Rising Above
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00:00I
00:30I
00:46See everything's fine
00:57Hey stop
01:00But here
01:05Actually, that's a bit extreme well, it's not worth the risk
01:07I
01:37Oh
01:48Thanks
01:53Hey, don't do that. Did you say something? That's what I thought. Yo, where's that? It's over
02:00I
02:10See we have a new student, please stand tell us your name
02:18My name is Ashley Evans
02:20Hopefully you're not too far behind in the curriculum, but I'll get you just have a seat there
02:24Well, it's always nice to have some fresh blood here
02:28Let's turn our textbooks to page 207
02:34History is always in the making. What will your history be?
02:49Watch it
02:52Uh here, thanks. Yeah, I'm max
02:56Ashley, what's your name's class?
02:59Spanish. Oh, I got drama. Hey, there's a new teacher today
03:09Later okay. Well, welcome. I'm really looking forward to hearing what you've been doing in drama
03:16Um, so what play have you been working on this semester?
03:22Oh
03:29Thank you, honey, can you hear me tomato?
03:41So
03:43How'd it go today? It was just
03:46school
03:48Come on, tell me about one class
03:51Okay
03:54History was good. Really
03:57Teacher seems kind of eccentric
04:00Yeah, he was okay. Look it's not perfect
04:03But we're lucky, you know, it's hard to find a position in the middle of the school year
04:07So does that mean we're lucky that the previous drama teacher died?
04:12Lemony from lemons
04:21I
04:51Can't believe you went
05:21Oh
05:28Hey, hey pick it up
05:51You
06:09Gotta give him credit. You know what I make the fun
06:14The next leader of that
06:18Gang
06:19Yeah, you know what you got Burnside right next to moves 95% mass 5% brain
06:25You got Carrie the Queen Bee got a whole hive falling her all the time, you know
06:35Anyone ever heard of chivalry
06:38Like when you open the door for a girl, how would he know? It's not like any girl's gonna get that close to him anyways
06:45Protectors of the weak and defenseless and warriors
06:49Against monsters who threatened this land lame
06:53You know, that's what all the wannabe night said they were too busy being monsters instead of protectors
07:00Maybe
07:14See I tracked down this virus from my aunt's computer now
07:17It's meant to intrude and collect information. I'll send it back to the sender. Yeah, I found out where the source is coming from
07:34My laptop, yeah, what a Friday, right would you cut it out?
07:38Look max
07:41Shining arm. I'm sorry in what world is this actually cool? Didn't you push no kids around on the playground ten years ago?
07:48Yeah, well later losers
07:52This is incomplete
07:55Well, I don't get it
07:57Well, maybe if you spent less time goofing off with your friends and more time actually paying attention you'd understand
08:02Now I want you to take it home and I want you to try again
08:05Go on
08:18Hey, that's mine
08:20Hey
08:22Here's where you're getting it wrong
08:26That should be why you're making the same mistake on every problem
08:35Have you met a girl named Angie yet?
08:39No, I don't think so
08:42Somebody dropped out of the play I was thinking about using her as a replacement. Yeah
08:48Olivia
08:49We're doing Twelfth Night
08:52You'd be such a great Olivia
08:56It's not even a starring role. No, I don't have time in my class schedule for drama. Okay, I
09:04Would like to introduce our new drama teacher ms. Johnson
09:10She's going to help demonstrate these traditional dances, which we will then all learn so
09:17With dancing there was real communication
09:22dancing allowed
09:26For intimate closeness and
09:32Private conversation
09:38Okay, everyone come on up here now we're all gonna try it
09:47You know, mr. Carlo, I can't really risk injuring myself in the offseason
09:51So if you injure yourself doing this, then I'd highly reconsider calling yourself an athlete. All right. Come on guys
09:56Let's pair up Nick and Ashley
09:59Max and way
10:00Brennan Patrick, come on up
10:06All right, everyone ready grab your partners like this and follow us
10:12Now back in Civil War times dancing was enjoyed by everyone
10:21Hey, what makes you think that you know me I don't I know guys like you
10:29What's that supposed to mean
10:32Nothing
10:35No, I want to know okay fine
10:41I know you lame self-centered guys who always have to be on top
10:45Can't go two seconds about putting someone else down and why because in some perverse way it makes you feel better
10:54Not all those things
10:56fine
10:58Prove me wrong. I had a kid cut himself on one of the pages of the play. Are you serious?
11:04Let a law for a paper cut I had to send him to the school nurse
11:08What is this
11:10What it came here, well, I changed her address with the post office. Yeah, but mom they could track us here
11:16They can't are you sure they won't track us here. Okay, they got what they wanted
11:24Sweet it's just junk
11:40I
12:11You
12:24Hey
12:26What are you following me now?
12:28No
12:30Just saw you coming back here. I thought I'd see what you were doing
12:33Just exploring
12:35My old school didn't have anything like this
12:41You
12:44Why
12:46Why what
12:49Why are you being nice all of a sudden
12:52Why does it matter to you now it doesn't
13:00Okay
13:05Everyone around here knows me
13:08But you don't
13:11So
13:15It's like one minute you're getting all over my case and then the next you're helping me
13:22My special apologize for that. Oh, I just
13:29You did what you did I helped you through math, okay, it's not that big of a deal is that big of a deal
13:35I
13:37Mean I wouldn't have helped. Oh, I know
13:43Well, that's it for today
13:46But I do have your next assignment
13:48Now here's what I want you to do
13:50I want you to pick a place that has history any place at all City Hall a museum a monument
13:58Go there and write about it and what it means to you
14:02Um, how long does the paper have to be just two or three pages you can make it longer yeah, right
14:11Do next week
14:22Oh, sorry
14:24You know max, right, why aren't you nicer to me and max grew up together actually friends
14:32Then he started getting into all this tech stuff and I don't know that's not really how I roll so
14:38Drifted apart
14:41I mean, it's like you said people change
14:45I
14:47Don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
14:49I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
14:52You can change yeah, but there's a difference between changing and changing for the better
15:13My keys were my purse
15:17Found them
15:20By the spaghetti sauce
15:25Special requests
15:28Chips and cereal, of course. Okay. Thanks mom
15:36Hi, hi
15:40Um is
15:43Ashley here
15:47What are you doing here
15:50Uh, I was just gonna go do that that history assignment have you started
15:58No
16:00Well, I I had a place if you wanted to go sounds good. Yeah, you should get out
16:10I'll go get my shoes
16:13My mom's grandpa flew one of these. Yeah
16:20B-17 flying Fortress
16:26Did he ever see any action
16:29Yeah, he was uh, he's flying over Germany when he was fired on
16:34No way. Yeah
16:37What did he do?
16:39What did he do well it tore through the whole side
16:44Trapping one of his crew in the tail
16:47And five of his men bail just in case he couldn't land the plane safely
16:53And the rest of the men use their own parachutes and hold the tail on
17:00Are they okay?
17:02Yeah, he uh
17:05Landed the plane safely. Well, I was left of the plane. I gave him a medal for it
17:13Wow, it's really cool story
17:18It's a story
17:21Really happy
17:34Why did you ask me to go with you I
17:38Don't know I just thought you might like it I did
17:50Her great-grandfather saved the plane and the men in it
17:53To me it used to be some war that happened years ago
17:57It's others. It's a real event
17:59That changes your perspective just like seeing that b-17 changed my perspective it wasn't just a story
18:07It was history
18:16Well, hello brings you here
18:21Just basking in a moment of triumph
18:24One of my students is finally starting to get it. Oh
18:28Who Nick Thomas
18:31Very good
18:34What what is this a fog machine I use it in some of the plays that I do
18:41You know, I'm just being careful, you know, what kind of mother would I be if I let my daughter go out with just any
18:47And it appeared that the British were going to beat the Americans
18:57To make them surrender and the whole way home
19:15She pined and thought and with a green and yellow melancholy she sat
19:21like patience on a monument
19:25Smiling at grief
19:28Was not this love indeed
19:32We men say more
19:35swear more
19:37But indeed our shows are more than will
19:42For still we prove much in our vows but little in our love
19:51Hey mom, I can't find the keys that
19:53Oh
19:55Keys to the house. Oh
19:57we're just rehearsing a scene isn't Viola supposed to
20:00Step back there at the end. Yeah, and
20:03Or Sino should probably just stay put. Yeah, I'm gonna wait
20:14Did you see what that Ashley girl's weighing
20:17Yeah, and her hair maxi
20:21Hey texting your mom
20:23Here. Oh, let's buy something
20:26That looks good. Oops. How about this one?
20:31Stop I need new shoes pink, maybe
20:38Hey
20:40Let him go
20:43Hey, I didn't finish you're done dude
20:50You
20:54What was that
20:58You're freaking me out
21:00Nothing. Nothing. Did you see what you just did? Did you I don't know what's going on with you, but just stop it
21:10No, so you're gonna turn loser on me, why do you care I don't
21:15I'm not hanging around for this new Nick
21:18We're through have fun crying yourself to sleep tonight I
21:24Think I'll be okay
21:28How's Ashley handling the moon
21:31As well as can be expected
21:34About five months ago
21:37She had a ton of friends
21:39She's a great student. Well as great as any teenage girl can be who spends more time on the phone than doing homework
21:47But
21:50Suddenly I mean completely out of the blue everybody started to hate her
21:58She had no idea why so many of her friends were pulling away and
22:03Well, anyway, we found this profile online it was linked to all of her friends everyone from her school
22:13Someone was pretending to be her and
22:16They were saying all these horrible things about everybody else and of course everybody thought it was Ashley
22:22Well, who was it?
22:24two of my students
22:26two girls
22:27Were they stopped?
22:32Even some of the adults started hearing what Ashley was supposedly saying
22:36Absolutely unacceptable. She should be suspended if I had any say what kind of daughter have you raised?
22:42You should be ashamed of yourself and her
22:47Lies spread faster than truth. I mean in everyone's mind Ashley was guilty. The truth didn't matter
22:53Kids started shunning her at school
22:56Then attacking her
22:59What was being said online by the other girls was just so much hate
23:03How long did this go on for?
23:05two months
23:07What did the attorney say wasn't good
23:11I'm just this is gonna blow mom. Wake up. No, he's gonna blow
23:21Actually begged me to move
23:25We left in the middle of the night two days later
23:29Julian I'm so sorry
23:31Don't be
23:33No, not for me. Anyway
23:36Is there anything I can do to help her? I'll just be patient with her
23:41She's a good kid just gonna take a little while for her to open back up
23:48Thanks for your help
23:50Thanks for the pizza
23:52Hey, um
23:54Why don't girls do it?
23:57Ashley was cast as the lead in a play. She used to love theater. I
24:02even had two other faculty members decide on who to cast just to make sure I wasn't inadvertently giving her special treatment, but
24:09One of those girls really wanted the part. Wait a minute all of it because of that
24:15They'll have no fury like a woman scorn
24:19And we're talking about teenage girls
24:27Hey, hi. Um, what are you doing?
24:33Just studying. Oh, would you like to take a break?
24:39Uh
24:42Sure
24:47You ready for this? Yeah, I guess so. You're not scared of heights or anything, are you? No
24:55So what you're gonna want to do is use these rips and well just climb with your legs
25:04Should be able to manage
25:09Oh
25:21You're pretty good at rock climbing, but how is your balance my balance
25:38Let you go
26:08I
26:15Was at the mall the other day and I saw this really cute like lace yellow
26:19Oh
26:35Hey, what's up with you?
26:39Don't give me any of that crap. You're not a saint. So this whole change is what a fake?
26:45Oh, yeah, are you just trying to score with that Ashley? Hey, man
26:49Watch it then. What's really going on? Nothing. Yeah, I keep telling yourself that you're being a wuss. Don't forget who you are, man
26:57I'm not
26:59Maybe I like who I am better when I'm with her
27:05Hey
27:07Hi, so did you hear about that party this weekend?
27:11Oh
27:14I'm not really one for parties. Come on. I mean, it'll be fun. I promise
27:23Okay, we'll see really yeah, okay
27:31Hey
27:34Stay away from him who oh, please. He's not into girls like you
27:40Oh
28:10Oh
28:19Actually, hi James, yeah
28:25Look great
28:28Yeah
28:38So
28:40What do you think?
28:41Looks like fun. Huh? Yeah, are you ready?
28:45For what to swim?
28:47No
29:01Here we are
29:03At least it looks more promising than the last party
29:07Hey that bad
29:09lame fest
29:12Cute
29:13Whoa Carrie, who's your friend watch it burn side cousin. I'm now this is Alana
29:24Okay, cool, I'll see you later probably I'll get your number maybe
29:43I
30:14Know
30:17That little slut who is that no way
30:30Ashley
30:32Mm-hmm
30:41Hey, there you tell me sure
30:46Good luck. Thanks Nick
30:50Hey, we need to talk yeah, well, I'm a little wet so you need to see this
31:02I
31:10Ashley
31:14What what are you doing here you didn't move far enough away
31:18People still talk about you at home, you know about what you did. I didn't do any of those things
31:24Yeah, that doesn't really matter. Does it I
31:28I can't believe you. How could you you ruined my life? Okay
31:34You've got what you want to just leave me alone. But what's the fun in that?
31:39Why
31:41Like me why not you got in my way you were so messed up
31:47You're so horrible. You should be ashamed. Well, I'm not
31:51Okay, and if you think that you can blackmail me here, you're wrong. I didn't think anyone would have a reason to blackmail you
31:58Oh
32:01This is a very different side of you
32:04What
32:06Darren gained 15 pounds over this weekend making up with doughnuts
32:11Just photoshop this
32:16I caught Libby in the closet with a janitor. What a ho
32:21Lisa if you don't get some gum, I'm gonna start Lysol in your mouth. It's funny
32:28Yeah, it's a very interesting profile you have here Ashley
32:32Johnson I
32:33Didn't say any of those things. Oh, really? You're just gonna pretend like you had nothing to do with this
32:39Do you know how many people you hurt back home? And now you're trying to do it over again here
32:48Nick
32:50Please listen. No, Ashley
32:52I'm done listening to all your crap
32:55Okay, you're crap about the way I act make me feel like I've done everything wrong yet here you are
33:03Biggest hypocrite of all been so busy judging everyone else. You never really stopped looking yourself
33:09Thank you. You have no idea what you're talking about. You're such a fake get out of here. Yeah, no one wants to hear anyway
33:17Let's go Ashley
33:24Oh
33:39Ashley
33:54Oh
34:16Then she falls in hey look there she is
34:24I
34:52Saw the video of what happened the other day
34:53I'm so sorry. I you're a hoe, you know that just leave me alone. How could you be so mean to my cousin?
35:00I wasn't and I'm willing to bet that you know that yep, but that's just our secret
35:06Hey next time you insult my family. You better be ready to face me. Got it
35:13Mel said it took her a couple months to run you out of town. I'm betting I can do it in a matter of days
35:23Oh
35:47Nice locker
35:50I
35:52Wanted the pink one can't believe you trashed my locker. I don't know what you're talking about drop the act
35:57It wasn't me. Okay, fine. Then you had someone do it for you. Maybe maybe not. You'll never know. Why are you doing this?
36:02Do I need a reason now get out of?
36:04Oh
36:16That is enough I
36:19Expect better behavior than this from the both of you. You're the last two girls. I would expect to be fighting
36:24She vandalized my locker. I would never do something like that. She probably did it herself
36:28Have you seen what she did at our old school to get attention? Oh stop it. Look at all the mean things
36:33She's saying that's a lie. Miss Tanner. I've grown up here. You know me. Does this sound like me Ashley?
36:39I know you're new here and your mother was sketchy on your history
36:41But at my school, we don't stand idly by while one student hurts another I didn't start this. Oh, please you did it before
36:49Ashley
36:51What's going on here
37:03Oh
37:20Max did you see where Ashley went? Yeah, she went that way. Wait, what's going on?
37:26I
37:33Can't do this anymore. I
37:39Spoke to miss Tanner. It's gonna be okay. Let's see. Believe you
37:48See it's just happening all over again. Why what why is this happening to me? I
37:55I don't know
37:57But we're gonna fight this why mom? There's no point. Nobody believes me. It doesn't matter what I say
38:05And you know
38:06None of this would have happened if it weren't for you
38:11Actually, that's not no mom you're the one that was always saying what a good student I wasn't praising me
38:17No wonder they came after me
38:19You know if it wasn't you it was gonna be somebody else
38:24I wish
38:26I bet you do
38:29Now you're dating mr. Carlisle, he's trying to make this worse for me. We're not dating. It sure looks like you are
38:36look
38:39Ashley
38:40If you want to blame me fine, I'm I'm okay with that
38:45But better yet blame the girls that are at fault here
38:49Blame Alana and Mel and and now carry if it makes you feel any better blame everybody who never believed the truth
38:57I'm sure there's plenty of blame to go around
39:02Whatever you do do not give them the satisfaction of tearing us apart, too
39:13Sorry
39:18Oh
39:27You know, maybe we we shouldn't have run before we gave them exactly what they wanted
39:41Do
39:43Well, whatever you do
39:46Whatever you decide if you stay or go fight or run
39:53We're gonna do it together, okay
40:15Thank you Kylie that was interesting
40:26Hey Nick, you want to go see a movie later tonight?
40:30No
40:33Nick what have you seen Ashley? No, and I don't want to I
40:39Can't believe you think she'd do that
40:41And you don't I know her better than that I don't buy it. Okay. Well, you're the only one
40:48Look, man. I saw I saw what she wrote online just because here's something new about her doesn't mean that it's true
40:53Well, it doesn't mean that it's not does any of it even sound like the Ashley that you know, okay
40:57Look, she was pretending why?
41:00And obviously people hated her for the crap that's written
41:03It's all her. Why wouldn't she take it down? I don't know
41:07My guess is that it was a fake account. Look whatever
41:12I'm gonna let room restart about me. I'll put principal Tanner on the FBI's most wanted list. Yeah, so
41:20Let's spread faster that rumor or me trying to say I didn't do it
41:28Just give her the benefit of the doubt
41:41You
41:58Can I help you
42:01Um, yeah, is Ashley here she wasn't feeling up to school today
42:05I
42:07See here
42:09She answer no, no
42:15Hey, look, I just I just want to talk to her
42:35I
42:54Was stupid hey, I heard some things about you and I just I assume they were true
43:01But I don't know what happened to you before you moved here
43:08But if I'm gonna hear from anyone rather be
43:12Well, you sure seem like you knew everything at the party. I was stupid
43:20You can be mad at me I mean obviously you are but
43:27If it helps throw it at me
43:31I
43:33Feel better no
43:38There's only one thing I can think of it'll help
43:43Telling everybody off. Do you really think that they'd care?
43:48Maybe I mean I did when you called me out on being
43:54Wow me
44:00I just I gotta leave this place behind
44:08Thinking of moving I want to I don't know
44:21Stay
44:31You've no idea what I'm gonna face if I stay
44:35I'll be right here with you. You said it yourself. You don't even know what happened doesn't matter
44:44I know you
45:01I
45:03Know it for
45:13Hey
45:14Hi, I didn't know you played. Oh
45:18Uh, I don't I just figured my life's pretty much a country song anyway, so might as well learn
45:25Mm-hmm
45:28Well
45:29brush you missing homework assignments
45:33Thanks, hey, you're welcome. Oh
45:36And your video presentation is due in history
45:40Gosh, I haven't even started on that
45:43Well, would you like some help?
45:46Hey Max, yes Nick
45:49So I was wondering if you could help us with something
45:52Yeah, yeah, we're over at Ashley's
46:02Okay, this could work that's perfect
46:11Max this is great. All right. Thanks. You sure you can pull this off Oh hacking into the school networks cake
46:21Oh
46:44Hey, you ready I think so don't worry you're gonna be great
46:52Okay do this
47:00All right
47:03Continuing with our video presentations history and your life
47:09Ashley
47:22Hi
47:27My name is Ashley Johnson not Evans
47:29I changed my name when I moved here and I'll get to why later
47:33But the event in history that I want to talk about happened in many parts of the world
47:38It happened over 300 years ago when a Shakespeare's most resulted in the deaths from anywhere to 50,000 to 100,000 people
47:44In colonial, Massachusetts this event started in a village called Salem where these girls started having fits
47:51To serve local authorities
47:56What's wrong with these crazy girls there's witches no three witches they put a curse on us well bring the witches here
48:08So
48:10You're a witch. No, I'm not too bad. That's the story. We're going
48:15But it's not it's not true. Well, we'll see
48:18Drown her if she floats to the top and is alive. She's a witch. Well, she survives that then how do we execute her?
48:27Well, hang on but what if I die from drowning
48:32Well, then I guess you're innocent
48:41The girls accusations led to a chain of hysteria over 200 people were accused of witchcraft
48:4720 were hung
48:49the colony eventually admitted that the witch trials were a mistake, but
48:55You're probably wondering how this bit of history relates to my life
49:00I used to think that the history didn't really matter
49:04know that you could just
49:07forget the past
49:09Ignore it and move on
49:11But where I lived before I came here
49:14It wasn't enough that I was a good person
49:16All it took were those that wanted to ruin my reputation I
49:21Was accused of terrible things and I didn't none of them
49:26All it took were two girls and false accusations
49:31In a matter of days, I lost most of my friends a
49:35Couple of my closest ones held on for a few more weeks
49:39But people were believing the lie so much that they started attacking me
49:46And other than my mom I
49:49Had no one to believe in me
49:51So
49:53We ran away
49:55And it didn't help like I thought it would
49:58And for those of you that have heard anything about me in the last few days
50:01You already know that
50:07And if history's taught me anything is that there are those people out there that love to watch others suffer
50:12Loyalty fades under pressure and there are very few nights out there that are willing to fight for you
50:19But they are out there
50:23But you know what
50:25And if history's taught me anything is that there are those people out there that love to watch others suffer
50:31Loyalty fades under pressure and there are very few nights out there that are willing to fight for you
50:36And there are very few nights out there that are willing to fight for you
50:41But they are out there
50:45But you know what
50:47my past
50:49It isn't the end of the world
50:51Better things are in store. I just have to fight for him
50:57So I'm standing up
50:59I'm not gonna sit here and wait for someone to come forward and admit that they made a mistake
51:04Enough is enough. I'm not gonna bow down to those that get a thrill from watching me suffer
51:11In Salem all it took to destroy someone that you didn't like was to call them a witch
51:18Today you just just make up some other lie
51:23Essentially I have been accused of being a witch
51:27No matter what I say the witch trials find me guilty
51:29But I know what happened
51:33So, I guess it's up to you to decide whether you want to think and feel for yourself
51:38Or wait till I drown
51:41History is what you make of it, right?
51:45So I'm making sure that mine is the truth
51:59Summer
52:05Hi, my name is Ashley Johnson, you're a witch no, I'm not I was accused of terrible things so I'm standing up
52:14Enough is enough
52:16History is what you make of it, right?
52:18So I'm making sure that mine is the truth
52:23All it took were two girls and false accusations
52:29Do you want to say something to me say it to my face
53:00Oh
53:07So
53:10Now that things are fine if anyone Ashley
53:14Do you think it would crank up the awkwardness?
53:17You and I went out on a date
53:20Yes, definitely
53:29She's a strong girl she can handle it besides I think she likes us