make opportunities.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08It's not going to just come for you. You've got to go get it.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15- Whassup?- You all right? - Oh, do I get a hug?
0:05:15 > 0:05:18- Good morning, Mr Hall. - Good morning, Miss Mack.
0:05:18 > 0:05:23- I'll take that.- I love you, too. - Walk with me.- Walk with you?- Please.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27- Why do you need me to walk with you? - Please.- Are you serious?
0:05:27 > 0:05:31'All my kids are my babies, but with TJ,'
0:05:31 > 0:05:35you know, I've really just, I've taken him on.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38- What's up, Mack?- What's up?- What's up, Mack? What's cooking, bro?
0:05:38 > 0:05:41- 'I just connected with him.' - OK, today, I'm your teacher.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44My name is Anthony Mack and I'll be teaching Algebra 1.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46- LAUGHTER - All right, guys, in your seats.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Aww, why you got to crash the party?
0:05:49 > 0:05:51'He's a smart kid.'
0:05:51 > 0:05:52I see this great, bright future,
0:05:52 > 0:05:55but he just needs this guidance and he wants that.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56He wants it, too.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58BELL RINGS
0:06:05 > 0:06:09I didn't know... Like, you see this part right here?
0:06:09 > 0:06:12- You wanted that like that?- Yeah. - All right, I was just making sure.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16- What colours of shoestrings you putting in?- White.- White?
0:06:16 > 0:06:20- Try the rainbow.- Rainbow? - Rainbow shoestrings.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23'I like customising shoes.'
0:06:23 > 0:06:24I don't want to be like nobody else,
0:06:24 > 0:06:28like having my own shoes. Yeah, but I'm like...
0:06:28 > 0:06:32I want to have people thinking, "Are those real?" I mean, they are.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36Everybody don't normally dress up. People ask me why I dress up.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37Cos I got to look different.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41I want to look like a young man, a young gentleman at that.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44My swag is different.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48These were some basketball shoes. They not really all that.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50I just be messing up stuff sometimes.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54See how I got the little blue spots and stuff on there?
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Everybody was wondering how I did that.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57And these are shoes my father made.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00They're valuable because my father made them
0:07:00 > 0:07:04and he in prison right now and I know that his hands was on these
0:07:04 > 0:07:07so if I grab them, I'm, like, feeling his hand.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Like, I can feel him.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11He put all this stuff right here on.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13He told me he was doing, like,
0:07:13 > 0:07:15staples and stitch it up a little bit.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17I'm trying to find out how he did that.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21The part I really like is I've got a pocket right here,
0:07:21 > 0:07:23I can drop some money down there, you know?
0:07:23 > 0:07:28We just keep this for, like, love so when he get out, he be like, "Wow!"
0:08:03 > 0:08:05AIR HORN BLARES
0:08:16 > 0:08:19MUSIC: Ima Boss by Meek Mill featuring Rick Ross
0:08:27 > 0:08:30I can just do whatever I want to do.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Anything I want to do, I can go do it.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Your next doctor's appointment is going to be today.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Once we go there, they're probably just going to end up
0:09:05 > 0:09:07checking the baby's heartbeat
0:09:07 > 0:09:11and next time you go back, you'll be going back every week
0:09:11 > 0:09:15so that they can check on the baby cos the baby's almost here!
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Yaay! Y'all excited?
0:09:18 > 0:09:21- Erm...- Oh, you're not?
0:09:25 > 0:09:31We're just so excited and we're ready for Harmony to arrive.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47Hey, hey, hey! Go back in there, tell them to hurry up.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51- Hey, hurry up.- All right, thank you.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55- Why do you have your hat on in the building?- I'm going to go outside.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57OK, well, wait till you get outside. Thank you very much.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59No, you're supposed to be in class.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01No, I'm not. I just came.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03- When did you get back? - When the bell...
0:10:03 > 0:10:04OK, so where you supposed to be...
0:10:04 > 0:10:06You're waiting to go to fourth bell?
0:10:06 > 0:10:09- Yes!- OK, all right, calm down!
0:10:09 > 0:10:11- Pump your brakes. - I'm just saying, like, why do you...
0:10:11 > 0:10:13How long have you been back in the building?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15- Just now.- OK.- The bus just came.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19A little more effort would have gotten you a raise in your GPA.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22Algebra 1, you have to pass.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25- You can do better.- I know.
0:10:25 > 0:10:30Two points from a C? Now, why in this class do you have a 60?
0:10:30 > 0:10:32I've got to get on that now.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36But here's the thing - this is an easy A or B.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39- I know.- That's what's going to boost you.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43'TJ has a really rough story and when his dad went to prison,'
0:10:43 > 0:10:47he was probably angry and upset and he started acting out
0:10:47 > 0:10:52and instead of at that point getting counselling and getting help
0:10:52 > 0:10:56to redirect his emotions into something positive,
0:10:56 > 0:10:59he was told that he was like his dad.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02- You had told me that he was getting out soon.- Oh, yeah.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06He getting out in, like, I think one more year, I think, or two more.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08I just pray that he get out earlier.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10My uncle supposed to be coming home, too, so he might come home
0:11:10 > 0:11:12at the same time and we might have a big party for them.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Your uncle's in prison? You didn't tell me your uncle was.
0:11:14 > 0:11:20- Is he your dad's brother?- My momma's only brother.- What happened there?
0:11:21 > 0:11:23- Drugs.- That makes me nervous.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26It's easy to get caught up in that stuff, especially in high school.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29You are paying attention to that stuff, though, right?
0:11:29 > 0:11:30Yes, cos that's what my daddy told me.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32He said he don't want me to make that same mistake he made
0:11:32 > 0:11:34and my uncle, I just talked to him the other day,
0:11:34 > 0:11:36he was like, "I'll jack you over
0:11:36 > 0:11:38"if I ever catch you doing what I was doing."
0:11:38 > 0:11:41'My father been locked up for six or seven years,'
0:11:41 > 0:11:45but you know what they say about kids whose father went to jail -
0:11:45 > 0:11:47they going to go to jail, too.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49That's not going to happen to me.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52So, you really need to stay on these grades and that's part of,
0:11:52 > 0:11:56- like, being an advocate for yourself, OK?- Yes, ma'am.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58- BELL RINGS - All right, that's your next class.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02- So, you need to stay up on these, OK?- Yes.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04Miss Hart, did you call this student Abiyomi?
0:12:04 > 0:12:06I called this student Abiyomi.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10- She's not in class. - What class was that?- Mr Lewis.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13So, she's not in class.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15BEEPING All units -
0:12:15 > 0:12:18if you see Abiyomi, please radio me.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22'Discipline, man, it's a day-to-day grind.'
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Hey, Mr Lewis, did Abiyomi come to class at fourth bell?
0:12:25 > 0:12:28- No, she didn't.- Haven't seen her? - I haven't seen her.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33'The majority of it is a lack of focus.'
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Young lady... Young lady!
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Where were you in your fourth block? Who checked you out?
0:12:38 > 0:12:40What do you mean who checked me out? My momma came and got me.
0:12:40 > 0:12:44- She signed you out?- I went out that way.- You've got to sign out.
0:12:44 > 0:12:45You can't just leave school.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47So you know I'm going to verify that
0:12:47 > 0:12:50- with your mom this morning, right?- OK.- OK.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54'I have found myself on that verge of losing patience
0:12:54 > 0:12:55'with some of our students.'
0:12:55 > 0:12:57Yesterday, you didn't do what's right.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00- Cos I left school early with my momma?- No.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Don't give me an attitude. I'm the wrong one to give the attitude.
0:13:04 > 0:13:09- All right, well...- Listen, I'm the principal, you know what I'm saying?
0:13:09 > 0:13:12- OK.- So, what you need to do right now is pump your brakes.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16- You need to calm yourself down.- I'm calm.- No, you're not.- I'm very calm.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19No, you're not because you're about to take me up here where you are
0:13:19 > 0:13:23and I'm going to tell you right now, you don't want that.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25You don't want me to be up where you are.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28'And that's not a win-win scenario
0:13:28 > 0:13:31'when you've got a teacher agitated and a child agitated.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34'That frustrates me.'
0:13:34 > 0:13:37All right, you know I'm around the hallways and everywhere else.
0:13:37 > 0:13:38All right.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54And they said something, they was, like...
0:13:54 > 0:13:59Erm, they said something and I was like, "What?!"
0:13:59 > 0:14:03- I did that, I was like, "What?!" - Did your head turn like that?
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Yeah, I was like, "What?!" I know!
0:14:07 > 0:14:13'Vernon has been living with me for about six months, maybe.'
0:14:13 > 0:14:16It's been a while.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19Oh, what's Momma cooking?
0:14:19 > 0:14:20Bree came picked me up from work and we were like,
0:14:20 > 0:14:24"He has nowhere to go," so what was I to do?
0:14:24 > 0:14:27I couldn't just leave him out on the streets, you know,
0:14:27 > 0:14:29he had nowhere to go.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32- It wasn't much of a big deal. - It really wasn't.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34It's not like we have a house full and we're like,
0:14:34 > 0:14:37"Oh, no, we can't have no more people here." No.
0:14:37 > 0:14:42I know since we moved here, he's always seemed troubled, you know,
0:14:42 > 0:14:46like you could tell there wasn't much structure wherever he was.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50I feel like I never had this type of support before,
0:14:50 > 0:14:55like I had this support, but I just didn't feel like I had it
0:14:55 > 0:14:58and, like, Shanika, she makes me feel like I have that support
0:14:58 > 0:15:00because she's not going to tell me nothing wrong,
0:15:00 > 0:15:02she's always going to tell me the truth
0:15:02 > 0:15:04and she going to give it to you nice, nasty and raw.
0:15:04 > 0:15:10He snuck out one night and I made him sleep outside, like,
0:15:10 > 0:15:12because you left out of my house,
0:15:12 > 0:15:16you left my door unlocked - Bree was upstairs, she didn't even know
0:15:16 > 0:15:20you were gone - so, yeah, when I got home,
0:15:20 > 0:15:24I locked my doors and I locked you out and it was freezing.
0:15:24 > 0:15:25And she was like,
0:15:25 > 0:15:27"You'd better not let him in or you'll be out there, too."
0:15:27 > 0:15:30I was like, "Sorry, buddy, you'll have to take this all by yourself."
0:15:30 > 0:15:33He was throwing rocks at Bree's window.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Cos she only wants the best for me.
0:15:35 > 0:15:40She doesn't want me to be a statistic, that's the only thing.
0:15:40 > 0:15:44She doesn't want me or Bree to be a statistic and she just wants us
0:15:44 > 0:15:49to be adults, basically, and just be focused and be more responsible.
0:15:49 > 0:15:54- Vernon is...- He's a work in progress.- He really is.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55But he's come a long way.
0:15:55 > 0:16:00I think if I had maybe two more years with him, he would be OK.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04- Straighten out.- Yeah. Cos he's trying, he really is.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06He is really trying.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Good morning, faculty staff and students.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Welcome to the middle of another week.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36This is our 31st week in our turnaround transformation process.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39The following announcements - the lip-sync contest,
0:16:39 > 0:16:43tickets are 3 and will only be sold at lunch on Thursday.
0:16:43 > 0:16:49This event, hosted by Rendull Middleton, also known as LL Cool J.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52In the lip-sync contest will be Pam as Jennifer Hudson,
0:16:52 > 0:16:56Miss Johnson as Mary J Blige,
0:16:56 > 0:17:00and many, many more acts.
0:17:00 > 0:17:05Today, remember, peace and tranquillity. Have a great day.
0:17:09 > 0:17:10Yo, what's the problem?
0:17:10 > 0:17:13- RADIO:- Dr Peters, come back.
0:17:14 > 0:17:20- This is Dr Peters.- We've got a 10-83.- Ten-four, I'm on my way.
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Gosh!
0:17:23 > 0:17:27'He always realises he's wrong after the scenario.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30'Once you pull the trigger, like, the bullet's out of the gun.'
0:17:32 > 0:17:35And I can only do so much.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42OK, "student took pencil from another student" -
0:17:42 > 0:17:45- I imagine that's TJ.- Yes, he did.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47"Some words were exchanged between the two students
0:17:47 > 0:17:49"and TJ hit the other student."
0:17:51 > 0:17:55Punched him in the face, causing the nose laceration.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59We don't know whether his nose is broken or not.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06Two other referrals - using profanity in the classroom.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09On the way outside the classroom, using profanity again.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16- He keeps doing this. Now, he's punching people.- Yeah.- So...
0:18:16 > 0:18:19When he comes to me and he knows he's getting, you know, hot,
0:18:19 > 0:18:21I can calm him down, but my concern
0:18:21 > 0:18:23is that when I'm not there, that somebody...
0:18:23 > 0:18:25What's your gut telling you?
0:18:25 > 0:18:27What's so funny is he said,
0:18:27 > 0:18:29"I want you to do what your brain's telling you to do."
0:18:29 > 0:18:31- That's what he told you?- Mmm-hm.
0:18:31 > 0:18:38Academically, he is good. It's that anger part. Erm, so...
0:18:38 > 0:18:40We've got to put a stop to the behaviour
0:18:40 > 0:18:43and obviously other students are going to see that he's still around.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47- Yeah.- We've got to do some paperwork on him today.- Thank you.
0:18:47 > 0:18:48All right, thank you.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52PHONE RINGS
0:18:52 > 0:18:57- 'Hello?'- Hey, may I speak to the parent or guardian of TJ?
0:18:57 > 0:18:59- 'This is she.'- Good.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03Listen, I wanted to call cos I did a little more investigating
0:19:03 > 0:19:07and I wanted you to know that he had three referrals
0:19:07 > 0:19:10and then he started using profanity with them
0:19:10 > 0:19:13and told them, "Now that it's not Black History Month,
0:19:13 > 0:19:16"you don't give an F about Ns any more."
0:19:16 > 0:19:17I hate to do it,
0:19:17 > 0:19:20but I'm going to have to put him ten days recommendation
0:19:20 > 0:19:25and they will set a hearing date for him to go before the board
0:19:25 > 0:19:29to determine his placement, if he'll be able to come back to O-W
0:19:29 > 0:19:34or if there might be some other alternative setting for him.
0:19:34 > 0:19:35- 'All right.'- OK?
0:19:35 > 0:19:38Oh, wow!
0:19:38 > 0:19:41That one's probably the hardest one all year.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44I don't think we've had any kids that have come back
0:19:44 > 0:19:46when they've been recommended for expulsion.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49They're either going over to the alternative school
0:19:49 > 0:19:54or they're completely expelled, can't come to school at all.
0:20:03 > 0:20:08I just know how he is. He's pegged himself like he's a bad kid.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10He's not that kid, but, in his mind,
0:20:10 > 0:20:12it's like he keeps telling himself he is.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16I can't be doing these things.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19I know my momma want me to take care of her and stuff.
0:20:19 > 0:20:24I saw tears coming out of her eyes. That's why I wish I was at school.
0:20:27 > 0:20:33I'm very disappointed. I can say that much.
0:20:33 > 0:20:38He knows I'm disappointed because education is everything.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41Now he's in jeopardy of going to an alternative school,
0:20:41 > 0:20:44which is some school for kids that's constantly in trouble.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46It is what it is.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48My situation might get worse if I go there
0:20:48 > 0:20:53cos people going to start bothering me and I ain't going to like that.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55That's why I don't want to go to alternate school.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57I don't want to go to alternate school
0:20:57 > 0:21:00because I believe I'm going to get into even more trouble.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02They don't want him to get kicked out from school,
0:21:02 > 0:21:05but it's not their decision so now he's out of school,
0:21:05 > 0:21:07he's suspended for ten days.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10He has to go before the board and that's why I tell him
0:21:10 > 0:21:12he's going to be put in that bunch.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15He's not a really bad child, but they're going to label him.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Making sure you can do this and do that,
0:21:17 > 0:21:20that comes of growing up.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23You're a teenager now, you know right from wrong - responsibilities.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30I painted these. They was yellow and now they're green.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32I'm going to paint them again.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35You can turn bad stuff to good stuff, to be honest.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37What I mean by that is, like,
0:21:37 > 0:21:40you can have a bad kid and teach him better. He'll get good.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42You can have a beat-up pair of shoes,
0:21:42 > 0:21:44paint over that - brand-new shoe.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Being a parent is going to be a big adjustment
0:21:54 > 0:21:56because when you are a parent,
0:21:56 > 0:22:00you have the ultimate responsibility of raising that child
0:22:00 > 0:22:04and when you're young, you're still trying to find your own way,
0:22:04 > 0:22:08much less growing up and becoming more responsible as a man.
0:22:08 > 0:22:12That's life. You've heard me say it before.
0:22:12 > 0:22:13Get over this hump, there's another one.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Bottom line. And not only that, how many brothers you got at the house?
0:22:19 > 0:22:22- Four.- Four. Four.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Momma can preach all day long,
0:22:25 > 0:22:28but little brothers going to do what they see big brother do.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Big brother don't do right in school,
0:22:30 > 0:22:34little brother ain't going to do right. Cos why?
0:22:34 > 0:22:38Cos you're cool, you're who they want to be in life, all right?
0:22:38 > 0:22:40So, go on and do what you got to do.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43All right?
0:22:45 > 0:22:48'When you talk to Mom, Mom wants to give Rendull'
0:22:48 > 0:22:51everything he needs in life to be successful,
0:22:51 > 0:22:55but Mom also wants to give him responsibility
0:22:55 > 0:22:58and Mom also wants him to be realistic
0:22:58 > 0:23:00and Mom also wants him to be a man.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03I have a strict mom.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07Most of the stuff that people my age are allowed to do,
0:23:07 > 0:23:09I'm not allowed to do.
0:23:09 > 0:23:15My friends have strict parents and I think it just... It betters you.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18I know that she's my mother and she knows that I'm her son
0:23:18 > 0:23:22and I will always respect her, but I don't know,
0:23:22 > 0:23:26we don't have that bond like how we used to.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29My mother had to play both of the roles.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32She had to be a father and a mother.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37If my mom wasn't there to kick my behind,
0:23:37 > 0:23:39I would be off the walls right now.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Come on.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Come on, you ready to go night-night?
0:24:02 > 0:24:04What's up, dawg?
0:24:06 > 0:24:08What's up?
0:24:14 > 0:24:17I'm glad you came back home, son.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20- Mmm-hm.- You know this ain't over, though, right?
0:24:24 > 0:24:27You do know that you're not a little boy, right?
0:24:27 > 0:24:31And as for me, your mother, I feel I should be able to say
0:24:31 > 0:24:33whatever I want to say to y'all when it comes to my kids.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37- It don't work like that, Momma. - It does.- It don't.- It does.
0:24:37 > 0:24:38It does cos let me tell you something -
0:24:38 > 0:24:40just cos you got a child don't mean you're a man.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42I never said that, Momma. I understand that.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44All right, then. I'm not your friend.
0:24:44 > 0:24:49- I'm your mother.- I'm not tolerating disrespect in my life.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52You are not tolerating... You don't know what disrespect...
0:24:52 > 0:24:54- From no person at all.- But you don't know what disrespect is.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56I do, Momma.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- I'm not slow, Momma.- OK, so let me ask you...- I'm 17 years old.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01OK, 17-year-old man, see,
0:25:01 > 0:25:03there are certain things that I expect from you that I just
0:25:03 > 0:25:06don't see you doing yet and I feel you should be doing by now.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10Yeah, I get angry sometimes and I do curse at you, but, Ra Ra,
0:25:10 > 0:25:12if you want the respect that a man gets,
0:25:12 > 0:25:14then go do something that a man do.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17- Oh, yeah, like what?- I'm just saying.- What you saying, though?
0:25:17 > 0:25:21- Get yourself together.- Like what? - Everything.- Be specific.- Everything!
0:25:21 > 0:25:24- What are you talking about? - I'm talking about life, period.
0:25:24 > 0:25:28This ain't got a whole lot to do with it because you say that
0:25:28 > 0:25:31if anybody disrespects you, they're going to get disrespected back.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33That's what you said, right?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35- Did you not say that?- Yeah.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37And I told you in the real world,
0:25:37 > 0:25:39you are going to be disrespected a lot.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41I'm not, I'm not!
0:25:41 > 0:25:43That's what you fail to realise.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45If you don't tolerate disrespect,
0:25:45 > 0:25:47you're not going to get disrespected.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49That's just like if somebody come in off the streets
0:25:49 > 0:25:52and he come in your face and he say, "Ra Ra, I don't like you.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54- "Ra Ra, I don't like you..." - He's not coming in my face.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56OK, he probably won't, but I'm just saying...
0:25:56 > 0:26:00Man, you come in my face, I'm going to...
0:26:00 > 0:26:02- See what I'm talking about? - You really not understanding...
0:26:02 > 0:26:04No, you really not understanding.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08I raised you better than that. You want respect, give it.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11You give it, you will get it.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15You are soon to be an 18-year-old father.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18You're about to have a child and hopefully when Harmoni gets here
0:26:18 > 0:26:21and you be a part of her life like you're supposed to be,
0:26:21 > 0:26:23you're going to know where I'm coming from.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26If you want better, you do better.
0:26:31 > 0:26:32So, it's like...
0:26:43 > 0:26:44I've got the type of mom and daddy
0:26:44 > 0:26:46they can talk all the trash in the world,
0:26:46 > 0:26:48but they ain't going to let you go down.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Not if they see you trying, they ain't going to let you go down.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59I took the car, be driving it with no licence
0:26:59 > 0:27:02and then the car broke down when I was in it
0:27:02 > 0:27:04so the finger was pointing at me.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Everything is my fault, like, it's my fault.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11I should have been more smart.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14I should have been thinking before I started acting.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23OK, so, what happened today around 2.30?
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Oh, gosh.
0:27:27 > 0:27:32OK, well, basically I just had to ask Breezy for the keys
0:27:32 > 0:27:37so I can get something out of the car and then what's I was like...
0:27:37 > 0:27:40And that's when I seen my two friends or whatever
0:27:40 > 0:27:42and they were like, oh, they wanted to go somewhere and I was like,
0:27:42 > 0:27:44"Oh, I'm headed that way."
0:27:44 > 0:27:46So, what made you drive Bree's car
0:27:46 > 0:27:50with no licence and with two passengers in a car?
0:27:50 > 0:27:52And who was those dummies?
0:27:52 > 0:27:53Oh, those was friends.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56You know, if you would have got stopped by the police,
0:27:56 > 0:27:59I was reporting it stolen automatically,
0:27:59 > 0:28:00cos I don't know nothing about it,
0:28:00 > 0:28:04Bree don't know nothing about you got her car with no licence.
0:28:04 > 0:28:05Y'all going to jail.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07- Yes, ma'am. - Cos y'all in a stolen car.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13What if you had hit somebody?
0:28:16 > 0:28:22- Then what?- I can't really say cos I know I was being careful.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25No, you wasn't because you ran the red light.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31It just so happened, I ride up so had I been at work,
0:28:31 > 0:28:35I could have been at work, not knowing what's going on.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37You've got to think beyond that moment.
0:28:37 > 0:28:42Responsibility - you have to be responsible for you.
0:28:45 > 0:28:47I feel bad that I did it,
0:28:47 > 0:28:50but I can't go back in time to change it, so...
0:28:52 > 0:28:53There it is.
0:28:55 > 0:28:59I guess he said what he had to say and she took it all in.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01What can I say?
0:29:01 > 0:29:05Vernon is like a brother to me, but my mother is my mother.
0:29:05 > 0:29:08This time right here, I can't save you.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30So, I'll play whatever cards are dealt to me.
0:29:30 > 0:29:34This shower is about Harmoni, it's about love.
0:29:34 > 0:29:38Children coming into the world, it takes a village to raise a child.
0:29:38 > 0:29:41We are that village and I look forward
0:29:41 > 0:29:43to all of you helping us raise Harmoni.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45APPLAUSE
0:29:47 > 0:29:49Oh, my God!
0:30:10 > 0:30:14Thank you. And we'll begin opening gifts.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16I will not read your entire card.
0:30:16 > 0:30:21I will just let you know what family or person the gift is from.
0:30:21 > 0:30:22Sandals.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24This from Ashley.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29From the godmother, Monica Brown.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31SHE LAUGHS
0:30:32 > 0:30:34Very nice.
0:30:34 > 0:30:38INDISTINCT
0:30:47 > 0:30:49Oh, my gosh!
0:30:49 > 0:30:51Oh, man!
0:30:51 > 0:30:53APPLAUSE
0:30:55 > 0:30:58I would like to thank everybody for coming.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09Hey, I appreciate everybody for coming today
0:31:09 > 0:31:10and everything everybody brought.
0:31:10 > 0:31:12I appreciate supporting us and everything...
0:31:12 > 0:31:15'I mean, she's probably nervous about the process
0:31:15 > 0:31:18'as any female who ain't never had a daughter.
0:31:18 > 0:31:19'That's a scary process.'
0:31:19 > 0:31:21All right, you all ready?
0:31:21 > 0:31:23Ra Ra, we need for you to smile. We can do this all day.
0:31:23 > 0:31:25- You're making me feel famous. - Come on!
0:31:25 > 0:31:30- Get together, make it closer.- I'm telling you.- Thank you!- Yes!- Yeah!
0:31:30 > 0:31:31- You like that?- My picture first.
0:31:34 > 0:31:37'You know, family, they're only going to want the best for you.'
0:31:37 > 0:31:39- You got the big picture of you, right?- Yeah.
0:31:39 > 0:31:43I'm trying to hold on to, like, the positive side as well.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47'I don't got an average 17-year-old lifestyle.'
0:31:47 > 0:31:50My daughter not really here yet,
0:31:50 > 0:31:53but it's going to get real when she get here.
0:31:58 > 0:32:01- RADIO:- All radio holders to the cafeteria, 10-83.
0:32:01 > 0:32:05All radio holders to the cafeteria, multiple 10-83s.
0:32:05 > 0:32:09- Dr Peters, could you meet me in the front office?- Ten-four.
0:32:12 > 0:32:17- Block this whole area off. Don't let nobody go out this door.- Mr Lee.
0:32:17 > 0:32:21See, that's how the people go. They going to class.
0:32:21 > 0:32:25This is when they start. See where they're coming from...
0:32:25 > 0:32:29Oh, there she go right there. Standing around... Oh, Lord!
0:32:30 > 0:32:33- That's her with the blue and pink... - Mm-hmm.- Yeah, OK.
0:32:38 > 0:32:42- Yeah.- This is ridiculous.
0:32:42 > 0:32:46- OK, so that's the first fight that broke out.- Right.
0:32:47 > 0:32:49There you go.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53- And then something else happens. - Right.
0:32:53 > 0:32:58So there was a period of time in between the first fight
0:32:58 > 0:33:00and the second one.
0:33:00 > 0:33:05- And then, all of a sudden, somebody pulls her back.- Uh-huh.
0:33:05 > 0:33:06She fights to get loose.
0:33:06 > 0:33:08We already broke these two up.
0:33:08 > 0:33:11- So something happened after that, too?- She walked up and hit somebody.
0:33:11 > 0:33:12I don't know...
0:33:14 > 0:33:15What a fiasco!
0:33:15 > 0:33:17This is a school.
0:33:17 > 0:33:21It's not a wrestling ring, it's not a boxing match - it's a school.
0:33:21 > 0:33:26'When I saw the huge brawl between multiple girls,
0:33:26 > 0:33:30'I was literally almost sick at my stomach.
0:33:30 > 0:33:32'I was appalled to the degree
0:33:32 > 0:33:36'that I sometimes wonder during times like that
0:33:36 > 0:33:38'whether I am in the right place
0:33:38 > 0:33:41'doing the right things for our children.
0:33:43 > 0:33:46'It makes you personally reflect deeply on,
0:33:46 > 0:33:48'"Can I make a difference?"'
0:33:48 > 0:33:51TANNOY: Please excuse this interruption.
0:33:51 > 0:33:55Very seldom will you hear my voice over the PA system
0:33:55 > 0:33:59during instructional time, but I think it is necessary
0:33:59 > 0:34:02for the students today to hear my voice
0:34:02 > 0:34:07in reference to the morning that we've had at OW.
0:34:07 > 0:34:11How disappointing it is to me as your leader,
0:34:11 > 0:34:15who tries along with your teachers and those with whom you live,
0:34:15 > 0:34:19to try to establish a better pathway for your life.
0:34:19 > 0:34:23But I will tell you that those students who were involved
0:34:23 > 0:34:29directly and indirectly will receive the harshest punishment possible.
0:34:29 > 0:34:32You will not see them here at Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School.
0:34:32 > 0:34:37Thank you for your attention and thank you for your adjustment
0:34:37 > 0:34:40of the behaviour that is expected at O-W.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
0:34:44 > 0:34:48A total of 11 students - it has not been final yet,
0:34:48 > 0:34:53but I believe all 11 students will be recommended for expulsion.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05- You got another bill on me. - I told you!
0:35:05 > 0:35:08No, I don't say stuff just to be saying it.
0:35:08 > 0:35:10Every time I think you're getting it,
0:35:10 > 0:35:12you show me you're really not getting it.
0:35:12 > 0:35:13No, no, no, no, no.
0:35:13 > 0:35:17Thursday night - what a night.
0:35:17 > 0:35:23I'm telling you, everything you do from now on is on you.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26'My mom told Vernon that he had to go
0:35:26 > 0:35:30'and she told me that when she was talking to him,
0:35:30 > 0:35:34'he didn't come off as apologetic'
0:35:34 > 0:35:37so that's when she said that he had to go.
0:35:41 > 0:35:45She put me out, but I understood why she put me out.
0:35:47 > 0:35:50Shanika said it was hurting her to see me hurting
0:35:50 > 0:35:55because she loved me like I'm her own child and that made me, like,
0:35:55 > 0:35:59cry even more because I feel like Shanika is the mother
0:35:59 > 0:36:02that I, like, always wanted and I never had.
0:36:07 > 0:36:10You never know what the future holds.
0:36:19 > 0:36:23# Sometimes in the morning... #
0:36:23 > 0:36:25Today, I've got to go to the district
0:36:25 > 0:36:27and see if they're going to let me back in school.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30# Well, I get up off my knees, Jesus... #
0:36:30 > 0:36:34Do I believe in second chances? I honestly do.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36# Oh, Jesus
0:36:36 > 0:36:40# Jesus... #
0:36:41 > 0:36:46I pray for God that I get back in school and I know that my mom,
0:36:46 > 0:36:47she will be there defending me.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52O mighty man of valour, Lord God,
0:36:52 > 0:36:56let others see that you are blessing him in such an awesome way.
0:36:56 > 0:36:59I'm going to ask God to forgive me for this one
0:36:59 > 0:37:01because I'm really lost, you know.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14Kids who've been recommended,
0:37:14 > 0:37:17they've either been sent to the alternative school
0:37:17 > 0:37:20or they have been completely expelled.
0:37:22 > 0:37:24What scares me a little bit about the alternative school,
0:37:24 > 0:37:26he would be in the mix with children
0:37:26 > 0:37:29who don't have the best of intentions sometimes.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34I've got to go in there, talk to them,
0:37:34 > 0:37:37tell them what do I got to do.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40It's my first-time experience, I've never been through this before.
0:37:40 > 0:37:42I'm not planning on going back.
0:37:44 > 0:37:48- Are you feeling nervous?- Hmm...
0:37:48 > 0:37:49A little bit.
0:37:55 > 0:37:57We're here!
0:37:57 > 0:37:59Here goes nothing.
0:38:01 > 0:38:08I think with what he has, I think he has a chance at coming back.
0:38:13 > 0:38:16'I'm scared. I don't want to be a failure.'
0:38:18 > 0:38:19In God's hands!
0:38:21 > 0:38:22He's not a bad kid.
0:38:48 > 0:38:49Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah!
0:38:49 > 0:38:51CHEERING
0:38:53 > 0:38:55Thanks for attending the lip-sync battle.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58Our host tonight will be Chrissy Teigeni.
0:38:59 > 0:39:01All right, all right.
0:39:01 > 0:39:02So, we've got Miss Johnson
0:39:02 > 0:39:04doing Mary J Blige - Real Love.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06CHEERING
0:39:11 > 0:39:14# Won't you be my inspiration
0:39:14 > 0:39:17# Be the real love that I need
0:39:17 > 0:39:19# Real love
0:39:20 > 0:39:24# I'm searching for real love
0:39:24 > 0:39:27# Someone to set my heart free... #
0:39:29 > 0:39:31Make some noise!
0:39:31 > 0:39:33CHEERING
0:39:33 > 0:39:36MUSIC: Pop That by French Montana
0:40:04 > 0:40:06HE MOUTHS
0:40:10 > 0:40:13CHEERING
0:40:26 > 0:40:28Ohhhhhh!
0:40:33 > 0:40:34CHEERING
0:40:43 > 0:40:45CHEERING
0:40:47 > 0:40:49So, most of you got the idea.
0:40:49 > 0:40:52There are several of you still talking, I don't know why.
0:40:52 > 0:40:54I've got the mic up to my mouth.
0:40:54 > 0:40:58I will tell you, as your principal, I did not like what I saw.
0:40:58 > 0:41:02There has to be a certain standard, there has to be a boundary,
0:41:02 > 0:41:05there has to be a line that you don't cross.
0:41:05 > 0:41:09I don't care how much fun you think you had, who laughed at you -
0:41:09 > 0:41:13when you cross that line, there's a consequence on the other side.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16I'm going to tell you all something -
0:41:16 > 0:41:18you need to wake up because that world out there
0:41:18 > 0:41:20isn't going to give you an opportunity
0:41:20 > 0:41:22to cross too many of those boundaries.
0:41:22 > 0:41:28And because you think that this kind of behaviour is normal concerns me.
0:41:30 > 0:41:31Vernon...
0:41:32 > 0:41:34Vernon, come here.
0:41:40 > 0:41:44So, listen, Vernon took advantage of an opportunity
0:41:44 > 0:41:49when attention could be directed to him, right?
0:41:49 > 0:41:52He did something that I don't agree with and...
0:41:52 > 0:41:53MURMURING
0:41:53 > 0:41:56Are y'all going to listen or are you going to respond?
0:41:59 > 0:42:01Are you going to listen or are you going to respond?
0:42:04 > 0:42:08We're trying to teach you to have a standard
0:42:08 > 0:42:12and before this year's over, one way or another,
0:42:12 > 0:42:13you're going to get my message.
0:42:15 > 0:42:18I am so disappointed in what you decided to do.
0:42:18 > 0:42:22You could have stood up and danced without being raunchy.
0:42:22 > 0:42:23That wasn't cool.
0:42:23 > 0:42:25You do that in the college you go to
0:42:25 > 0:42:28and see if they're going to put you out of school.
0:42:28 > 0:42:30Seriously, that was wrong of you to do in here today.
0:42:30 > 0:42:32It was wrong.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42I was praying for my daddy to get out of jail early.
0:42:42 > 0:42:44- You get in some trouble? - Not some trouble.
0:42:44 > 0:42:46Me, I was praying that I get back in school.
0:42:49 > 0:42:51She got me on the ground, was kicking me.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53There's video probably somewhere,
0:42:53 > 0:42:55you can see where everything happened.