1
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<i>Maybe teachers have a hidden life. </i>

2
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<i>Where they're actually like human. </i>

3
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<i>Where they have, </i>
<i>I don't know, dignity. </i>

4
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<i>Or maybe not. </i>

5
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Sorry. Tooth pick? Anybody else?

6
00:02:03,270 --> 00:02:04,897
Tooth pick?

7
00:02:04,971 --> 00:02:08,270
- Way-way-wait. What did he say?
- Yo. Speak up, bro.

8
00:02:08,408 --> 00:02:12,139
He said tooth pick. Right?
Isn't that what you said?

9
00:02:12,212 --> 00:02:13,201
Tooth pick.

10
00:02:16,349 --> 00:02:18,840
So, why you here?
You the new substitute?

11
00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:24,186
Why am I here? Yes, good question.
I'm the new substitute.

12
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- Yes. I'm here quite simply to get paid.
- Yes, right.

13
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Assuming all of you
can read and write...

14
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I don't perceive
any emergency situation.

15
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That's all.
Continue wasting your lives.

16
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So, are we dismissed?

17
00:02:50,517 --> 00:02:52,508
Do you want to be dismissed?

18
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No, you just said
that was all you had to say, so.

19
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I will be here for the
next forty-seven minutes.

20
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Whether you will also be here for that
time is, to be candid, your decision.

21
00:03:05,599 --> 00:03:07,931
- What's the catch?
- No catch.

22
00:03:08,001 --> 00:03:11,300
You don't want to be here. Go.
I'm not going to stop you.

23
00:03:14,374 --> 00:03:19,368
Well, you know,
there is just one catch.

24
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We will be discussing
you in your absence.

25
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But, you know,
if you don't mind that.

26
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- Yes, right.
- It's no joke. I have no lesson planned.

27
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Trashing you in your absence,
will help pass the time.

28
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Right? You know, it could
possibly be educational as well.

29
00:03:43,603 --> 00:03:45,628
So what are we suppose to do?

30
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I've known you all of five minutes...

31
00:03:47,741 --> 00:03:51,108
and you want me to tell you
what you're suppose to do?

32
00:03:51,177 --> 00:03:55,477
Fine, follow your hearts
and veer away from heroin.

33
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No, I meant in the next
forty-seven minutes.

34
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I know what you meant.
That was sarcasm. What?

35
00:04:02,222 --> 00:04:06,454
One of the things we were suppose
to do this semester...

36
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was this issue of the literary magazine.

37
00:04:12,766 --> 00:04:18,398
Like we each wrote something,
but Mayhew, that's our teacher...

38
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she never approved the writing
or whatever, because she just quit.

39
00:04:24,077 --> 00:04:29,481
- So, we just never did it.
- That's a heart breaking tale.

40
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What I meant was that,
I know where they are.

41
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I mean, the stuff we wrote.
It's in there.

42
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So, could you, just, at least, read it,
so we could get credit for it?

43
00:04:45,732 --> 00:04:47,495
Why not.

44
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Wait, so, lets go over it
one more time.

45
00:04:50,403 --> 00:04:54,169
Look, you don't even have to be there.
This should be me.

46
00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,071
Fine.

47
00:04:57,143 --> 00:05:00,169
I'll take him out to dinner and make
it clear that we'll redo the job at cost.

48
00:05:00,246 --> 00:05:02,237
Fine. Whatever.

49
00:05:02,315 --> 00:05:05,773
Castro listens to me. He trusts me.
I mean, you know, not that he...

50
00:05:05,852 --> 00:05:08,446
No, no, no. You're right.
You should handle it.

51
00:05:08,521 --> 00:05:11,513
Anyway, I need you to take Danielle
to the cookie booth and back...

52
00:05:11,591 --> 00:05:14,617
- Tomorrow night.
- The cookie booth?

53
00:05:14,761 --> 00:05:19,198
It's girl scout cookie time again.
I signed her up.

54
00:05:19,265 --> 00:05:24,032
You sign her up. I end up at the booth.
Yes, well. Fine.

55
00:05:24,104 --> 00:05:26,265
I'll call Neal
and cancel our pool game.

56
00:05:26,339 --> 00:05:31,208
You had plans. Maybe you can
call one of the other moms and...

57
00:05:31,277 --> 00:05:33,871
What, and miss the cookie booth?

58
00:05:33,947 --> 00:05:38,213
I almost forgot. One of us has
to call Angela's English teacher...

59
00:05:38,284 --> 00:05:40,218
I think her name is Mayhew...

60
00:05:40,286 --> 00:05:43,119
and see if they want us to print
the Lit magazine again this year.

61
00:05:43,189 --> 00:05:46,317
I reserved the press time.
One of us should call. You should.

62
00:05:47,961 --> 00:05:49,952
You forgot to buy kitty litter again.

63
00:05:50,030 --> 00:05:53,625
I thought you said you would.
You know what we need?

64
00:05:55,602 --> 00:05:57,433
A wife.

65
00:06:08,648 --> 00:06:09,876
Well...

66
00:06:12,652 --> 00:06:16,748
I've had the privilege of reading
your entries for the Liberty Lit.

67
00:06:16,823 --> 00:06:21,760
And, how shall I describe them?
Good question.

68
00:06:21,828 --> 00:06:26,026
Let's see. Boring.

69
00:06:26,099 --> 00:06:28,761
The word boring comes to mind.

70
00:06:28,835 --> 00:06:32,271
Fake. False.

71
00:06:32,338 --> 00:06:36,604
Synthetic. Bogus.

72
00:06:36,676 --> 00:06:39,372
What do these words have in common?

73
00:06:41,514 --> 00:06:43,379
You.

74
00:06:47,020 --> 00:06:48,009
Me?

75
00:06:48,088 --> 00:06:50,283
Yes, what do these words
have in common?

76
00:06:50,356 --> 00:06:54,292
I know what you're going to say. That
they're synonyms meaning not genuine.

77
00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,295
Well, that's true,
that's absolutely true.

78
00:06:57,363 --> 00:07:01,800
But what else are they. I mean,
how else would you classify them?

79
00:07:01,868 --> 00:07:05,827
- I don't know.
- Yes, you do.

80
00:07:05,905 --> 00:07:08,135
You think I'm an idiot?

81
00:07:08,208 --> 00:07:11,268
If I tell you that the
class' work was safe, banal...

82
00:07:11,411 --> 00:07:17,646
homogenized, cutesy, appalling,
all of which is true by the way.

83
00:07:17,717 --> 00:07:20,982
What sort of words
am I using? Tell me.

84
00:07:21,054 --> 00:07:24,649
Don't give me that blank look.
You're not fooling anyone.

85
00:07:24,724 --> 00:07:29,161
I'm on to you.
You know this. You know this.

86
00:07:29,229 --> 00:07:32,323
- Not verbs. Not nouns. But?
- Adjectives.

87
00:07:32,398 --> 00:07:35,993
Adjectives!

88
00:07:36,069 --> 00:07:39,937
Don't you dare
play dumb with me again.

89
00:07:40,006 --> 00:07:42,839
Now, as for the rest of you...

90
00:07:46,079 --> 00:07:48,741
- How shall I phrase this?
- I don't believe this guy.

91
00:07:48,815 --> 00:07:53,252
This is the most God awful crap
I've ever read in my life.

92
00:07:59,859 --> 00:08:02,760
Hey, look at that.

93
00:08:06,266 --> 00:08:07,062
Hi.

94
00:08:07,133 --> 00:08:08,122
- Hi.
- Hi.

95
00:08:08,201 --> 00:08:10,533
You want to buy some
girl scout cookies?

96
00:08:10,603 --> 00:08:13,037
- Not really.
- You can owe me the money.

97
00:08:13,106 --> 00:08:15,438
Danielle, leave him alone.

98
00:08:21,781 --> 00:08:25,774
What? You've never seen someone
sew on a merit badge before?

99
00:08:25,852 --> 00:08:29,379
It's not a merit badge.
It's a proficiency badge.

100
00:08:29,455 --> 00:08:33,289
Hi, Brian. Angela. Brian's here.

101
00:08:33,359 --> 00:08:36,556
Just one box. You can
freeze them and eat them later.

102
00:08:36,629 --> 00:08:39,462
- Danielle.
- Forget it.

103
00:08:41,734 --> 00:08:44,225
Sorry about that.
What have you got there?

104
00:08:44,304 --> 00:08:47,740
Just this thing
Angela wrote that I found.

105
00:08:47,807 --> 00:08:52,403
Her oak tree poem. I loved that one.
Why does it have this foot print on it?

106
00:08:52,478 --> 00:08:54,969
Where are the others?
Weren't we going print them up?

107
00:08:55,048 --> 00:08:57,278
Angela didn't tell you?
He threw them out the window.

108
00:08:57,350 --> 00:08:58,339
Who?

109
00:08:58,418 --> 00:09:02,445
This new substitute who's,
like, mentally ill. Seriously.

110
00:09:02,522 --> 00:09:06,754
- No, he's not mentally ill.
- He threw them out of the window?

111
00:09:06,826 --> 00:09:09,795
- So, do you want this? Or...
- I think that's terrible.

112
00:09:09,929 --> 00:09:11,920
- Mom.
- I'm serious.

113
00:09:11,998 --> 00:09:13,989
You worked very hard on that poem.

114
00:09:14,067 --> 00:09:16,331
- You put a lot of thought into it.
- It's true. You did.

115
00:09:16,402 --> 00:09:18,529
I don't know.
I don't like it that much.

116
00:09:18,605 --> 00:09:20,937
- Honey, that's not the point.
- Exactly.

117
00:09:21,007 --> 00:09:24,170
I don't care if he is your teacher, he
has to treat you with common courtesy.

118
00:09:24,244 --> 00:09:27,145
Haven't we always taught you
to stand up for your rights?

119
00:09:27,213 --> 00:09:29,078
Thanks, Brian.

120
00:09:39,259 --> 00:09:45,129
Jordan? That's your name right.
Look, I appreciate the fact...

121
00:09:45,198 --> 00:09:48,964
you don't want to monopolize
the discussion, but, I mean, come on.

122
00:09:49,035 --> 00:09:51,970
I need you. Do you understand?
I need you to talk more.

123
00:09:52,038 --> 00:09:56,702
- Okay. Just, okay.
- All right.

124
00:09:56,776 --> 00:10:01,975
- By the way, you left this behind.
- I didn't leave that.

125
00:10:02,048 --> 00:10:05,040
Yes, just take it will you?
We'll discuss it tomorrow.

126
00:10:11,257 --> 00:10:14,852
- What?
- I...

127
00:10:14,928 --> 00:10:16,919
What? Say it.

128
00:10:20,566 --> 00:10:24,002
I just think what you
did yesterday wasn't right.

129
00:10:24,070 --> 00:10:27,062
I mean, in terms of
common courtesy.

130
00:10:28,574 --> 00:10:31,042
I just think it showed
a lack of respect.

131
00:10:31,110 --> 00:10:33,442
You mean when I threw
your work out of the window.

132
00:10:33,513 --> 00:10:34,571
Yes.

133
00:10:34,647 --> 00:10:38,845
I mean, that oak tree poem?
That was mine.

134
00:10:38,918 --> 00:10:42,854
- I put a lot of thought into that.
- Did you?

135
00:10:42,922 --> 00:10:48,360
Yes. I mean, why did you do it?

136
00:10:48,428 --> 00:10:54,367
Why did I do it? Good question.
I did it to clear the slate.

137
00:10:54,434 --> 00:10:57,699
I did it to wake you up.
I did it to do something.

138
00:10:57,770 --> 00:11:00,534
To find you. And now,
guess what, here you are.

139
00:11:00,606 --> 00:11:03,200
Wide awake. Right in front of me.

140
00:11:03,276 --> 00:11:08,043
I mean, wasn't that worth it?
I mean, that poem.

141
00:11:08,114 --> 00:11:11,311
That oak tree poem.

142
00:11:13,953 --> 00:11:19,118
That was yesterday.
What are you going to write today?

143
00:11:22,628 --> 00:11:24,960
Good question.

144
00:11:28,801 --> 00:11:30,792
Rayanne, you're not in this class.

145
00:11:30,870 --> 00:11:33,236
So. Neither are half these kids.
Come on.

146
00:11:33,306 --> 00:11:37,299
You've been talking about him
for three days. I got to view this guy.

147
00:11:41,147 --> 00:11:44,275
Get out your notebooks.

148
00:11:46,185 --> 00:11:49,916
Substitute my ass. He is the real deal.

149
00:11:49,989 --> 00:11:52,822
I want everyone to start over.
From the beginning.

150
00:11:52,892 --> 00:11:55,622
- Start over on what?
- I didn't bring a notebook.

151
00:11:55,695 --> 00:11:58,255
Can't you show a movie?

152
00:11:58,331 --> 00:12:00,424
Don't give me anything quaint.

153
00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:06,063
I don't want to see any
domesticated animals or greenery.

154
00:12:06,506 --> 00:12:10,340
I want anger. I want honesty.

155
00:12:12,512 --> 00:12:15,606
- I want nakedness.
- I'm right here, baby.

156
00:12:15,681 --> 00:12:20,516
- Excuse me. Can I say something?
- Nope. Write it down.

157
00:12:21,521 --> 00:12:24,957
Whatever you feel like saying
write it down instead.

158
00:12:25,024 --> 00:12:30,690
What you never told anyone.
What you never even told yourself.

159
00:12:32,632 --> 00:12:37,228
And don't fear exposure.
No one is to put his or her name down.

160
00:12:37,303 --> 00:12:41,205
- This will be completely anonymous.
- Just how I like sex.

161
00:12:41,274 --> 00:12:43,674
What about you?

162
00:12:43,743 --> 00:12:48,646
- I'm not in this class.
- You're not?

163
00:12:48,714 --> 00:12:51,512
Where are you?

164
00:12:51,584 --> 00:12:54,985
I mean, how can you say
you're not here.

165
00:12:55,054 --> 00:12:58,581
You're here. I see you.
Get out your notebook.

166
00:13:02,728 --> 00:13:05,788
I never wrote anything for the Lit.

167
00:13:05,865 --> 00:13:08,732
Then you have
an unfair advantage.

168
00:13:12,538 --> 00:13:16,065
Tell him about the toothpicks.
Tell him about the socks.

169
00:13:16,142 --> 00:13:21,011
He always wears
one white sock and one black sock.

170
00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,640
I've got to see the socks.

171
00:13:23,716 --> 00:13:27,846
Well, I read all your papers and...

172
00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,253
I'm beginning to see signs of life.

173
00:13:32,592 --> 00:13:36,084
Where do we go from here?
Good question.

174
00:13:38,598 --> 00:13:40,930
We go further.

175
00:15:06,185 --> 00:15:08,176
Okay. We'll start over here.

176
00:15:09,355 --> 00:15:12,051
- Just read it?
- Just read it.

177
00:15:12,124 --> 00:15:15,116
I can't read this person's writing.
Yes, read it anyway.

178
00:15:17,363 --> 00:15:21,129
In the fitting room,
price tags tickle my shoulder...

179
00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:25,000
as I slip on another dress.
I know this one will fit.

180
00:15:25,071 --> 00:15:28,632
This one will make me fly.

181
00:15:28,708 --> 00:15:32,872
Paint a picture. Just talk. Don't try
and make it sound like writing. Daryl.

182
00:15:33,012 --> 00:15:36,641
No one knows I come out here nights.
I look up, but you're never there.

183
00:15:36,716 --> 00:15:42,154
- Angela. He changed the socks.
- Shut up. I'm trying to listen.

184
00:15:42,221 --> 00:15:44,655
And I realize I'm not angry at you.
Things change.

185
00:15:44,724 --> 00:15:49,320
If you don't know what you're writing
about, no one else will. Yvette.

186
00:15:49,395 --> 00:15:51,625
When I'm a mother I'll get revenge.

187
00:15:51,697 --> 00:15:54,188
I'll ask questions
that miss the entire point.

188
00:15:54,267 --> 00:15:56,758
Forget grammar.
Forget spelling. Forget the rules.

189
00:15:56,836 --> 00:16:01,170
My father decides how much cars
were worth before they were totaled.

190
00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,708
I can forgive you,
but I want to kill your dog.

191
00:16:03,776 --> 00:16:07,212
Remember, it isn't just the emotion.
You have to shape the emotion.

192
00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,612
I'll smile when you want to kill me.

193
00:16:09,682 --> 00:16:12,014
I'll throw away your favorite skirt
and never admit it.

194
00:16:12,084 --> 00:16:16,521
If I drive his car off a bridge, what
would be the estimated damages?

195
00:16:16,589 --> 00:16:19,524
Notice he didn't simply
trash his father...

196
00:16:19,592 --> 00:16:22,254
he found an ingenious way
to trash him.

197
00:16:23,362 --> 00:16:27,059
This one has a title.
It's called A Fable.

198
00:16:29,302 --> 00:16:31,702
Once upon a time there lived a girl.

199
00:16:31,771 --> 00:16:37,368
She slept in a lovely little cottage
made of gingerbread and candy.

200
00:16:37,443 --> 00:16:40,537
She was always asleep.

201
00:16:40,613 --> 00:16:44,709
One morning she woke up,
and the candy had mold on it.

202
00:16:44,784 --> 00:16:48,379
Her father blew her a kiss
and the house fell down.

203
00:16:48,454 --> 00:16:51,287
She realized she was lost.

204
00:16:52,458 --> 00:16:55,552
She found herself
walking down a crowded street.

205
00:16:55,628 --> 00:17:00,065
But the people were made of paper.
Like paper dolls.

206
00:17:00,132 --> 00:17:04,796
She blew everyone a kiss goodbye
and watched as they blew away.

207
00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,103
- Why are you laughing?
- Because it doesn't make any sense.

208
00:17:11,177 --> 00:17:15,910
Yes, that's true. But it does better
then make sense.

209
00:17:15,981 --> 00:17:21,112
It makes you feel.
It makes you wonder.

210
00:17:24,824 --> 00:17:28,021
It wakes you up.

211
00:17:29,328 --> 00:17:32,991
Okay, has everyone read?

212
00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,763
Brian. Read.

213
00:17:37,837 --> 00:17:39,930
- I'm not going to read this.
- Just read.

214
00:17:40,005 --> 00:17:42,439
- Look, I really...
- Read it!

215
00:17:47,012 --> 00:17:51,278
It's called "Haiku for Him".

216
00:17:51,350 --> 00:17:55,753
He peels off my cloths like a
starving man would peel an orange.

217
00:18:00,526 --> 00:18:06,362
- His lips taste my juicy...
- Juicy.

218
00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,192
I refuse to read this.

219
00:18:20,713 --> 00:18:26,151
His lips taste my juicy sweetness.

220
00:18:26,218 --> 00:18:29,551
My legs tangle with his.

221
00:18:29,622 --> 00:18:34,491
We become one being.

222
00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:37,188
A burning furnace...

223
00:18:37,263 --> 00:18:42,599
in the cold cement basement of love.

224
00:18:45,838 --> 00:18:49,672
Hormones.
What would we do without them?

225
00:18:51,577 --> 00:18:54,910
Comments. Questions.

226
00:18:54,980 --> 00:18:58,746
Who wrote that?

227
00:18:58,818 --> 00:19:04,620
Is this a real haiku? Jordan.

228
00:19:04,690 --> 00:19:10,856
- I don't know.
- Find out. Look up haiku. Now.

229
00:19:10,930 --> 00:19:14,730
Yes, the ever popular Miss Graff.

230
00:19:17,036 --> 00:19:19,436
Just because it's not a real haiku...

231
00:19:19,505 --> 00:19:22,372
that doesn't mean you're not going
to print it in the paper right?

232
00:19:22,441 --> 00:19:29,040
Because it's real, I mean,
in the sense that it's true to life.

233
00:19:29,114 --> 00:19:33,517
- You're going to print that in the Lit?
- I don't see why not.

234
00:19:33,586 --> 00:19:36,350
All right, Vic.

235
00:19:36,422 --> 00:19:39,289
Get out of here.
Give me your work back.

236
00:19:39,358 --> 00:19:42,623
Gently. One at a time. One at a time.

237
00:19:42,695 --> 00:19:45,892
Don't screw them up.
Gently. Give me the work.

238
00:19:45,965 --> 00:19:48,297
Don't drop them on the floor.
Pick them up.

239
00:19:52,571 --> 00:19:58,134
- That was mine. Not the haiku thing.
- Yes, I know which one was yours.

240
00:19:58,210 --> 00:20:02,806
Jordan. Come here.
I'm not finished with you yet.

241
00:20:06,986 --> 00:20:11,480
What's that word?

242
00:20:11,557 --> 00:20:15,049
Don't look at the window.
What's the word?

243
00:20:18,163 --> 00:20:21,655
What's the sound? Okay.

244
00:20:22,968 --> 00:20:25,596
Finish the chapter and
the next ten poems tonight.

245
00:20:25,671 --> 00:20:27,935
What? Are you crazy?

246
00:20:28,007 --> 00:20:30,908
Yeah, good question.
Look, this is haiku poetry.

247
00:20:30,976 --> 00:20:33,774
Haiku poetry contains only
seventeen syllables per poem.

248
00:20:33,846 --> 00:20:37,680
That ain't a lot syllables.
Don't skip any. Get out of my sight.

249
00:20:45,157 --> 00:20:48,149
My daughter is in your class.

250
00:20:48,227 --> 00:20:51,628
I mean, in the class
that you're substituting for.

251
00:20:51,697 --> 00:20:54,962
My wife and I,
we run a small printing shop.

252
00:20:55,034 --> 00:21:00,495
Actually she runs it. I've come by
for the submissions for the Lit.

253
00:21:00,573 --> 00:21:05,169
Angela, forgot to mention that they
have to be at the shop by the morning.

254
00:21:06,779 --> 00:21:11,842
You know that kid that just left here?
That extremely smart kid.

255
00:21:11,917 --> 00:21:14,579
It seems nobody
ever bothered to notice...

256
00:21:14,653 --> 00:21:18,111
that he never quite learned
how to read.

257
00:21:18,190 --> 00:21:21,125
I mean, it pisses me off.

258
00:21:24,730 --> 00:21:27,221
Toothpick?

259
00:21:28,901 --> 00:21:32,337
We have to figure out
which one is Angela's.

260
00:21:32,404 --> 00:21:34,395
So what is this substitute person like?

261
00:21:34,473 --> 00:21:37,670
- Is Brian right? Is he mentally ill?
- Possibly.

262
00:21:37,743 --> 00:21:42,237
He didn't give me any Kool-Aid
to drink, or anything like that.

263
00:21:42,314 --> 00:21:45,181
No, actually, he's a pretty cool guy.

264
00:21:45,250 --> 00:21:48,242
Cool? Cool is not
what substitutes are.

265
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:53,155
Substitutes have hard to pronounce
last names and bad haircuts.

266
00:21:53,225 --> 00:21:56,092
- This substitute is cool.
- He's not a substitute.

267
00:21:56,161 --> 00:21:59,358
- Maybe he's a narc.
- Maybe you're a narc.

268
00:21:59,431 --> 00:22:02,025
You know what we need?
A sample of her handwriting.

269
00:22:02,101 --> 00:22:05,366
- Who are we? The KGB?
- God, these are weird.

270
00:22:05,437 --> 00:22:08,702
I don't know what was wrong
with the one about the oak tree.

271
00:22:08,774 --> 00:22:12,540
You don't think she wrote
the one where they kill the dog.

272
00:22:12,611 --> 00:22:16,103
- Mayday.
- Is that Angela's? Let me see.

273
00:22:17,349 --> 00:22:21,513
- Oh, my God.
- My juicy sweetness?

274
00:22:21,587 --> 00:22:25,546
It's the end of the world.

275
00:22:25,624 --> 00:22:28,457
No. No way.
I'm not going to print that.

276
00:22:28,527 --> 00:22:30,757
What happened to
freedom of expression?

277
00:22:30,829 --> 00:22:34,560
Screw it. Ill call this
substitute person and explain.

278
00:22:34,633 --> 00:22:37,227
Come on.
That doesn't belong in the Lit.

279
00:22:37,302 --> 00:22:40,738
In the cold cement basement of love.

280
00:22:44,743 --> 00:22:47,576
- You don't think.
- No.

281
00:22:47,646 --> 00:22:50,911
We don't even have a basement.
Let me see that again.

282
00:22:50,983 --> 00:22:54,146
Hey. Get your own.

283
00:23:02,695 --> 00:23:08,565
Mr. Racine? We spoke earlier.
I'm Angela's mother.

284
00:23:08,634 --> 00:23:12,434
- Yes, yes. Hi.
- Hi.

285
00:23:12,504 --> 00:23:16,406
- I met your husband the other day.
- Right.

286
00:23:16,475 --> 00:23:19,967
- What I wanted to talk about was...
- He's a lucky man.

287
00:23:22,848 --> 00:23:27,751
Thank you. My husband and I
read the stuff that the kids wrote.

288
00:23:27,820 --> 00:23:30,948
I hope it didn't give
him a heart attack.

289
00:23:32,524 --> 00:23:35,960
You know,
he seems a little fragile.

290
00:23:36,028 --> 00:23:39,122
Actually, it isn't my husband
who had the problem.

291
00:23:40,699 --> 00:23:41,757
Really.

292
00:23:41,834 --> 00:23:44,496
I just think that...

293
00:23:45,704 --> 00:23:49,470
There's this one piece in particular...

294
00:23:49,541 --> 00:23:54,308
that I just don't feel
comfortable printing.

295
00:23:54,379 --> 00:23:59,146
You are afraid that Angela wrote it.

296
00:23:59,218 --> 00:24:02,949
This has nothing to do with
whether Angela wrote it.

297
00:24:03,021 --> 00:24:06,115
So, this is just censorship
for censorship sake.

298
00:24:06,191 --> 00:24:08,489
- What?
- Okay. Hand them over.

299
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:13,862
No, I'll type them myself
and I'll have them Xeroxed.

300
00:24:13,932 --> 00:24:17,493
These are children. We are adults.
This is not censorship.

301
00:24:17,569 --> 00:24:22,905
This is guiding
adolescents who need...

302
00:24:22,975 --> 00:24:25,034
guidance.

303
00:24:25,110 --> 00:24:27,408
That was a very
reasonable opinion.

304
00:24:27,479 --> 00:24:30,846
And very clearly stated.
Unfortunately it is total manure.

305
00:24:30,916 --> 00:24:32,383
Excuse me?

306
00:24:32,451 --> 00:24:35,249
Its horse manure.
I sense you're angry. Are you angry?

307
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,254
- Yes.
- Yes, I sensed that.

308
00:24:37,322 --> 00:24:40,348
- Why is it manure?
- Good question.

309
00:24:40,425 --> 00:24:43,758
It is manure because this should be
about giving students a voice.

310
00:24:43,829 --> 00:24:47,356
Its not about having
their thoughts edited.

311
00:24:47,432 --> 00:24:49,923
If these kids aren't afraid
to put their hearts on the page...

312
00:24:50,002 --> 00:24:52,994
why should we be afraid of them?

313
00:24:54,173 --> 00:24:56,266
You should really teach full time.

314
00:24:56,341 --> 00:24:59,174
We have a difference of opinion. Fine.

315
00:25:01,346 --> 00:25:03,940
But do you think you should be
in the position of deciding...

316
00:25:04,016 --> 00:25:06,541
because you have
a printing press and I don't?

317
00:25:06,618 --> 00:25:10,714
- You expect me to answer that?
- Yes.

318
00:25:13,559 --> 00:25:18,394
- No. I don't.
- Neither do I.

319
00:25:23,969 --> 00:25:29,635
So. Did Angela write it?

320
00:26:51,723 --> 00:26:54,487
I want to see Mr. Racine
after the final bell.

321
00:26:54,559 --> 00:26:56,550
Yes, Mr. Foster.

322
00:26:58,030 --> 00:27:01,329
First of all, whoever wrote it
has zero self respect.

323
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,834
I know, I mean,
to do it in your basement.

324
00:27:03,902 --> 00:27:06,496
I know, my basement is so filthy.

325
00:27:06,571 --> 00:27:09,665
Plus, she has no self esteem
or she'd sign her name.

326
00:27:09,741 --> 00:27:15,680
He said not to sign it, okay?
He said it should be anonymous, okay?

327
00:27:15,747 --> 00:27:19,183
It was a rule
he made in class, okay?

328
00:27:19,251 --> 00:27:22,948
- Try your own conversation.
- Plus a muscle relaxer.

329
00:27:28,093 --> 00:27:31,688
You?

330
00:27:31,763 --> 00:27:34,527
So?

331
00:27:34,599 --> 00:27:39,036
You wrote that haiku poem? You?

332
00:27:39,104 --> 00:27:42,198
Yes. Will you shut up about it?

333
00:27:42,274 --> 00:27:46,210
You wrote it? And you don't want
people to know that you wrote it?

334
00:27:46,278 --> 00:27:51,272
No. I can't wait for people to find out.
I'm looking forward to it.

335
00:27:51,350 --> 00:27:55,878
Why are you even talking to me?
We have nothing to say to each other.

336
00:27:55,954 --> 00:28:02,951
Do you know how over my life will
be when people find out I wrote it?

337
00:28:03,028 --> 00:28:06,987
Do you know how over mines going
to be when they find out that I didn't?

338
00:28:09,134 --> 00:28:11,329
Really?

339
00:28:11,403 --> 00:28:16,568
You mean, people think you wrote it?

340
00:28:16,641 --> 00:28:20,236
Well, yes, I kind of
gave off that impression.

341
00:28:20,312 --> 00:28:25,079
So why can't we just
let them keep thinking that.

342
00:28:25,150 --> 00:28:27,482
- We could.
- Is this a trick or something?

343
00:28:27,552 --> 00:28:30,578
No, it's not a trick.
I want people to think I wrote it.

344
00:28:30,655 --> 00:28:33,590
I wish I had written it.

345
00:28:33,658 --> 00:28:39,324
I mean, how did you
write something that good?

346
00:28:40,499 --> 00:28:45,527
I don't know.
It just kind of came to me.

347
00:28:45,604 --> 00:28:48,801
My favorite part...

348
00:28:48,874 --> 00:28:52,970
is when they become the furnace.

349
00:28:53,045 --> 00:28:56,572
Rayanne, you would not...

350
00:28:56,648 --> 00:28:59,674
- Hi.
- Hi.

351
00:29:00,685 --> 00:29:04,917
You will not believe this.
You should hear this, too.

352
00:29:04,990 --> 00:29:08,949
- Spit it out.
- Foster has the Lit.

353
00:29:09,027 --> 00:29:12,087
Has it, like, every copy except a few
that people stole or something.

354
00:29:12,164 --> 00:29:17,727
He won't allow us to distribute it.
Because of your haiku thing.

355
00:29:20,906 --> 00:29:22,567
Really?

356
00:29:22,641 --> 00:29:25,974
So Vic says we have several options.
We could file a lawsuit...

357
00:29:26,044 --> 00:29:28,979
sue the school for denying
us our constitutional rights.

358
00:29:29,047 --> 00:29:31,641
Or we could stage a walk out.

359
00:29:31,716 --> 00:29:34,583
You would not believe
how many boxes of thin mints...

360
00:29:34,653 --> 00:29:36,644
Mrs. Casteo bought. Nine.

361
00:29:36,721 --> 00:29:39,189
Vic had the most amazing idea.

362
00:29:39,257 --> 00:29:42,249
We could stage a
make believe book burning.

363
00:29:42,327 --> 00:29:44,795
Because, you know,
Nazi's burned books.

364
00:29:44,863 --> 00:29:47,354
So, is that what Foster's saying?

365
00:29:47,432 --> 00:29:50,663
That a school should
burn books like Nazi's?

366
00:29:50,735 --> 00:29:55,434
Except that Mr. Foster hasn't
actually burned anything. Has he?

367
00:29:55,507 --> 00:30:00,342
Has he burned anything?
Good question.

368
00:30:00,412 --> 00:30:03,848
No, but it amounts to the same thing.

369
00:30:03,915 --> 00:30:08,181
Vic says that if somebody called a
news station and read them our poem...

370
00:30:08,253 --> 00:30:12,519
we'd have camera crews,
instantaneously, all over the school.

371
00:30:12,591 --> 00:30:15,059
- Is there anymore brisket?
- You call your teacher Vic?

372
00:30:15,127 --> 00:30:18,688
- You call him Vic?
- It's his name. And I...

373
00:30:18,763 --> 00:30:22,665
I know I've been talking
a lot about him, but he's...

374
00:30:24,669 --> 00:30:28,264
I just respect him, you know.
He's smart.

375
00:30:28,340 --> 00:30:34,245
He's an adult
I can look up to. Finally.

376
00:30:37,282 --> 00:30:40,376
- What?
- Nothing.

377
00:30:40,452 --> 00:30:44,650
Look, sweetie, don't get
carried away with this. Okay?

378
00:30:44,723 --> 00:30:47,351
I'm going to count my money again.

379
00:30:47,425 --> 00:30:51,384
I know how easy it is to get
caught up in these things. It's exciting.

380
00:30:51,463 --> 00:30:54,227
Exciting? It's not exciting.
It's important.

381
00:30:54,299 --> 00:30:59,168
What? You think I'm doing this
for excitement? For fun?

382
00:30:59,237 --> 00:31:00,226
Angela.

383
00:31:00,305 --> 00:31:05,140
The point is, we are concerned.
We're concerned about your future.

384
00:31:05,210 --> 00:31:07,542
We don't want you doing anything
that could get you into trouble.

385
00:31:07,612 --> 00:31:11,343
What about all those boring stories
I've had to sit through my whole life...

386
00:31:11,416 --> 00:31:13,850
about how committed
you were in the '60s?

387
00:31:13,919 --> 00:31:15,910
About how you believed in things.

388
00:31:15,987 --> 00:31:17,978
- We did.
- Right.

389
00:31:18,123 --> 00:31:20,648
Only now you're so terrified
of causing trouble...

390
00:31:20,725 --> 00:31:23,717
you can't even see
what it means to me.

391
00:31:32,270 --> 00:31:36,969
I say we go to Foster and we tell him
we want it. Technically...

392
00:31:37,042 --> 00:31:41,035
it's our property. It's our class work.
He has to give it to us.

393
00:31:41,112 --> 00:31:43,103
What did you hear? Where is he?

394
00:31:43,181 --> 00:31:45,615
People are saying everything.
That he was fired.

395
00:31:45,684 --> 00:31:48,949
That he was sleeping with a junior.
That he was thrown in jail.

396
00:31:49,020 --> 00:31:50,749
Which junior?

397
00:31:50,822 --> 00:31:53,518
Will everyone please take their seats.

398
00:32:01,199 --> 00:32:05,727
I've read the Liberty Lit and found
certain materials in it unacceptable.

399
00:32:05,804 --> 00:32:09,797
Those of you who have copies will
please bring it to administration.

400
00:32:09,874 --> 00:32:12,809
- Excuse me.
- Yes, the young lady right there.

401
00:32:12,877 --> 00:32:15,368
How can you say it's unacceptable
if nobody is allowed to see it?

402
00:32:15,447 --> 00:32:17,813
- Yes, what's wrong with it?
- Can I just say something?

403
00:32:17,882 --> 00:32:22,512
That's enough. I must hold
school authorized publications...

404
00:32:22,587 --> 00:32:24,578
to certain standards of decency.

405
00:32:24,656 --> 00:32:29,059
Anyone found distributing the
journal will be suspended from school.

406
00:32:29,127 --> 00:32:32,654
That's a promise. A new
substitute will be here in a minute...

407
00:32:32,731 --> 00:32:36,565
to work with you until we find a
permanent replacement. Is that clear?

408
00:32:36,635 --> 00:32:40,594
- Hey, It's Mr. Racine.
- People that's enough.

409
00:32:42,874 --> 00:32:45,434
Please remain in your seats.

410
00:32:45,510 --> 00:32:49,844
Mr. Racine. Mr. Racine!

411
00:32:49,914 --> 00:32:53,509
- Come on back! Don't leave us.
- Vic, where are going.

412
00:32:56,755 --> 00:32:58,746
Mr. Racine.

413
00:32:58,823 --> 00:33:03,590
There is nothing to see.
Kindly take your seats.

414
00:33:08,099 --> 00:33:12,035
All that crap about honesty and truth.
And he didn't even teach.

415
00:33:12,103 --> 00:33:14,469
- He did teach.
- What?

416
00:33:14,539 --> 00:33:18,270
He was the best teacher I ever had.

417
00:33:20,945 --> 00:33:23,277
Well, he was.

418
00:33:54,312 --> 00:33:56,872
Hey, Vic.

419
00:33:56,948 --> 00:34:01,544
We're upset, you know,
about what's been happening.

420
00:34:01,619 --> 00:34:05,817
- Vic, is it true? Are you fired?
- Yes, you could say that.

421
00:34:05,890 --> 00:34:10,088
I can't believe this. I can't believe
you were fired because of one poem.

422
00:34:10,161 --> 00:34:13,790
Why? You think injustice
like that doesn't happen?

423
00:34:13,865 --> 00:34:17,824
It happens every day. Wake up.

424
00:34:43,194 --> 00:34:45,788
Thank you for taking the time to...

425
00:34:45,864 --> 00:34:50,130
for taking the time.
Anyway, I'll make this brief.

426
00:34:50,201 --> 00:34:52,192
Let me see. You're daughter is...

427
00:34:52,270 --> 00:34:56,138
Angela. Angela Chase.
She's a sophomore.

428
00:34:56,207 --> 00:35:00,007
She had a substitute teacher
in English the past two weeks...

429
00:35:00,078 --> 00:35:04,515
who I met, actually,
and who actually seems kind of...

430
00:35:04,582 --> 00:35:07,483
Mr. Chase, there is no
reason to go any further.

431
00:35:07,552 --> 00:35:12,012
Mr. Racine is out, and will
no longer be substitute teaching at...

432
00:35:12,090 --> 00:35:15,082
Liberty in the foreseeable future.

433
00:35:20,565 --> 00:35:23,762
Look. I don't want to make trouble.

434
00:35:23,835 --> 00:35:29,102
But my daughter,
he got her thinking, you know?

435
00:35:29,174 --> 00:35:31,335
And questioning. Which is, I mean...

436
00:35:31,409 --> 00:35:33,934
isn't that what all of this
is suppose to be about?

437
00:35:34,012 --> 00:35:35,604
Mr. Chase...

438
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:40,743
She was really shaken up.
She believes you fired him.

439
00:35:40,819 --> 00:35:44,687
Well, that's fascinating.
Because I didn't.

440
00:35:44,756 --> 00:35:47,691
- You didn't fire him?
- Never had that particular pleasure.

441
00:35:47,759 --> 00:35:53,026
I was strongly considering it
mind you and then he quit.

442
00:35:53,097 --> 00:35:57,431
Right after I showed him this.
It's a copy of a subpoena...

443
00:35:57,502 --> 00:36:00,801
addressed to a Mr. Theodore
Victor aka Victor Racine...

444
00:36:00,872 --> 00:36:03,864
stating that the aforementioned
Mr. Racine must appear in a...

445
00:36:03,942 --> 00:36:07,036
New Hampshire court within 60 days
for failure to pay child support...

446
00:36:07,111 --> 00:36:12,447
to pay child support to a family
he deserted months ago...

447
00:36:12,517 --> 00:36:15,213
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

448
00:36:15,286 --> 00:36:18,653
He took one look at that
and walked out that door.

449
00:36:20,458 --> 00:36:22,858
He deserted his family.

450
00:36:26,130 --> 00:36:29,896
So, that's the story
of Mr. Victor Racine.

451
00:36:29,968 --> 00:36:33,870
Whatever his name is.
God, I wish I didn't know.

452
00:36:33,938 --> 00:36:39,899
I wish he hadn't told me.
Now, what do I do?

453
00:36:39,978 --> 00:36:43,311
You tell her the truth.
She can handle it.

454
00:36:45,483 --> 00:36:49,476
- I remembered to buy kitty litter.
- My hero.

455
00:36:53,324 --> 00:36:59,263
<i>It's so weird that teachers</i>
<i>actually live places. </i>

456
00:37:03,501 --> 00:37:06,436
I looked you up in the phone book.

457
00:37:06,504 --> 00:37:12,272
I couldn't believe you were just
right there. I'm sorry if that's not...

458
00:37:12,343 --> 00:37:15,335
- The right thing to do.
- What a waste of a Saturday.

459
00:37:18,349 --> 00:37:22,183
I heard you left your family.
Abandoned them.

460
00:37:24,856 --> 00:37:26,346
I see.

461
00:37:28,359 --> 00:37:31,021
Are you saying you didn't?
What's the truth?

462
00:37:31,095 --> 00:37:33,586
There are a couple of truths.

463
00:37:36,367 --> 00:37:40,235
One truth is I left my family.

464
00:37:40,305 --> 00:37:45,641
The other truth is my wife
is far better off without me.

465
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:53,146
Yes, I got out. I escaped.
I broke out of a prison...

466
00:37:53,217 --> 00:37:57,313
of my own making, and many, many
people want to punish me for that.

467
00:37:57,388 --> 00:38:00,653
Maybe, including you.

468
00:38:00,725 --> 00:38:04,661
I don't want to punish anyone.
I'm just... I'm trying to...

469
00:38:04,729 --> 00:38:10,998
To what? To understand?
Look. My struggle for freedom is mine.

470
00:38:11,069 --> 00:38:15,028
Get your own.
Get out before its too late, Amanda.

471
00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:19,175
Get out? Get out of what?

472
00:38:19,243 --> 00:38:22,906
That mind control factory.
That warehouse they store you in.

473
00:38:22,981 --> 00:38:26,178
Because they don't know
what else to do with you.

474
00:38:26,250 --> 00:38:28,741
You're telling me
to drop out of high school?

475
00:38:28,820 --> 00:38:33,951
Good question.
Yes. Run for your life.

476
00:38:34,025 --> 00:38:36,357
Save your life.

477
00:38:36,427 --> 00:38:42,559
Let the walls of your ginger bread
house come crashing down.

478
00:38:45,703 --> 00:38:47,796
Or not.

479
00:38:51,175 --> 00:38:52,972
It's Angela.

480
00:38:55,113 --> 00:38:58,048
And I have to say...

481
00:38:58,116 --> 00:39:01,108
I don't think leaving high school
is the answer.

482
00:39:03,955 --> 00:39:06,253
I don't think leaving anything is.

483
00:39:10,294 --> 00:39:12,125
The thing is...

484
00:39:14,632 --> 00:39:16,964
Is I kind of admired you.

485
00:39:23,975 --> 00:39:27,467
Come on. I'll drive you home.

486
00:39:50,668 --> 00:39:54,035
- What?
- Nothing.

487
00:39:54,105 --> 00:39:56,596
Is there anyone's car
you won't get into?

488
00:39:56,674 --> 00:39:59,609
Right. I live my life to annoy you.
You're my world.

489
00:39:59,677 --> 00:40:03,113
Shut up. I mean,
he's old. He's a teacher.

490
00:40:03,181 --> 00:40:05,615
What? You think I
did something with him?

491
00:40:05,683 --> 00:40:08,777
- I don't know. How do I know?
- Are you demented?

492
00:40:08,853 --> 00:40:11,185
Do you just view everything
in terms of sex?

493
00:40:11,255 --> 00:40:13,621
Not everything.

494
00:40:13,691 --> 00:40:16,626
I had things to say to him.
We talked.

495
00:40:16,694 --> 00:40:19,356
- He drove me home. God.
- Okay.

496
00:40:21,866 --> 00:40:24,357
I have a right not to like him.

497
00:40:26,370 --> 00:40:29,032
That's true. You do.

498
00:40:42,553 --> 00:40:46,045
- Are you okay?
- Pretty much.

499
00:40:59,904 --> 00:41:03,840
You know what this
really boils down to, sweetheart?

500
00:41:03,908 --> 00:41:08,174
Every fight is not worth fighting.
You're learning that...

501
00:41:08,246 --> 00:41:13,013
Exactly. It's just part of growing up.

502
00:41:13,084 --> 00:41:16,281
And sometimes
you have to compromise.

503
00:41:16,354 --> 00:41:21,348
Well, no one should have to
compromise their principles, but...

504
00:41:21,425 --> 00:41:23,859
if you never learned
to compromise at all, then...

505
00:41:23,928 --> 00:41:28,365
Exactly. Because compromise is...

506
00:41:28,432 --> 00:41:33,369
we all have to compromise.
It's part of life. It's a part of marriage.

507
00:41:33,437 --> 00:41:36,429
You're mother and I
compromise all the time.

508
00:41:36,507 --> 00:41:42,878
Exactly. And you can't win every fight.
You just have to pick your battles.

509
00:41:45,950 --> 00:41:49,386
I know. You're right.

510
00:41:49,453 --> 00:41:54,288
And the oak tree
looks down on us still.

511
00:41:54,358 --> 00:42:01,890
Beautiful. Concise. Excellent grammar.
Impeccable punctuation.

512
00:42:01,966 --> 00:42:06,403
It is a little difficult to read,
of course, with this foot print.

513
00:42:06,470 --> 00:42:11,601
It should probably be retyped. Still...

514
00:42:11,676 --> 00:42:18,081
I had her as a substitute once.
Vic was cool.

515
00:42:18,149 --> 00:42:19,639
Yes, he was.

516
00:42:19,717 --> 00:42:23,585
All in all an excellent
example of creative writing.

517
00:42:23,654 --> 00:42:29,422
Which one of you is Angela Chase?

518
00:42:29,493 --> 00:42:31,154
Angela Chase?

519
00:42:48,846 --> 00:42:52,282
Want a copy of
the Liberty Lit? It's free.

520
00:42:52,350 --> 00:42:56,878
Liberty Lit? Want a copy?
The Liberty Lit? It's free.

521
00:42:58,189 --> 00:43:01,818
- What?
- Nothing.

522
00:43:03,694 --> 00:43:06,356
I could take some of those
and hand them out upstairs.

523
00:43:06,430 --> 00:43:08,796
Why?

524
00:43:08,866 --> 00:43:12,666
Because I think you're right.

525
00:43:14,705 --> 00:43:18,539
I mean, I also think Vic
is a complete degenerate, but...

526
00:43:18,609 --> 00:43:21,635
- This is freedom of speech.
- You could get suspended.

527
00:43:21,712 --> 00:43:22,804
So.

528
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:24,507
Miss Chase. May I speak with you?

529
00:43:24,582 --> 00:43:26,709
- Want a copy of the Liberty Lit?
- Maybe later.

530
00:43:26,784 --> 00:43:31,187
Right now Mr. Foster
would like to see you in his office.

531
00:43:31,255 --> 00:43:33,314
She's just passing out something
that our English class wrote.

532
00:43:33,391 --> 00:43:34,824
Since when is that a crime?

533
00:43:34,892 --> 00:43:38,055
- Would you like to join her, Brian?
- I can go by myself.

534
00:43:45,236 --> 00:43:48,569
- Where are you suppose to be?
- Computer.

535
00:43:53,945 --> 00:43:57,642
- No. They called you?
- Of course they called us.

536
00:43:59,750 --> 00:44:03,277
I can see that you really took what we
talked about the other day to heart.

537
00:44:03,354 --> 00:44:05,254
I did.

538
00:44:05,323 --> 00:44:07,848
Do you know what this means?
This will go on your record.

539
00:44:07,925 --> 00:44:10,792
- I want it to go on my record.
- You want it to?

540
00:44:10,861 --> 00:44:13,853
Okay. Let's just stay calm.
We're in the principle's office here.

541
00:44:13,931 --> 00:44:17,128
What is the point of school
if you can't say what you're thinking?

542
00:44:17,201 --> 00:44:20,637
Do you have to be the personal
spokesperson for the entire school?

543
00:44:20,705 --> 00:44:25,540
You told me to pick my battles.
Well, this is it.

544
00:44:25,609 --> 00:44:30,376
And it may not be a war protest
or a civil rights demonstration...

545
00:44:30,448 --> 00:44:32,939
but it's all I've got.

546
00:44:34,285 --> 00:44:40,087
That's not completely true.
There are a couple of truths.

547
00:44:40,157 --> 00:44:43,888
You said I needed to
decide what to fight for.

548
00:44:43,961 --> 00:44:47,556
I decided. I just think
it's wrong to censor people...

549
00:44:47,631 --> 00:44:51,260
and I'm willing
to get suspended for it.

550
00:44:54,472 --> 00:44:57,464
Mr. And Mrs. Chase. Angela.

551
00:45:01,312 --> 00:45:06,716
Listen. Racine. What he did.
Walking out on his family.

552
00:45:06,784 --> 00:45:11,414
You know that can never happen in
our family. You know that, don't you?

553
00:45:11,489 --> 00:45:15,482
Graham. Of course she knows it.
Come on.

554
00:45:17,828 --> 00:45:20,820
Oh, God, I hate being
called to the principle.

555
00:45:26,604 --> 00:45:29,539
Angela, I believe I made it clear
to you and your classmates...

556
00:45:29,607 --> 00:45:33,543
that anyone caught distributing this
issue of the Lit would be suspended.

557
00:45:33,611 --> 00:45:36,102
- Do you remember hearing that?
- Yes.

558
00:45:36,180 --> 00:45:40,276
And yet not only did you distribute it,
you reproduced it using...

559
00:45:40,351 --> 00:45:42,979
school equipment and supplies.
Isn't that right?

560
00:45:43,054 --> 00:45:44,385
Yes.

561
00:45:44,455 --> 00:45:46,616
And while you were
suppose to be in English class.

562
00:45:46,690 --> 00:45:50,683
And I also cut Bio yesterday.

563
00:45:50,761 --> 00:45:54,322
Well. Is there anything you'd
like to say in your own defense?

564
00:45:54,398 --> 00:45:56,958
- No.
- Because I'm willing to listen.

565
00:45:57,034 --> 00:46:01,300
- If I may interject...
- Mom!

566
00:46:01,372 --> 00:46:05,138
There's nothing else I want to say.

567
00:46:05,209 --> 00:46:08,110
I see. Well...

568
00:46:20,057 --> 00:46:22,719
I'm not going to suspend you.

569
00:46:22,793 --> 00:46:28,390
I think Mr. Racine gave you kids very
distorted ideas about right and wrong.

570
00:46:28,499 --> 00:46:31,696
Angela, this obviously isn't you.

571
00:46:31,769 --> 00:46:38,004
I'm willing to forget about
this one isolated incident.

572
00:46:38,075 --> 00:46:40,236
It's over.

573
00:46:50,754 --> 00:46:54,690
<i>Once upon a time there lived a girl. </i>

574
00:46:54,758 --> 00:46:58,421
<i>She slept In a lovely cottage</i>
<i>made of gingerbread and candy. </i>

575
00:47:01,098 --> 00:47:05,034
<i>She was always asleep. </i>

576
00:47:05,102 --> 00:47:08,094
<i>One morning she woke up. </i>

577
00:47:14,678 --> 00:47:17,169
<i>She woke up. </i>

578
00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:02,000
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