00:07My name is as you can see I'm a little nervous
00:13I'm doing anyway
00:25What's up yeah, where do you go to high school in high school yet?
00:29We're making a school a new school Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School be can
00:58What the camp is trying to do with the family and community ideals I think you can really set down
01:04some strong roots
01:10We got to start dealing with the truth, what should they have to do in order to be accepted back
01:15give them some detentions, okay?
01:19I'm the principal. I'm James O'Brien. What's your name? You're not stagging right? Pull up your pants. All right,
01:24let's do it
01:25High school baby
01:27So mr. Raven tell us a little bit about yourself a graffiti writer a rapper English teacher
01:34I love teaching high school. I love teaching kids. I love teaching buck-bub children
01:39It's John Darnell reporter for duty. This is the road that gay people should be on they should be free
01:44Just like the birds in the sky, but instead they're being beat up which is not appreciated go go
01:52This is disgusting how do you get a D plus English?
02:04Well, I wasn't a great student in high school. I did a lot of drugs every day
02:08It's not that you're lazy
02:10You don't think you're gonna do so well on it, so you're rushing
02:14The thing that was the biggest obstacle for me was writing and yeah, that definitely informs my being a teacher
02:21I'm big and I'm smart. Yes. What the fuck you doing standing on the corner 24-7?
02:26So when somebody says something to me, I always say something back
02:29No, we cannot she made the semester honor roll you made honor roll
02:36You haven't even defined like what our mission is as a school how you manage a classroom and how you
02:42structure a classroom
02:43How can you not be here tonight? This is our first night to shine and all your work is gonna
02:47be shown and everything
02:48Our work is why
02:51Most kids want to learn but the reason they resist is because they don't know how to do the work
02:59In school and just with my friends and no, there is always trouble that got to happen
03:05I'm so horrified by our students alive and behavior
03:11I can't stand these situations where I feel like I'm a cop
03:14You do not supposed to chew gum in school
03:18Yo, you have serious emotional issues
03:22If he has six detentions, then that must mean that he did six things that were wrong
03:27We have to work together on this
03:31This is going to taste some getting used to for the both of us
03:34Bottom line
03:50This school is something about it. I just don't know what it is
03:53And this energy, this positive energy
03:55It's like when I wake up for b-cam in the morning, I feel happy
04:04I think we're learning that education has to be as much about the relationships within the community
04:09As it is about what we teach
04:11In fact, knowing each other is what informs what we teach and how we teach it
04:15And it's amazing that you can open up a public school
04:18But what remains to be seen is whether we're going to be able to live up to all those high
04:22ideals
04:23, and together that we know into the community
04:27Of helping people with the definition of grating
04:29And the industry is much more тор Arabs
04:32This is the production of Embrace
04:33We need some liberty
04:34Before we go
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