HBO Documentary-- No Child Left Behind on NOW!

[Champs Elysees]

I'm watching. This looks strangely familiar . . .

[Mmm Mmm Brown!]

It was called Bad Times at Douglas High... I live right down the street from this school, and used to practice for my summer track league there (in the 90's.) I literally almost cried. This hit home too much. Out of 300-400 students, 3 can read on grade level... 3???

[LogAKAlly <3'n Keef]

THANK YOU X 3!!!!

I wanted to watch this SOOOOOOOOO bad. Luckily I'm on the West Coast so I haven't missed it...it'll be on in 35 min

[Bigs]

I watched this and it truly disappointed me. NOt because of the school in Baltimore, but because it literally could have been Frederick Douglass High School in Oklahoma City (one of my old hs, and around the corner from my house now), or any other intercity top 50 metropolitan area school.


I am more appalled at general lack of respect for anything exhibited by our youth. I was in hs 15 years ago, and we had knuckleheads, but that took the cake.

[No Screen Name]

I just saw this on demand yesterday. I am appalled. I don't even know where to start, or what the solution is. Watching stuff like that makes me feel overwhelmed.

My friend I was watching this with thought it was excellent that the entire staff was fired and replaced. But I told her, "What is THAT going to do? How will that change anything?" They were using mostly uncertified temporary/substitute teachers, and nobody wanted to teach there anyway. So how will firing everybody solve anything? And it looked to me like they were doing the best they could anyway, with the skimpy resources that they had.

[happy1]

Mr. Hill (shown counseling the basketball team on college admissions is Iota)