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If I had to describe O-W in one word,

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a real diamond.

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Mind-blowing.

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-Surprising.

-Drama.

-Swag.

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-Over the top.

-It's crazy.

-Oh, my God!

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-Problems.

-Discombobulated.

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This ain't no fairytale high school.

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This ain't no fairytale story. Everything is real here.

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CHEERING

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Class of 2016!

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At O-W, you see black people 98% of the time.

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You share pain, you share tears.

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We are lifelong friends forever.

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Teachers, please close all doors. We are in an active hall sweep.

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I'm a senior and it's make or break time for me.

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I'm about to get ready to leave high school.

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Y'all going to jail cos y'all in a stolen car.

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Come on, Ra Ra!

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Oh, yeah!

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I am so proud of you because I know you have overcome obstacles

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to make it to this day.

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CHEERING

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BUZZING

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The season is over with now.

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Basketball is just a small part of your life.

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The reality is you wanting to be able to provide for your daughter,

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that's the whole purpose of you going to school.

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There's a lot on my plate and I'm trying to contemplate my next move.

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-Here we go!

-'I was homeless, but what changed my life?'

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Breana Davis!

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-Vernon?

-Yes?

-Come here.

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'He ended up staying with me and my mother.'

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No, she hadn't said anything to me.

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Right, wow!

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Parents calling me to help turn their lights back on.

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I mean, how did we get to this point?

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Just do me a favour, go right now.

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You've got, like, three minutes to get there.

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Do not get caught in the hallways past the tardy bell.

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'We are in spring season and I'm operating on adrenaline

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'because I know that there's an enormous amount of work to be done.'

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Let's go!

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Let's go, let's go, let's go!

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'Changing school culture's not an easy task.'

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-Let's go!

-LET'S GO!

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-Y'all late, what are you standing there for?

-Let's go.

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'It's a challenge for me to see success now.'

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TANNOY: Teachers, please close all doors.

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We are in an active hall sweep.

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Teachers, please close all doors. We are in active hall sweep.

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Let's go!

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Let's go, auditorium.

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We've got to go. We've got to go to the auditorium.

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He's OK. Let's go, no excuses! The auditorium, let's go!

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-I was right there by the door.

-Auditorium, let's go, move.

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Where are you going?

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Hey, if I've got to come get you,

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we ain't going to see you the rest of this week.

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My knee hurts. I'm walking, I'm trying to walk.

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Walk on in.

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Close the door, please.

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Today, you got caught.

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A lot of you are failing because you are late to class.

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That's my job to fix.

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-Is that clear?

-Yes, sir.

-Is that clear?

-Yes.

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Suspensions are going to be issued today because I am not playing.

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-Ooooh!

-He don't care. I care.

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I've never been suspended before

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and I got a day because the teacher went, "Close the door."

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Hey, they got a day home and I don't get no days home

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cos you know what I'm saying, I'm bossed up, you feel me?

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What's up, man? I wish everybody would do like you.

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-Just do the right thing cos it's the right thing to do.

-Ohhhh!

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BELL RINGS

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I want to be successful. And I will. That's my biggest goal.

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Get away from Orangeburg, South Carolina. Let's just leave.

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I don't want to be here.

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The sky is the limit.

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I'm going to make it easy cos I'm going to be that one kid

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that do whatever it takes. You don't always get opportunities.

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Sometimes, you have to make opportunities.

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It's not going to just come for you. You've got to go get it.

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-Whassup?

-You all right?

-Oh, do I get a hug?

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-Good morning, Mr Hall.

-Good morning, Miss Mack.

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-I'll take that.

-I love you, too.

-Walk with me.

-Walk with you?

-Please.

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-Why do you need me to walk with you?

-Please.

-Are you serious?

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'All my kids are my babies, but with TJ,'

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you know, I've really just, I've taken him on.

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-What's up, Mack?

-What's up?

-What's up, Mack? What's cooking, bro?

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-'I just connected with him.'

-OK, today, I'm your teacher.

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My name is Anthony Mack and I'll be teaching Algebra 1.

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-LAUGHTER

-All right, guys, in your seats.

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Aww, why you got to crash the party?

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'He's a smart kid.'

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I see this great, bright future,

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but he just needs this guidance and he wants that.

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He wants it, too.

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BELL RINGS

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I didn't know... Like, you see this part right here?

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-You wanted that like that?

-Yeah.

-All right, I was just making sure.

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-What colours of shoestrings you putting in?

-White.

-White?

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-Try the rainbow.

-Rainbow?

-Rainbow shoestrings.

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'I like customising shoes.'

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I don't want to be like nobody else,

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like having my own shoes. Yeah, but I'm like...

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I want to have people thinking, "Are those real?" I mean, they are.

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Everybody don't normally dress up. People ask me why I dress up.

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Cos I got to look different.

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I want to look like a young man, a young gentleman at that.

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My swag is different.

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These were some basketball shoes. They not really all that.

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I just be messing up stuff sometimes.

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See how I got the little blue spots and stuff on there?

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Everybody was wondering how I did that.

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And these are shoes my father made.

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They're valuable because my father made them

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and he in prison right now and I know that his hands was on these

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so if I grab them, I'm, like, feeling his hand.

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Like, I can feel him.

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He put all this stuff right here on.

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He told me he was doing, like,

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staples and stitch it up a little bit.

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I'm trying to find out how he did that.

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The part I really like is I've got a pocket right here,

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I can drop some money down there, you know?

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We just keep this for, like, love so when he get out, he be like, "Wow!"

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AIR HORN BLARES

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MUSIC: Ima Boss by Meek Mill featuring Rick Ross

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I can just do whatever I want to do.

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Anything I want to do, I can go do it.

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Your next doctor's appointment is going to be today.

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Once we go there, they're probably just going to end up

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checking the baby's heartbeat

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and next time you go back, you'll be going back every week

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so that they can check on the baby cos the baby's almost here!

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Yaay! Y'all excited?

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-Erm...

-Oh, you're not?

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We're just so excited and we're ready for Harmony to arrive.

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Hey, hey, hey! Go back in there, tell them to hurry up.

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-Hey, hurry up.

-All right, thank you.

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-Why do you have your hat on in the building?

-I'm going to go outside.

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OK, well, wait till you get outside. Thank you very much.

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No, you're supposed to be in class.

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No, I'm not. I just came.

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-When did you get back?

-When the bell...

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OK, so where you supposed to be...

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You're waiting to go to fourth bell?

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-Yes!

-OK, all right, calm down!

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-Pump your brakes.

-I'm just saying, like, why do you...

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How long have you been back in the building?

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-Just now.

-OK.

-The bus just came.

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A little more effort would have gotten you a raise in your GPA.

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Algebra 1, you have to pass.

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-You can do better.

-I know.

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Two points from a C? Now, why in this class do you have a 60?

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I've got to get on that now.

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But here's the thing - this is an easy A or B.

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-I know.

-That's what's going to boost you.

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'TJ has a really rough story and when his dad went to prison,'

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he was probably angry and upset and he started acting out

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and instead of at that point getting counselling and getting help

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to redirect his emotions into something positive,

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he was told that he was like his dad.

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-You had told me that he was getting out soon.

-Oh, yeah.

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He getting out in, like, I think one more year, I think, or two more.

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I just pray that he get out earlier.

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My uncle supposed to be coming home, too, so he might come home

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at the same time and we might have a big party for them.

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Your uncle's in prison? You didn't tell me your uncle was.

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-Is he your dad's brother?

-My momma's only brother.

-What happened there?

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-Drugs.

-That makes me nervous.

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It's easy to get caught up in that stuff, especially in high school.

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You are paying attention to that stuff, though, right?

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Yes, cos that's what my daddy told me.

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He said he don't want me to make that same mistake he made

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and my uncle, I just talked to him the other day,

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he was like, "I'll jack you over

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"if I ever catch you doing what I was doing."

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'My father been locked up for six or seven years,'

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but you know what they say about kids whose father went to jail -

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they going to go to jail, too.

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That's not going to happen to me.

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So, you really need to stay on these grades and that's part of,

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-like, being an advocate for yourself, OK?

-Yes, ma'am.

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-BELL RINGS

-All right, that's your next class.

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-So, you need to stay up on these, OK?

-Yes.

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Miss Hart, did you call this student Abiyomi?

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I called this student Abiyomi.

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-She's not in class.

-What class was that?

-Mr Lewis.

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So, she's not in class.

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BEEPING All units -

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if you see Abiyomi, please radio me.

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'Discipline, man, it's a day-to-day grind.'

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Hey, Mr Lewis, did Abiyomi come to class at fourth bell?

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-No, she didn't.

-Haven't seen her?

-I haven't seen her.

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'The majority of it is a lack of focus.'

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Young lady... Young lady!

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Where were you in your fourth block? Who checked you out?

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What do you mean who checked me out? My momma came and got me.

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-She signed you out?

-I went out that way.

-You've got to sign out.

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You can't just leave school.

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So you know I'm going to verify that

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-with your mom this morning, right?

-OK.

-OK.

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'I have found myself on that verge of losing patience

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'with some of our students.'

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Yesterday, you didn't do what's right.

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-Cos I left school early with my momma?

-No.

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Don't give me an attitude. I'm the wrong one to give the attitude.

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-All right, well...

-Listen, I'm the principal, you know what I'm saying?

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-OK.

-So, what you need to do right now is pump your brakes.

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-You need to calm yourself down.

-I'm calm.

-No, you're not.

-I'm very calm.

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No, you're not because you're about to take me up here where you are

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and I'm going to tell you right now, you don't want that.

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You don't want me to be up where you are.

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'And that's not a win-win scenario

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'when you've got a teacher agitated and a child agitated.

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'That frustrates me.'

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All right, you know I'm around the hallways and everywhere else.

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All right.

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And they said something, they was, like...

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Erm, they said something and I was like, "What?!"

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-I did that, I was like, "What?!"

-Did your head turn like that?

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Yeah, I was like, "What?!" I know!

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'Vernon has been living with me for about six months, maybe.'

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It's been a while.

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Oh, what's Momma cooking?

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Bree came picked me up from work and we were like,

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"He has nowhere to go," so what was I to do?

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I couldn't just leave him out on the streets, you know,

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he had nowhere to go.

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-It wasn't much of a big deal.

-It really wasn't.

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It's not like we have a house full and we're like,

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"Oh, no, we can't have no more people here." No.

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I know since we moved here, he's always seemed troubled, you know,

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like you could tell there wasn't much structure wherever he was.

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I feel like I never had this type of support before,

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like I had this support, but I just didn't feel like I had it

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and, like, Shanika, she makes me feel like I have that support

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because she's not going to tell me nothing wrong,

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she's always going to tell me the truth

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and she going to give it to you nice, nasty and raw.

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He snuck out one night and I made him sleep outside, like,

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because you left out of my house,

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you left my door unlocked - Bree was upstairs, she didn't even know

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you were gone - so, yeah, when I got home,

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I locked my doors and I locked you out and it was freezing.

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And she was like,

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"You'd better not let him in or you'll be out there, too."

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I was like, "Sorry, buddy, you'll have to take this all by yourself."

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He was throwing rocks at Bree's window.

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Cos she only wants the best for me.

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She doesn't want me to be a statistic, that's the only thing.

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She doesn't want me or Bree to be a statistic and she just wants us

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to be adults, basically, and just be focused and be more responsible.

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-Vernon is...

-He's a work in progress.

-He really is.

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But he's come a long way.

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I think if I had maybe two more years with him, he would be OK.

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-Straighten out.

-Yeah. Cos he's trying, he really is.

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He is really trying.

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Good morning, faculty staff and students.

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Welcome to the middle of another week.

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This is our 31st week in our turnaround transformation process.

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The following announcements - the lip-sync contest,

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tickets are 3 and will only be sold at lunch on Thursday.

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This event, hosted by Rendull Middleton, also known as LL Cool J.

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In the lip-sync contest will be Pam as Jennifer Hudson,

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Miss Johnson as Mary J Blige,

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and many, many more acts.

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Today, remember, peace and tranquillity. Have a great day.

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Yo, what's the problem?

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-RADIO:

-Dr Peters, come back.

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-This is Dr Peters.

-We've got a 10-83.

-Ten-four, I'm on my way.

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Gosh!

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'He always realises he's wrong after the scenario.

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'Once you pull the trigger, like, the bullet's out of the gun.'

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And I can only do so much.

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OK, "student took pencil from another student" -

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-I imagine that's TJ.

-Yes, he did.

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"Some words were exchanged between the two students

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"and TJ hit the other student."

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Punched him in the face, causing the nose laceration.

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We don't know whether his nose is broken or not.

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Two other referrals - using profanity in the classroom.

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On the way outside the classroom, using profanity again.

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-He keeps doing this. Now, he's punching people.

-Yeah.

-So...

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When he comes to me and he knows he's getting, you know, hot,

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I can calm him down, but my concern

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is that when I'm not there, that somebody...

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What's your gut telling you?

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What's so funny is he said,

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"I want you to do what your brain's telling you to do."

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-That's what he told you?

-Mmm-hm.

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Academically, he is good. It's that anger part. Erm, so...

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We've got to put a stop to the behaviour

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and obviously other students are going to see that he's still around.

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-Yeah.

-We've got to do some paperwork on him today.

-Thank you.

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All right, thank you.

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PHONE RINGS

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-'Hello?'

-Hey, may I speak to the parent or guardian of TJ?

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-'This is she.'

-Good.

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Listen, I wanted to call cos I did a little more investigating

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and I wanted you to know that he had three referrals

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and then he started using profanity with them

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and told them, "Now that it's not Black History Month,

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"you don't give an F about Ns any more."

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I hate to do it,

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but I'm going to have to put him ten days recommendation

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and they will set a hearing date for him to go before the board

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to determine his placement, if he'll be able to come back to O-W

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or if there might be some other alternative setting for him.

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-'All right.'

-OK?

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Oh, wow!

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That one's probably the hardest one all year.

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I don't think we've had any kids that have come back

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when they've been recommended for expulsion.

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They're either going over to the alternative school

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or they're completely expelled, can't come to school at all.

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I just know how he is. He's pegged himself like he's a bad kid.

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He's not that kid, but, in his mind,

0:20:080:20:10

it's like he keeps telling himself he is.

0:20:100:20:12

I can't be doing these things.

0:20:140:20:16

I know my momma want me to take care of her and stuff.

0:20:160:20:19

I saw tears coming out of her eyes. That's why I wish I was at school.

0:20:190:20:24

I'm very disappointed. I can say that much.

0:20:270:20:33

He knows I'm disappointed because education is everything.

0:20:330:20:38

Now he's in jeopardy of going to an alternative school,

0:20:380:20:41

which is some school for kids that's constantly in trouble.

0:20:410:20:44

It is what it is.

0:20:440:20:46

My situation might get worse if I go there

0:20:460:20:48

cos people going to start bothering me and I ain't going to like that.

0:20:480:20:53

That's why I don't want to go to alternate school.

0:20:530:20:55

I don't want to go to alternate school

0:20:550:20:57

because I believe I'm going to get into even more trouble.

0:20:570:21:00

They don't want him to get kicked out from school,

0:21:000:21:02

but it's not their decision so now he's out of school,

0:21:020:21:05

he's suspended for ten days.

0:21:050:21:07

He has to go before the board and that's why I tell him

0:21:070:21:10

he's going to be put in that bunch.

0:21:100:21:12

He's not a really bad child, but they're going to label him.

0:21:120:21:15

Making sure you can do this and do that,

0:21:150:21:17

that comes of growing up.

0:21:170:21:20

You're a teenager now, you know right from wrong - responsibilities.

0:21:200:21:23

I painted these. They was yellow and now they're green.

0:21:260:21:30

I'm going to paint them again.

0:21:300:21:32

You can turn bad stuff to good stuff, to be honest.

0:21:320:21:35

What I mean by that is, like,

0:21:350:21:37

you can have a bad kid and teach him better. He'll get good.

0:21:370:21:40

You can have a beat-up pair of shoes,

0:21:400:21:42

paint over that - brand-new shoe.

0:21:420:21:44

Being a parent is going to be a big adjustment

0:21:510:21:54

because when you are a parent,

0:21:540:21:56

you have the ultimate responsibility of raising that child

0:21:560:22:00

and when you're young, you're still trying to find your own way,

0:22:000:22:04

much less growing up and becoming more responsible as a man.

0:22:040:22:08

That's life. You've heard me say it before.

0:22:080:22:12

Get over this hump, there's another one.

0:22:120:22:13

Bottom line. And not only that, how many brothers you got at the house?

0:22:150:22:19

-Four.

-Four. Four.

0:22:190:22:22

Momma can preach all day long,

0:22:230:22:25

but little brothers going to do what they see big brother do.

0:22:250:22:28

Big brother don't do right in school,

0:22:280:22:30

little brother ain't going to do right. Cos why?

0:22:300:22:34

Cos you're cool, you're who they want to be in life, all right?

0:22:340:22:38

So, go on and do what you got to do.

0:22:380:22:40

All right?

0:22:410:22:43

'When you talk to Mom, Mom wants to give Rendull'

0:22:450:22:48

everything he needs in life to be successful,

0:22:480:22:51

but Mom also wants to give him responsibility

0:22:510:22:55

and Mom also wants him to be realistic

0:22:550:22:58

and Mom also wants him to be a man.

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I have a strict mom.

0:23:010:23:03

Most of the stuff that people my age are allowed to do,

0:23:030:23:07

I'm not allowed to do.

0:23:070:23:09

My friends have strict parents and I think it just... It betters you.

0:23:090:23:15

I know that she's my mother and she knows that I'm her son

0:23:150:23:18

and I will always respect her, but I don't know,

0:23:180:23:22

we don't have that bond like how we used to.

0:23:220:23:26

My mother had to play both of the roles.

0:23:260:23:29

She had to be a father and a mother.

0:23:290:23:32

If my mom wasn't there to kick my behind,

0:23:330:23:37

I would be off the walls right now.

0:23:370:23:39

Come on.

0:23:500:23:52

Come on, you ready to go night-night?

0:23:520:23:54

What's up, dawg?

0:24:020:24:04

What's up?

0:24:060:24:08

I'm glad you came back home, son.

0:24:140:24:17

-Mmm-hm.

-You know this ain't over, though, right?

0:24:170:24:20

You do know that you're not a little boy, right?

0:24:240:24:27

And as for me, your mother, I feel I should be able to say

0:24:270:24:31

whatever I want to say to y'all when it comes to my kids.

0:24:310:24:33

-It don't work like that, Momma.

-It does.

-It don't.

-It does.

0:24:330:24:37

It does cos let me tell you something -

0:24:370:24:38

just cos you got a child don't mean you're a man.

0:24:380:24:40

I never said that, Momma. I understand that.

0:24:400:24:42

All right, then. I'm not your friend.

0:24:420:24:44

-I'm your mother.

-I'm not tolerating disrespect in my life.

0:24:440:24:49

You are not tolerating... You don't know what disrespect...

0:24:490:24:52

-From no person at all.

-But you don't know what disrespect is.

0:24:520:24:54

I do, Momma.

0:24:540:24:56

-I'm not slow, Momma.

-OK, so let me ask you...

-I'm 17 years old.

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OK, 17-year-old man, see,

0:24:590:25:01

there are certain things that I expect from you that I just

0:25:010:25:03

don't see you doing yet and I feel you should be doing by now.

0:25:030:25:06

Yeah, I get angry sometimes and I do curse at you, but, Ra Ra,

0:25:060:25:10

if you want the respect that a man gets,

0:25:100:25:12

then go do something that a man do.

0:25:120:25:14

-Oh, yeah, like what?

-I'm just saying.

-What you saying, though?

0:25:140:25:17

-Get yourself together.

-Like what?

-Everything.

-Be specific.

-Everything!

0:25:170:25:21

-What are you talking about?

-I'm talking about life, period.

0:25:210:25:24

This ain't got a whole lot to do with it because you say that

0:25:240:25:28

if anybody disrespects you, they're going to get disrespected back.

0:25:280:25:31

That's what you said, right?

0:25:310:25:33

-Did you not say that?

-Yeah.

0:25:330:25:35

And I told you in the real world,

0:25:350:25:37

you are going to be disrespected a lot.

0:25:370:25:39

I'm not, I'm not!

0:25:390:25:41

That's what you fail to realise.

0:25:410:25:43

If you don't tolerate disrespect,

0:25:430:25:45

you're not going to get disrespected.

0:25:450:25:47

That's just like if somebody come in off the streets

0:25:470:25:49

and he come in your face and he say, "Ra Ra, I don't like you.

0:25:490:25:52

-"Ra Ra, I don't like you..."

-He's not coming in my face.

0:25:520:25:54

OK, he probably won't, but I'm just saying...

0:25:540:25:56

Man, you come in my face, I'm going to...

0:25:560:26:00

-See what I'm talking about?

-You really not understanding...

0:26:000:26:02

No, you really not understanding.

0:26:020:26:04

I raised you better than that. You want respect, give it.

0:26:040:26:08

You give it, you will get it.

0:26:080:26:11

You are soon to be an 18-year-old father.

0:26:110:26:15

You're about to have a child and hopefully when Harmoni gets here

0:26:150:26:18

and you be a part of her life like you're supposed to be,

0:26:180:26:21

you're going to know where I'm coming from.

0:26:210:26:23

If you want better, you do better.

0:26:230:26:26

So, it's like...

0:26:310:26:32

I've got the type of mom and daddy

0:26:430:26:44

they can talk all the trash in the world,

0:26:440:26:46

but they ain't going to let you go down.

0:26:460:26:48

Not if they see you trying, they ain't going to let you go down.

0:26:480:26:51

I took the car, be driving it with no licence

0:26:550:26:59

and then the car broke down when I was in it

0:26:590:27:02

so the finger was pointing at me.

0:27:020:27:04

Everything is my fault, like, it's my fault.

0:27:060:27:09

I should have been more smart.

0:27:090:27:11

I should have been thinking before I started acting.

0:27:110:27:14

OK, so, what happened today around 2.30?

0:27:190:27:23

Oh, gosh.

0:27:250:27:27

OK, well, basically I just had to ask Breezy for the keys

0:27:270:27:32

so I can get something out of the car and then what's I was like...

0:27:320:27:37

And that's when I seen my two friends or whatever

0:27:370:27:40

and they were like, oh, they wanted to go somewhere and I was like,

0:27:400:27:42

"Oh, I'm headed that way."

0:27:420:27:44

So, what made you drive Bree's car

0:27:440:27:46

with no licence and with two passengers in a car?

0:27:460:27:50

And who was those dummies?

0:27:500:27:52

Oh, those was friends.

0:27:520:27:53

You know, if you would have got stopped by the police,

0:27:530:27:56

I was reporting it stolen automatically,

0:27:560:27:59

cos I don't know nothing about it,

0:27:590:28:00

Bree don't know nothing about you got her car with no licence.

0:28:000:28:04

Y'all going to jail.

0:28:040:28:05

-Yes, ma'am.

-Cos y'all in a stolen car.

0:28:050:28:07

What if you had hit somebody?

0:28:100:28:13

-Then what?

-I can't really say cos I know I was being careful.

0:28:160:28:22

No, you wasn't because you ran the red light.

0:28:220:28:25

It just so happened, I ride up so had I been at work,

0:28:280:28:31

I could have been at work, not knowing what's going on.

0:28:310:28:35

You've got to think beyond that moment.

0:28:350:28:37

Responsibility - you have to be responsible for you.

0:28:370:28:42

I feel bad that I did it,

0:28:450:28:47

but I can't go back in time to change it, so...

0:28:470:28:50

There it is.

0:28:520:28:53

I guess he said what he had to say and she took it all in.

0:28:550:28:59

What can I say?

0:28:590:29:01

Vernon is like a brother to me, but my mother is my mother.

0:29:010:29:05

This time right here, I can't save you.

0:29:050:29:08

So, I'll play whatever cards are dealt to me.

0:29:270:29:30

This shower is about Harmoni, it's about love.

0:29:300:29:34

Children coming into the world, it takes a village to raise a child.

0:29:340:29:38

We are that village and I look forward

0:29:380:29:41

to all of you helping us raise Harmoni.

0:29:410:29:43

APPLAUSE

0:29:430:29:45

Oh, my God!

0:29:470:29:49

Thank you. And we'll begin opening gifts.

0:30:100:30:14

I will not read your entire card.

0:30:140:30:16

I will just let you know what family or person the gift is from.

0:30:160:30:21

Sandals.

0:30:210:30:22

This from Ashley.

0:30:220:30:24

From the godmother, Monica Brown.

0:30:270:30:29

SHE LAUGHS

0:30:290:30:31

Very nice.

0:30:320:30:34

INDISTINCT

0:30:340:30:38

Oh, my gosh!

0:30:470:30:49

Oh, man!

0:30:490:30:51

APPLAUSE

0:30:510:30:53

I would like to thank everybody for coming.

0:30:550:30:58

Hey, I appreciate everybody for coming today

0:31:060:31:09

and everything everybody brought.

0:31:090:31:10

I appreciate supporting us and everything...

0:31:100:31:12

'I mean, she's probably nervous about the process

0:31:120:31:15

'as any female who ain't never had a daughter.

0:31:150:31:18

'That's a scary process.'

0:31:180:31:19

All right, you all ready?

0:31:190:31:21

Ra Ra, we need for you to smile. We can do this all day.

0:31:210:31:23

-You're making me feel famous.

-Come on!

0:31:230:31:25

-Get together, make it closer.

-I'm telling you.

-Thank you!

-Yes!

-Yeah!

0:31:250:31:30

-You like that?

-My picture first.

0:31:300:31:31

'You know, family, they're only going to want the best for you.'

0:31:340:31:37

-You got the big picture of you, right?

-Yeah.

0:31:370:31:39

I'm trying to hold on to, like, the positive side as well.

0:31:390:31:43

'I don't got an average 17-year-old lifestyle.'

0:31:440:31:47

My daughter not really here yet,

0:31:470:31:50

but it's going to get real when she get here.

0:31:500:31:53

-RADIO:

-All radio holders to the cafeteria, 10-83.

0:31:580:32:01

All radio holders to the cafeteria, multiple 10-83s.

0:32:010:32:05

-Dr Peters, could you meet me in the front office?

-Ten-four.

0:32:050:32:09

-Block this whole area off. Don't let nobody go out this door.

-Mr Lee.

0:32:120:32:17

See, that's how the people go. They going to class.

0:32:170:32:21

This is when they start. See where they're coming from...

0:32:210:32:25

Oh, there she go right there. Standing around... Oh, Lord!

0:32:250:32:29

-That's her with the blue and pink...

-Mm-hmm.

-Yeah, OK.

0:32:300:32:33

-Yeah.

-This is ridiculous.

0:32:380:32:42

-OK, so that's the first fight that broke out.

-Right.

0:32:420:32:46

There you go.

0:32:470:32:49

-And then something else happens.

-Right.

0:32:510:32:53

So there was a period of time in between the first fight

0:32:530:32:58

and the second one.

0:32:580:33:00

-And then, all of a sudden, somebody pulls her back.

-Uh-huh.

0:33:000:33:05

She fights to get loose.

0:33:050:33:06

We already broke these two up.

0:33:060:33:08

-So something happened after that, too?

-She walked up and hit somebody.

0:33:080:33:11

I don't know...

0:33:110:33:12

What a fiasco!

0:33:140:33:15

This is a school.

0:33:150:33:17

It's not a wrestling ring, it's not a boxing match - it's a school.

0:33:170:33:21

'When I saw the huge brawl between multiple girls,

0:33:210:33:26

'I was literally almost sick at my stomach.

0:33:260:33:30

'I was appalled to the degree

0:33:300:33:32

'that I sometimes wonder during times like that

0:33:320:33:36

'whether I am in the right place

0:33:360:33:38

'doing the right things for our children.

0:33:380:33:41

'It makes you personally reflect deeply on,

0:33:430:33:46

'"Can I make a difference?"'

0:33:460:33:48

TANNOY: Please excuse this interruption.

0:33:480:33:51

Very seldom will you hear my voice over the PA system

0:33:510:33:55

during instructional time, but I think it is necessary

0:33:550:33:59

for the students today to hear my voice

0:33:590:34:02

in reference to the morning that we've had at OW.

0:34:020:34:07

How disappointing it is to me as your leader,

0:34:070:34:11

who tries along with your teachers and those with whom you live,

0:34:110:34:15

to try to establish a better pathway for your life.

0:34:150:34:19

But I will tell you that those students who were involved

0:34:190:34:23

directly and indirectly will receive the harshest punishment possible.

0:34:230:34:29

You will not see them here at Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School.

0:34:290:34:32

Thank you for your attention and thank you for your adjustment

0:34:320:34:37

of the behaviour that is expected at O-W.

0:34:370:34:40

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

0:34:410:34:44

A total of 11 students - it has not been final yet,

0:34:440:34:48

but I believe all 11 students will be recommended for expulsion.

0:34:480:34:53

-You got another bill on me.

-I told you!

0:35:010:35:05

No, I don't say stuff just to be saying it.

0:35:050:35:08

Every time I think you're getting it,

0:35:080:35:10

you show me you're really not getting it.

0:35:100:35:12

No, no, no, no, no.

0:35:120:35:13

Thursday night - what a night.

0:35:130:35:17

I'm telling you, everything you do from now on is on you.

0:35:170:35:23

'My mom told Vernon that he had to go

0:35:230:35:26

'and she told me that when she was talking to him,

0:35:260:35:30

'he didn't come off as apologetic'

0:35:300:35:34

so that's when she said that he had to go.

0:35:340:35:37

She put me out, but I understood why she put me out.

0:35:410:35:45

Shanika said it was hurting her to see me hurting

0:35:470:35:50

because she loved me like I'm her own child and that made me, like,

0:35:500:35:55

cry even more because I feel like Shanika is the mother

0:35:550:35:59

that I, like, always wanted and I never had.

0:35:590:36:02

You never know what the future holds.

0:36:070:36:10

# Sometimes in the morning... #

0:36:190:36:23

Today, I've got to go to the district

0:36:230:36:25

and see if they're going to let me back in school.

0:36:250:36:27

# Well, I get up off my knees, Jesus... #

0:36:270:36:30

Do I believe in second chances? I honestly do.

0:36:300:36:34

# Oh, Jesus

0:36:340:36:36

# Jesus... #

0:36:360:36:40

I pray for God that I get back in school and I know that my mom,

0:36:410:36:46

she will be there defending me.

0:36:460:36:47

O mighty man of valour, Lord God,

0:36:490:36:52

let others see that you are blessing him in such an awesome way.

0:36:520:36:56

I'm going to ask God to forgive me for this one

0:36:560:36:59

because I'm really lost, you know.

0:36:590:37:01

Kids who've been recommended,

0:37:120:37:14

they've either been sent to the alternative school

0:37:140:37:17

or they have been completely expelled.

0:37:170:37:20

What scares me a little bit about the alternative school,

0:37:220:37:24

he would be in the mix with children

0:37:240:37:26

who don't have the best of intentions sometimes.

0:37:260:37:29

I've got to go in there, talk to them,

0:37:310:37:34

tell them what do I got to do.

0:37:340:37:37

It's my first-time experience, I've never been through this before.

0:37:370:37:40

I'm not planning on going back.

0:37:400:37:42

-Are you feeling nervous?

-Hmm...

0:37:440:37:48

A little bit.

0:37:480:37:49

We're here!

0:37:550:37:57

Here goes nothing.

0:37:570:37:59

I think with what he has, I think he has a chance at coming back.

0:38:010:38:08

'I'm scared. I don't want to be a failure.'

0:38:130:38:16

In God's hands!

0:38:180:38:19

He's not a bad kid.

0:38:210:38:22

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah!

0:38:480:38:49

CHEERING

0:38:490:38:51

Thanks for attending the lip-sync battle.

0:38:530:38:55

Our host tonight will be Chrissy Teigeni.

0:38:550:38:58

All right, all right.

0:38:590:39:01

So, we've got Miss Johnson

0:39:010:39:02

doing Mary J Blige - Real Love.

0:39:020:39:04

CHEERING

0:39:040:39:06

# Won't you be my inspiration

0:39:110:39:14

# Be the real love that I need

0:39:140:39:17

# Real love

0:39:170:39:19

# I'm searching for real love

0:39:200:39:24

# Someone to set my heart free... #

0:39:240:39:27

Make some noise!

0:39:290:39:31

CHEERING

0:39:310:39:33

MUSIC: Pop That by French Montana

0:39:330:39:36

HE MOUTHS

0:40:040:40:06

CHEERING

0:40:100:40:13

Ohhhhhh!

0:40:260:40:28

CHEERING

0:40:330:40:34

CHEERING

0:40:430:40:45

So, most of you got the idea.

0:40:470:40:49

There are several of you still talking, I don't know why.

0:40:490:40:52

I've got the mic up to my mouth.

0:40:520:40:54

I will tell you, as your principal, I did not like what I saw.

0:40:540:40:58

There has to be a certain standard, there has to be a boundary,

0:40:580:41:02

there has to be a line that you don't cross.

0:41:020:41:05

I don't care how much fun you think you had, who laughed at you -

0:41:050:41:09

when you cross that line, there's a consequence on the other side.

0:41:090:41:13

I'm going to tell you all something -

0:41:130:41:16

you need to wake up because that world out there

0:41:160:41:18

isn't going to give you an opportunity

0:41:180:41:20

to cross too many of those boundaries.

0:41:200:41:22

And because you think that this kind of behaviour is normal concerns me.

0:41:220:41:28

Vernon...

0:41:300:41:31

Vernon, come here.

0:41:320:41:34

So, listen, Vernon took advantage of an opportunity

0:41:400:41:44

when attention could be directed to him, right?

0:41:440:41:49

He did something that I don't agree with and...

0:41:490:41:52

MURMURING

0:41:520:41:53

Are y'all going to listen or are you going to respond?

0:41:530:41:56

Are you going to listen or are you going to respond?

0:41:590:42:01

We're trying to teach you to have a standard

0:42:040:42:08

and before this year's over, one way or another,

0:42:080:42:12

you're going to get my message.

0:42:120:42:13

I am so disappointed in what you decided to do.

0:42:150:42:18

You could have stood up and danced without being raunchy.

0:42:180:42:22

That wasn't cool.

0:42:220:42:23

You do that in the college you go to

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and see if they're going to put you out of school.

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Seriously, that was wrong of you to do in here today.

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It was wrong.

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I was praying for my daddy to get out of jail early.

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-You get in some trouble?

-Not some trouble.

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Me, I was praying that I get back in school.

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She got me on the ground, was kicking me.

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There's video probably somewhere,

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you can see where everything happened.

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