"HIGH SCHOOL" "♪ Sitting in the morning sun ♪" "♪ I'll be sitting when the evening comes ♪" "♪ Watching the ships roll in ♪" "♪ And I'll watch them roll away again ♪" "♪ I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay ♪" "♪ Watching the tide roll away ♪" "♪ Sittin' on the dock of the bay ♪" "♪ Wasting time, yeah ♪" "♪ I left my home in Georgia ♪" "♪ Headed for the Frisco Bay, yeah ♪" "♪ Cause I have nothing to live for ♪" "♪ Look like nothing's gonna come my way ♪" "First thing we want to do is to give you the daily bulletin." "You'd be surprised: a little notice somewhere that you might think doesn't concern you might change your whole life, might decide on what college you'll go to, or might decide on what activity." "And then Joyce has a few things to say." "Right, Joyce?" "Alright." "The thought for the day:" "Life is cause and effect." "One creates his tomorrow at every moment by his motives, thoughts, and deeds of today." "And this question of cause and effect, you know, as I say, I might read something that might change your life." "Last time we met an existential philosopher." " Anoche conocimos a... - a un!" " A un filósofo existencialista." "Existencialista." "Who can pronounce this word?" "Existentialist?" "Carla?" "The man's name?" "Frances?" "No?" "Si, si, Sartre." "And his first name; but the man's name?" " Jean-Paul." " Very good." "Excellent, Roger." "And now, hmm?" "Jean-Paul Sartre." " Existentialist." " Existentialist." "This side of the class." "Existentialist." "Other half." "A philosopher." "An existentialist philosopher." "What do you mean you can't take gym?" "You get dressed in the morning?" " Yeah." " Do you get undressed?" " Well, you can get into a gym outfit." " I can't take..." "Yeah, I know." "Alright." "Well, you get into a gym outfit!" "We'll decide that." "I have a doctor's thing." " I am sick and tired of you talking." " My mother was in, though." "I spoke to your mother." "Now look." " I'm going to the doctor today." " Now look!" "You'd better be in a gym outfit." "You'd better be in a gym outfit." "We'll determine whether you take exercise or not." " I can't." " We'll determine that." "I can't take gym!" "I can hardly I'm not even allowed I'm not even supposed to come to school!" "Why don't you just stop?" "Hey, look!" "I'm going to tell you something." "Don't you talk and you just listen!" "You come prepared in a gym outfit when you go to gym." "Is that clear?" " Yeah." " Alright." "Now don't tell us you won't do anything." "No one's going to put you into an uncompromising position." " But you'll come dressed in a gym outfit." " I said I would." "You're suspended." "Go wait outside." " But I said I would!" " Go outside." "Ahhh, man." "I said I would." "You got a book out on the 5th of January." "Yes, but before eating, you have to." " Prepare the dinner." " Prepare the dinner." " Or prepare lunch." "Or prepare..." " Breakfast." "But in France it's different." "In America, we usually eat in the kitchen." "But in France, where does one eat breakfast?" "Lunch?" "Dinner?" "Where, generally, naturally there are exceptions." "But in France, where does one eat?" " In the dining room." " Exactly." "In the dining room." "In our homes, in America, it's different." "Instead, we eat in the kitchen." "Oh, naturally there are exceptions." "Naturally." "Usually in the kitchen." "Right?" "In France, no." "You prepare the meal in the kitchen, but you eat in the dining room." "No, no, no, no." "A flunking student." "No, no." "A flunking student." "Student couldn't receive such accolades as "Fabulous"." ""Fabulous." Now, that's all I'm saying!" "Sure, they're flunking I could see maybe a C student have a "Fabulous" here." "But a flunking student, "Fabulous"?" "Why don't you put it in reverse?" "Why didn't you say, why didn't you say that a student who can write fabulous papers shouldn't flunk?" "Shouldn't do things that would cause her to flunk?" "You see no, it depends on the language!" "You know, it's strange." "I've always found that a man who uses the word sympathy is never sympathetic." "Have you ever found that, Dr.Boodish?" "Tell the truth." " And I have no regrets." " Alright." " Nothing." " No regrets?" " None." " What do you mean?" "No." "All I want you to say, that at least I'm right about these few papers." "That's all." "What do you want me to tell you, that you are right about these papers?" "I want you to say that a girl who receives "Fabulous"" "and all these marks shouldn't flunk." "I can only say this: that the teacher in reading these papers thought they were fabulous, but that the total mark involves more than just those papers." "That's all I can tell you." "But I think this is a rather unique situation, wouldn't you say so?" "Rather unique?" " Well, would you be happy if I say it's unique?" " I'd be happy." "Alright, I'll say it:" "I would say it's somewhat unique." "Is it compassionate for a teacher to write "Fabulous?" Let me get back to this again." "And the girl figures she's doing well." ""Very Good, Rhona!" and especially this "Fabulous" and then, finally she gets her report card." "And the girl is stunned: it's another E." "Is it also fair for a girl and I think." "Mr. Schuster will concur this girl cause any trouble in her deportment?" "Is she wild?" "Talk a lot?" "No." "She did get a satisfactory mark in cooperation." "Why did she get an E the first time?" "It's completely against her character." " In behavior." " In behavior." "Why did she get an E the first time?" "Completely against her character." " An E!" " Yes, an E. In behavior." " What did she get in there?" " An E." "E is a grade; it's not a behavior mark." "Did she tell?" "What did she say?" "Uh, 4, 3; the lowest you can get, I imagine." "We cannot judge Rhona's marks based purely on this teacher's remarks on these papers." "This is all I'm saying." "Rhona, limited in many ways, knew world events and the world around her." "She knew the different forms of government, the different structures of types of government." "And here Rhona failed." "Because she failed in all these tests!" "We can only judge on the basis of performance." "You may have hidden talent in you, sir," " but if you don't perform it, we don't know." " True." "And the world will recognize you only by your performance." "That's true, that's true." "But if you want your daughter to be basically a well-adjusted, ultimately, I'll use the word happiness in a very broad sense, and I know that happiness is not the ultimate thing in life, but it's important." "You cannot impose preconceived values and dreams on an individual, including a child." "You cannot do that." "But again, I want you to understand that part of your job is to deal with Rhona as a sympathetic and understanding father but recognizing her limitations and the fact that she's a person in her own right and that if you impose too much your desires on her," "even without pushing them or forcing her, she may react in a way which may be damaging to her too." "Michael, this had to do with your cutting, what is it?" "Physical Science?" "No sir." "I never cut it." "Mrs. Ganin was yelling at me after class and she starts going off." "And you see, somehow I was making noise in the lunch line, and the truth is, Mr. Allen, I was behaving in the back of the room." "I didn't open my mouth 'cause see the other kids were, and I didn't feel like goofing off." "And she thought it was me." "And she calls me up and she starts yelling at me and I say It wasn't me and she starts yelling, yelling, wah wah!" "So I figure, Mr. Allen, could you stand there and listen to a lady yell?" "I figure I'd go out and talk to her later when she's calmed down." "And she was pretty worked up." "And I went to walk out and she goes, "You don't leave"." "And I go, "I'll speak to you later at a better time. " And I walked out." "First of all, Michael, you showed poor judgment." "When you're being addressed by someone older than you are or in a seat of authority, it's your job to respect and listen." "She didn't ask you to jump from the Empire State Building she's not asking you for your blood." "She's asking for a little bit of time, to help you out." "Now here's the thing: what you should have done is showed some character, by saying, "Okay." "I will go to your detention."" ""But may I speak with you and get this matter corrected?"" "She didn't assign a detention." " Well, according to this..." " No, they sent me..." "Given the choice of a detention at 7:30 or at 1:45 and you refused to take either." "Now what is it?" "They sent me down to Mr. Walsh and I tried to explain it to him and he started yelling at me too." "Well, no one is going to yell at you and" "I don't feel I have to take anybody's screaming at me for nothing." "No, well, there's a point to that, but in the meantime it's time you showed a little character on your own, right?" "I would take the detention and then you can come back and say." ""Now, I took the detention, may I speak with you?"" " I can't, I can't talk to that man." " Well, you can try." "Do you know, now another time in that class this is another reason why..." " This is another reason why I won't take it." " Why?" "I was given a these kids took a book and they were going to throw it at me, right?" "And the teacher caught a kid with the book in his hand and he took it off the other kid's book." "And the other kid stood up and says, "Give me my damn book back!"" "So Mrs. Ganin says, "You two get out!" You know" ""I don't want language around here and no use to get uproared."" "Do you know that they brought me into the detention room?" "They brought me into Mr. Walsh's room and they got me dragged in for nothing, and I tried to explain it to him and he says, "Will you take your detention?"" "Which was utterly ridiculous." " Now, see, we are out to establish something, aren't we?" " Yes!" "We're out to establish that you can be a man and that you can take orders." "We want to prove to them that you can take the orders." "But, Mr. Allen, you see, it's all against my principles, you have to stand for something!" "Yes." "But I think your principles aren't involved here." "I think it's a question now of, proving yourself to be a man." "It's a question here of how, how do we follow rules and regulations." "If there's a mistake made, there's an approach to it." "I think you don't fight with a teacher;" "I think you ask permission to talk." "And ask them to listen to you." "Now, this is what you didn't do." "Now if you take your detention and after all, they didn't require much from you." "The teacher felt you were out of order, and in her judgment you deserved a detention." "I don't see anything wrong with assigning you a detention." "Now I think you should prove yourself." "You should show that you can take the detention when given it." "I should prove that I'm a man and that's what I intend to do by doing what I feel, in my opinion, is what I am doing is right." "Are you going to take your detention or aren't you?" "I feel that you should." "I'll take it, but under protest." "Alright, then." "You take it under protest." "That's good." " Today?" " Yes, I'd like you to take it today." "Will today after school be okay?" " What room?" "Room One-twenty?" " One-eighteen." "What are you doing here?" "Going to the lunchroom." "Goodbye." "Where are you goin'?" " You got a pass?" " Yeah." "Do you have a pass?" "You got a pass?" "How about you?" "Hang up!" "Let's go." " It's for emergencies." " Let's get on the ball." "I told you to get off of there." "Let's go." "Excuse me, Mr. Murray, I'll see you tomorrow morning." "A man's yelling at me." "You get a pass." "Alright, alright." "Bye." "I had to call my insurance company." " Well, you get a pass." " But I have lunch now, I have lunch." "I was coming from my lunch." "Lunch means lunch." "It doesn't mean make phone calls." "You got a pass?" "Okay." "And when the dust had lifted and men saw what had occurred there was Jimmy safe at second, and Flynn a-huggin' third." "And from five thousand throats or more there rose there a lusty yell;" "it rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;" "it pounded on the mountain and recoiled upon the flat;" "for Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat." "There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place, there was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face." "And when responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat, no stranger in the crowd could doubt it was Casey at the bat." "Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt." "Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt." "Then, while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip, defiance flashed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip." "And now the leathercovered sphere came hurtling through the air, and Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there." "Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped." "That ain't my style, said Casey." "Strike one!" ", the umpire said." "From the benches black with people, there went up a muffled roar, like the beating of the storm waves on a stern and distant shore." "Kill him!" "Kill the umpire!" ", shouted someone on the stand, and it's likely they'd have killed him had not Casey raised his hand." "With a smile of Christian charity, great Casey's visage shone, he stilled the rising tumult, he bade the game go on." "He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the dun sphere flew, but Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, Strike two!" "Fraud!" ", cried the maddened thousands, and the echo answered Fraud!" "But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed." "They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain, and they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again." "The sneer has fled from Casey's lips, his teeth are clenched in hate." "He pounds, with cruel violence, his bat upon the plate." "And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, and now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow." "Oh, somewhere in this land of ours the sun is shining bright." "The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light." "And, somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout, but there is no joy in Mudville great Casey has struck out." "What's the problem with the baking soda?" "Did you use too much?" "You've got to taste the soda in it, right?" "An even more efficient way to use that knife is this." "See here." "If you pivot it from here you may cut yourself." "One part granulated sugar and one part brown sugar, right?" "Now you need another measuring cup." "You'll find one in the closet, right here." "And Gary, what about this brown sugar?" "How is he going to measure it?" " Packed." " Packed." "Absolutely right." " What's your number, doll?" " Eleven." "Eleven?" "Hurray!" "She sure is, isn't she?" "And isn't she a beauty." "Just look at that." "She is a vision for sure." "Let's have number 14, you may disappear." "Now, wait a minute, girls." "Wait a minute." "I think this is a good time hold it, it's a good time to talk about clothes." "A girl came into my class today in a culotte costume, and it looked just about you know, uh, it looked as sporty as this." "If it were on someone with slimmer legs, I think it might look good." "Could you find someone to model it Friday?" "With real thin legs, honey." "And girls, look, don't wear culottes to school because you're almost just like that." "Your legs are all too heavy for the stuff." "Don't wear it too short, it looks miserable." "I love you, goodbye." "Okay, next, let's see." "Now I think if this young lady she's got a leg problem too." "If she did something about those stockings she might well look better." "Could you get a matching pink or flesh-colored stocking for Friday?" "Yeah, something that fits in." "Salmon color pink." "Or white." "Or white." "Alright." "Would like to see you again on Friday." "What's your number, honey?" "Number 14, and you will take care of that?" "We're not even asking about it because I think she's got a pretty nice color here." "Looks good." "And it's the leg thing that makes it difficult." "Alright." "And let's see our last one, and I think that this young lady has done a lovely job of really putting some style into this particular garment." "Let's see how she looks." "She's done a nice job." "And this, this is a sample, girls, of what you can do." "This gal, she's got a weight problem;" "she knows it, and she's done everything she can to cut it down." "I mean, she designed this garment herself with the idea of making it gracious and graceful and she handles it well." "She handles herself beautifully," "See that?" "Okay." "And that's what you can do with fashion and design." "But these are the important things, girls: to walk with your shoulders high and proud." "And this is all the time." "Around Northeast High School this is the favorite walk." "And you've got, you just got to do something to conquer it." "You really must." "Handle yourself beautifully." "When you stop for a pause, as here, for a turn, put your foot back and pull your shoulders back." "I'm not in a hurry." "I'm not trying to hide in a corner." "I'm beautiful." "I have everything in control." "Alright?" "Mrs. C, are you going to have music playing?" "Yes, there will be music on Friday." "It's very short time on Friday." "And when you turn, this is the favorite, this is the favorite turn." "Kids." "Now watch it." "Watch it." "This is the way they go here." "You come along, see." "Now you're not here to show your derrière." "Therefore, if you are showing your backside on the stage at all, it's merely a quick turn in this fashion, and Miss Fisher did it, a kind of swing turn." "Alright?" "And watch these feet." "Don't ever end up with the feet like this." "If you want to test this, girls, if you want to test this, look down a long corridor." "Right across here sometimes from one end to another and watch the kids come up the hall." "And this is the way they come." "All you girls." "You see." "Whereas if you get your feet, you get your weight, right straight over your feet and walk, one almost in front of the other, you are doing something for yourself." "Okay?" "Course, I look like a fat lady." "But the point is that you look much more graceful, much more beautiful, if you don't do this." "Are there any questions?" "Any questions?" "Everyone ready?" "Anyone not ready?" "Begin." "Stop typing, please." "Alright." "As I read the paragraph from the book, let's follow on what we typed." "The two men went down with me, down the long road, comma, space, and in no time at all we had reached the lake and found the path up to the spring." "Period, double space, capital W." "We had made the hike in less than two hours." "Semicolon, space." "The day was fine for it, comma, space, mild and cool, comma, space, and the three of us felt fine." "Period." "New paragraph, indent five, capital We." "We had a snack at the spring and then picked up our guns and went on down the path." "Period, double space, Capital W." "We looked high and low for signs of game, comma, space, but the birds had seen us and screamed at us all the while, comma, space, so that what game there might have been near the lake" "hid from us or took to its heels." "Period, double space." "We called it a day and turned back home." "Period, double space." "Capital W." "We had not fired one shot." "Now there are various types of families." "We have the family, for instance, in which the dominant individual is the mother." "Now this is a natural sort of thing." "You can see in many of the natural habits of, let's say, the lower animals, the mother is designed with an eye first of all of taking care of the youngster before, before it is able to function on the outside." "And after the child or the offspring is born, she takes care of it." "Now in some cases, birds, some of the animals mate for life." "But frequently it's a sort of a seasonal thing, the father is finished his obligations maybe after he protects the female, and they may never see each other." "They don't talk much about women in the Bible, in the Old Testament." "Moses was the big shot, and the various other people that I'm not too well acquainted with." "Once in a while a woman gets in just by accident." "Now, that's not true in the modern Jewish family." "You know who runs your household pretty well." "Your mother collects the money; she takes care of the bills, pays them, she does the shopping, she handles all the economical sort of things." "Once in a while she is nice and asks your father if he would like to look at the new car they are going to buy, or if she is in difficulty with you she will have your father speak to you," "but ordinarily it tends to be that way in a great many of our families." "So that we go back to that matriarchal system." "She says why if a man and a woman live together does society then say they're married?" "I think that's great!" "Because society does have a way to take care of regular, responsible, stable unions." "I think promiscuity is what any society cannot tolerate." "That's a good point." "Why do you have your menstruation period?" "You know, there's not an awfully good reason for it." "One of the inventors of the birth control pill up in Boston, a very eminent gynecologist, has said that he doesn't, he can't think of any good reason why women have to continue to menstruate if they don't want to." "That with the use of the pill, which really regulates your cycle this is what the pill does:" "you take it for, say, twenty days, and then you don't take it for a few days." "You take it, you see, according to doctor's orders." "You don't just pop these things in your mouth an hour before a date." "It's a medicine." "It's a medicine that you take according to a prescription." "You must obtain it from a doctor and you take them just as you do any other medicine, regularly and continuously." "You have had practice in controlling your feelings and impulses ever since you have been a baby." "By the time you get to be a high school senior, you don't eat all the chocolate cake you want to because you don't want to get fat." "You do your homework whether you want to or not." "You take your college boards even if you don't feel like it that day." "You don't walk into Strawbridge's and steal dresses off the rack." "There is no better answer." "You have learned by now, as part of being human, that you can't have what you want when you want it." "The girls that haven't learned that and the boys are impulsive, and they never connect what they are doing today with what happens tomorrow." "Now if this becomes style five years from now, that's something else." "But right now for formal wear it is not style." "It's style for a very small percentage of people." "And we are going to do in this school what the majority wants." "Until this kind of rule changes, this is what we're going to do, the majority wants a formal affair, which means a long gown or cocktail length of gown." " The majority of students?" " That's right." " Excuse me." "What's the cocktail length?" " Knee length." "Here?" "The knee is not above the knee." " But that's my knee." " No, it isn't." "If you fell on that part of your anatomy you would not injure your upper thigh." "Not in a dress, anyway." "No, I think that it's nice to be individualistic, but there are certain places to be individualistic." " I didn't mean to be individualistic." " No, I'm not criticizing." "I say it's nice to be that way, but there are certain times to be that way." "Uh, I think you can be individualistic in your dress, but it doesn't have to be." "I happen to enjoy a short gown." "I didn't know it wouldn't be accepted to the prom." "I didn't do it purposely, this is what I enjoy." "Well, formal means dressy." "I didn't think of it as a gown." "Formal means more than dressy." "Formal is when you get an invitation for a formal affair it says white tie or black tie;" "it doesn't say that the girls or women wear any length they want." "It means a floor-length gown." "You get an invitation to a cocktail party, it doesn't mean a floor-length gown, it means a knee-length gown or a floor-length." "But formal means a long gown for a young lady, middle-aged lady, elderly lady." "See what I mean?" "And for a man it means a tux, and it's determined by the time of day whether it's white tie or black tie." "There's no question." "I don't know the other, really the whole story." "I didn't know they weren't permitted." "This is what I felt like wearing." "It's a matter of what you are going to do in a situation like this." "This is offensive to the whole class." "I didn't really mean it to be." "Well, I know you probably didn't mean it to be this, but this is what it is." "We bought an atmosphere by renting the Sheraton ballroom, which is very formal." " We could have had the dance in the gym and then..." " No, my, no, my." "Maybe a couple of go-go girls up on the stage with a fifty-dollar orchestra and we would have had a nice dance." "But this is not just a dance, this is the Senior Prom." "This is formal." "It's the one time in your life that your class looks so different that you don't recognize each other." "It's the first chance you have to be young ladies and young gentlemen." "I've had a boy ask and I've had a girl come up and say," "Can my boyfriend wear a dark suit because he cannot afford the money for the rental of a tux?" "I said, "No, he can't." Because then my husband has the right to wear the beautiful suit he just bought;" "but we have to pay what is it?" "Ten or fifteen dollars to rent a tux." "Now, my husband has nothing to do with the school, but he is honoring the youngsters by coming dressed properly." "And I wouldn't think of coming without wearing a tux;" "I rent one every year." "I have to wear a long gown." "I'd love to and I can't walk in it!" "I can't get into the car comfortably!" "5-6-7 8-9-40" "Oh, boy!" "We're feminine." "Let's go." "4-5-6-7 8-9-Tarzan!" "1-2-3-4 5-6-7-8-9" "Super Tarzan!" "1-2-3-4 5-6-7-8" "The dark fellow here is Paul Simon and the blond is Art Garfunkel." "The poet is Simon." "And if you felt that he's a poet now, wait till you hear some of his poetry." "And you'll notice on the board that I have some things that you are familiar with:" "images, setting, figurative language, thematic words." "And we'll be finding how, how he says what he does say." "What do they want to say about our lives, and how?" "And I think the best way to start is by looking at one of the best of the poems," ""The Dangling Conversation." That's the first one on your sheet." "The process we'll use: first, we will read the poem, then listen to it." "Then we'll talk about it and see how all the various poetic devices reinforce the theme, and see what you think about it, and then we'll listen to it once again, and I bet it means something a little bit more to you." "It's a still life water color, Of a now late afternoon," "As the sun shines through the curtained lace." "And shadows wash the room." "And we sit and drink our coffee." "Couched in our indifference, Like shells upon the shore." "You can hear the ocean roar." "In the dangling conversation And the superficial sighs," "The borders of our lives." "And you read your Emily Dickinson, And I my Robert Frost," "And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we've lost." "Like a poem poorly written We are verses out of rhythm," "Couplets out of rhyme, In syncopated time." "And the dangled conversation And the superficial sighs," "Are the borders of our lives." "Yes, we speak of things that matter, With words that must be said," ""Can analysis be worthwhile?"" ""Is the theater really dead?"" "And how the room is softly faded And I only kiss your shadow," "I cannot feel your hand," "You're a stranger now unto me." "Lost in the dangling conversation." "And the superficial sighs," "In the borders of our lives." "And notice how not only the devices reinforce the theme but also the very rhythms, the melodies, and how they use their timing." "Now, when I taped these, they were from monaural and stereo records and the tape is a little fast;" "it's the Drama Club's tape recorder, so you have to be a little patient at the very beginning." "It's a still life water color," "Of a now late afternoon," "As the sun shines through the curtained lace." "And shadows wash the room." "And we sit and drink our coffee." "Couched in our indifference, Like shells upon the shore." "You can hear the ocean roar." "In the dangling conversation." "And the superficial sighs," "The borders of our lives." "And you read your Emily Dickinson," "And I my Robert Frost," "And we note our place with bookmarkers." "That measure what we've lost." "Like a poem poorly written." "We are verses out of rhythm," "Couplets out of rhyme," "In syncopated time." "And the dangled conversation." "And the superficial sighs," "Are the borders of our lives." "Yes, we speak of things that matter," "With words that must be said," ""Can analysis be worthwhile?"" ""Is the theater really dead?"" "Hey, you!" "Turn around, pal." " Sir." " Don't "sir" me." "Don't feed me that "sir" business." "You punched this guy in the mouth." "On what basis?" "Sir, sir, he started mouthing off, and then he started laughing," "Yeah, that doesn't give you a right to hit him." "If he was a six-foot-two, two-hundred-and-fifteen-pound fullback, you wouldn't be so quick to punch him in the mouth." " P-E-R-G..." " O-L-I-N-O." "Where do you come in to hit this guy?" "He has a right to erase the board." "That's not what it was over." "Just as much as you have the right to write on it." "You didn't have permission to write those names on the board, did you?" " Pardon me, sir, but that wasn't what it was over." " What was it over?" "Sir, just before class started, you know, we had an argument and" "I didn't do nothing." "Well, you're not supposed to do anything." "You don't strike or hit anybody!" "Levine wears glasses on top of it, yet you still hit him." "Sir, I wear glasses, too." "That's why you're going to be suspended, for throwing the first punch," " Yes, sir." " Don't give me that "yes, sir" business!" "I don't like the "sir" business." "You know why?" "Because there's no sincereness behind it." "And, how about the poor, poor teacher." "Whoever it was?" "I don't know." "I don't know what it is she said that we did but being inhuman to another human being." "That's what it amounts to." "But all I know is that she got Sue in a lot of trouble." " Sue who?" " The other girl." "And, and I don't think Sue had any." "She told, she said that we locked her in the closet." " I mean..." " You mean Sue and you?" "I mean the class." "Nobody locked her in the closet as far as I know." "Look, I would've." "If she had been locked in the closet I sure would've heard that and turned around and looked." "She may have had a little more control than that." "That much noise, it's a little embarrassing to her." "She wasn't going to call everybody's attention to it." "It wasn't fair!" "Like, Sue was just messing around, just as much as us." "The rest of the classroom and now Sue's in so much trouble just because of that one teacher;" "and because Sue got in trouble I blame a lot on that teacher 'cause." "Now, let's keep looking at that because again this is my concern, Eileen." "Sue got in trouble because of the teacher." "Sue did nothing to help?" "Whoever Sue is, I don't know." "I'm glad you didn't answer me when I asked her name because it's easier to talk." "Just messing around like everybody else." "Can you tell me what messing around means?" "This is what I've been trying to find out for months." "Every time you would say "messing around", what does it actually consist of?" "I don't know." "Everyone talking, laughing." "But just plain talking and laughing isn't offensive." "Oh, we were catching a book or something." " Oh, you threw a book around." " Not just me!" "But whoever was involved." "I know I did a lot." "I did a lot." "I talked back a lot." " Did you talk back to the teacher?" " Yeah." "And this is what you call "messing around."" "Isn't it more disrespectful?" "What I did, was disrespectful." "What the rest... what everybody else did was messing around." "I don't know." "You see what Mother is saying, at least what I'm saying," "I think what your mother is saying is that we hope, Eileen, that you don't set your standards by the so-called everybody else, but you set your own standards by what you know is the thing to do." "I repeat, there's no doubt the teacher was not holding the class, was not doing the job that you, you think she should have done, from what you say." "I'll accept that." "But, you know, who breaks the circle when things go around and around and around?" "Someone has to be mature enough to move out of the circle and into the straight, right?" "Someone has got to break away from it." "You're intelligent, you're mature, you have the background." "You can be the one who can do it." "Why don't you offer the positive kind of leadership that you can." "That you know you have, that I know you have, that Mother knows you have." "You can be a real force in any group, Eileen." "Can't you?" "The kids rally around you a bit." "Well, not really." "I've seen you in the lunchroom." " Oh, Eileen can." " Your daughter is a potential leader." "It shows wherever she is." "I've seen her once in a while in a group." "You can see who the leader is in a group." "And she has it." "Eileen has a very set mind and if she decides that something should be done, this is what she pursues." " This I know about her." " I think that's good." "I think it's excellent in many ways." "But I've often said to her, "Eileen, use your determination for right."" ""And as long as you do, you will be all right."" "And one thing, this is the one thing that bothers me so much, the main thing in our home has always been respect for an adult." "I was brought up that way;" "my husband was." "And we've been trying to teach our children the same thing." "To me, I think one of the worst offenses is being disrespectful to an older person." "Irregardless of what the condition may be." "You can say the same thing in a pleasant manner that you can in an offensive way." "And this is one thing that's disturbed me recently about Eileen." "That even at home, now, she I don't say that the language that she uses is wrong, but it's the manner that a sentence is brought forth." "And I told her, "Eventually, Eileen, this is going to hurt you outside."" "And finally it has." "And I think that you would kind of have to decide, Arlene, how you would feel about where you stood in your college class." "Whether you would rather be in an easier school and toward the top of the class or in a harder school and toward the bottom of the class." "I think I would gain more by being like in the middle or the top than at the very bottom, not being able, you know, to keep up with everybody else." "Do you want a college course, then, dear, where at the end of four years you would be finished with your education and able to go out and make a living, or do you want the kind of course" "where at the end of four years it is likely that you would be going on with your education?" "I'm not sure right now." "I think I want to go on to four years of college and, maybe if I become a teacher, stop and then I can always take courses again." "Go higher." "Get a higher degree." "Or, I think, uh, a social worker or psychologist has to go five years." "Or six years, or seven years." "It would depend on what you chose after that." "I don't think I want to go for more than maybe 5 or 6 years, or more than 5." "Well, I think you've given me kind of a pretty comprehensive idea of what you're looking for." "And then I would have to ask you, sir, the hard, hard question of how much you could contribute to your daughter's education?" "Well, uh, that's a hard question to say because if she lives away from home, then it's a different story altogether." "And if she's at home, it's another story." "But the way she's talking, she doesn't want to stay home." "So I would say, about maybe about a thousand dollars, fifteen hundred is about the best I could give her a year to go away to college." "Then it would seem to me that, Arlene, that the most realistic way to plan it would be to think about where you could go if your father could give you a thousand dollars to fifteen hundred dollars," "and then to try for scholarships at some other places that might be somewhat more expensive." "But I think you kind of have to plan for where you would go if you didn't get any financial aid from someone." "I mean, you always have to you can look at the brighter side about where you would like to go." "You can have all your dream schools but then at the bottom you ought to have some college of last resort where you could be sure that you would go" "if none of your dreams came true." "Rhona is the recipient of a ten-thousand-dollar Hero Scholarship to any college anywhere in the country she wants to go." "I guess, I'm not saying she is college material, but at least she can have some type of education following." "She can go to any college and do whatever she wanted to." "Tell me again." "Do you think you want to go to college?" " Yes." " Do you think?" "What courses?" "You're lying to the man, now!" "Now talk, you don't want to go to college!" "Well, I do!" "But not the kind of college that you want me to." "What kind of college do you want to go to?" "I want to be a cosmetician." " Well, that's not a college, is it?" " Well, it's a beauty culture school." "It's a beauty culture school." "It's not a college." " The requirements for that are different than for college." " Yes." " You don't have any foreign language." " No." "You don't have any algebra;" "you don't have geometry." "So that actually, as far as going to college, you're not even prepared to go to college." "Do you feel that you are disappointing your parents by not going to college?" " Now, tell me the truth." " Yes." " You feel your parents are disappointed?" " My father." "Your father is." "Tell me, would you feel better if you knew your father really accepted the fact that you didn't go to college?" "Do you feel a bit guilty for not, for not going to college?" "You say." " Well." " That you're disappointing your parents?" "I'm disappointing my father, but." "I don't think I feel guilty about not going." "You don't feel guilty at all." " Not guilty because..." "It's my life." " It's your life." "I feel that what I want to be is more important than what he desires me to be." "But you know your parents are disappointed?" "Your father in particular." "You can't undo the past." "Even if somebody has made a mistake and been wrong and unfair, you can't undo the past." "The only thing that you can do is try to do better in the present so that the future will be better." "So what I'm suggesting to you: work as hard as you can, do the best you can, and confer with Mr. Schuster about this and let's see what happens by the end of the semester." "Okay?" "You go back to class now, or are you through?" " Thanks again, Dr. Boodish." " You're welcome." " Thank you very much." " You're welcome and goodbye." "Oh, incidentally, how about gym?" "This is the strongest girl in the school." " What are you going to do to pass gym?" " Well, I have to do my makeups." "And that's necessary for graduation, you know." " It is?" " It is." "She has to pass." "I just wish, Dr. Boodish, she was as smart as she is strong." " Alright, thank you, Doctor." " Very strong girl." "Tell me." "I'm going to ask your daughter a question." "How did you feel about that remark that your father just made?" " I liked it." " You liked it?" "Yeah." "Good." "Okay." "There is a car in the students' driveway, blocking the exit of two other cars." " I don't believe in giving." " Give them jobs." "I don't believe in giving;" "let them earn it." "I think people have got there's too much relief going on, that's all." "We are too much to a point where they are giving all the time." "You're all hung up, you're all hung up on the Protestant ethic." "There are so many facets to this." "I don't believe in what Bill says." "I don't believe 100% in what Bill says." "No, I can't think about giving things away." "I don't think anybody appreciates anything." "Look at your own children." "When you give 'em, do they really appreciate it?" "Sometimes if they work for it a little bit, Bill, they appreciate these things more." "Look at this money that we are giving away to the world foreign aid." "They're laughing at us." "They're cramming it right down your throat." "Actually, that foreign aid business we're really giving money to the guys that are buying from the rich people and from the manufacturers over here." "That's where the money's going." "It's not just being given to them;" "it's going the other way." "But the thing is, there is so much money being wasted." "Yes." "W. H. Silvers." "Now what was he trying to do?" "What was his purpose?" "Yes, Adele?" "He was trying to establish an eight-hour workday [inaudible]." "Yes, he wanted higher wages;" "he wanted an eight-hour workday, but he tried to unite, this is the important thing about him." "He tried to unite all labor unions of the country into a federation membership." "What on the horizon or what existed that forced labor to turn to collective bargaining?" "What was there a lack of?" "Communication." "Yes, communication." "Lack of security, concern for the job." "The important thing is this:" "let's get to the beginnings first of all, there was the lack of security." "Second of all, there was a lack of communication the attitude of the employees or of the employers toward the employees, with regard to working conditions, with regard to living conditions, with regard to wages very little communication." "Alright, we have evidently a great imbalance in American society." "We have, on the one hand, we have an affluent society and that's one America and on the other hand we have another America and by the way, that's the name of a good book by Michael Harrington, called The Other America." "And what is this other America?" "Another America that's not America of poverty." "America that's not sharing in the affluence of American society." "And King was there to try to uplift this other America." "You know what the Department of Labor says should be the comfort level of a family of four a man, a wife, and two children?" "What they should earn to be comfortable." "Not moderately comfortable, not, you know, affluent, but just moderately comfortable in our society." "Know what the figure is, any idea what it is?" "Christine?" " How much?" " 9000." "Yes, a little over 9000$." "So you can imagine." "Do you know what percent of the American population earns over 9000$?" "It's not the majority." "Let's determine some of the attitudes in this class and see how we come out." "Alright, how many of you would be a member of a club where a minority of the members of the club were Negro?" "How many would accept that situation?" "You would be a member of a club if the minority of the members were Negro?" "Alright." "Okay, fine, put your hands down." "How many would not be a member of a club?" "Alright." "How many would be a member of the club where half the members were Negro members, the other half were white?" "Alright." "Put your hands down." "And how many would not be a member of that, that club?" "Don't... remember there's no right or wrong answer;" "it just, I'm just trying to determine what attitudes are." "Cause Northeast is such a cloistered and secluded place." "The policy at Northeast is to avoid conflict." "Oh, there are good points, Mark but can't you find anything good about this school?" "It's got lots of room, except not for as many kids as are in it." "It's very nice, well ventilated." "I can't say anything about the people who go to it, though, really." "With very few exceptions." "And most of the people I have, I can make those exceptions about are right in this room, with maybe five or six exceptions." "And the rest of the school stinks, in my estimation." "You know, I'm not qualified to make, you know, gigantic judgments about the school, but I think in its attitude toward education and its relations with the world today this school is miserable." "It's cloistered, it's secluded, it's completely sheltered from everything that's going on in the world." "And I think it's wrong and has to be changed and I think that's our purpose here." "And not to talk about films." "A lot of you are so negative that I can see someday somebody coming up and saying," "You know, you kids just don't belong." "You spoil Northeast." "Northeast High would be nice." "That's just what happened!" "Mr. Simon pulled me in to his office and said," "You don't look like a Northeaster, son." "Second I think one thing that has to be changed around is the fact that you have these, see like, you have these variables existing within the school system in Northeast." "And the thing about it that makes it so alien or, or fails toward us is the fact that you have to, like, conform to these ideas which people like Mr. Simon, Dr. Allen." "Alright, he's got problems." "Second I would also like to say that" "I would like to say that he is in a position where maybe you'll find others who are not of the same opinion." "The only difference is that he has a job as vice principal that is in contact with the students." "He handles student activities." "Now, I'm not saying that Mr. Simon is the only one that says these things." "The rule, the rule is, is very I think you'll agree consistent among many members of the faculty." "And don't just pinpoint Mr. Simon." "He may be right, he may be wrong, but he's the one voicing it all the time." "But he's voicing it, a quite common feeling." "Well, I'll say something good about the school." "I'll say that scientifically and technologically." "Northeast is an advanced school apart from other high schools." "A compliment!" "I'm going to faint." "Apart from other high schools in the country, possibly, possibly in the world also." "This school in those, in that particular field, is the leader." "As Mark has said, morally, socially, this school is a garbage can." "Let's face the facts." "Morally?" "Completely?" "Yes." "Well, I venture to say that the moral problems you have here in general are in existence in most schools." " You see, the trouble is..." " Perhaps more so." "I don't think it's that bad." "Now, boys and girls, we have a very new plaque out in the hall, if you've noticed, outside the main office, framed, which has a special thought for the day, written to attract your attention." "Now I think it's very fine." "But, as always, we have on our bulletin another thought for the day, and this one, especially in my field, is very important, but in any kind of research to have the right words for what you have to say in these days," "to express things so that people do not misunderstand you." "The dictionary is the only place where 'success' comes before 'work'." "For the tenth and eleventh-grade boys who signed up for Food Experiences for Boys, you must go to room 130 this week to verify your registration." "The Spectator Club will discuss Martin Luther King's assassination today at 3:15 in Room Two-twenty-eight." "Northeast Mambo!" "Olé!" "Olé!" "And in general, the more a fellow gets into bed with more different girls, the more insecure he is." "And this shows up actually later, in all the divorce statistics and in the marriage statistics." "The more intercourse either a boy or a girl has had prior to marriage, the less likely they are to make successful marriage partners, husbands, wives, and the greater in other words, you can graph it right on a graph," "the more girls a fellow's gotten into bed with or vice versa, the higher the divorce rate, the greater the sexual inadequacy, and the failure of compatibility." "As with anything else, the real pros in the field keep it to themselves and aren't profligate." ""Is it possible to impregnate a girl by rubbing the surface of the vagina? "" "With what?" "Your nose?" "This brings up one other good point." "This brings up one other darn good point." "Virginity is a state of mind." "By that, I have seen several girls who have been physiologically, or by physical examination, virgins;" "the hymen, the mucous membrane covering the so-called, the cherry it's called the cherry because it produces red fluid when it's busted" "is intact." "I have seen girls whose hymens were so small that I couldn't pass a finger through them." "In fact, I once saw a girl" "I happen to be a gynecologist and get paid to do it." "I once saw a girl who had rickets when she was a baby, whose bony structure was so deformed that I could get my finger in this way but not broad ways her bony structure down there who had succeeded in becoming pregnant." "Sperm happen to be very actively motile." "They have a good ability to move on their own." "And many a girl has become pregnant through spray." "If you are not prepared to handle the responsibility of that girl's becoming pregnant or having a baby, you've got two choices:" "one, make sure there's adequate protection to prevent having a baby;" "two, if there isn't, don't." "Because you are just as much responsible, if not a little bit more, than the girl if a pregnancy ensues." "Nature sets us up that the male is the aggressor" "and the female is the passive in this set of circumstances." "It takes a girl longer to get sexually aroused than it does a boy." "This is the nature of the beast." "We can get a better idea of the relationship of the fallopian tubes and ovaries if we view them from the front." "Under normal conditions an ovum matures in the ovary, then passes down the fallopian tube on its way to the uterus." "When gonorrhea spreads upward, the infection can cause damage, which blocks the fallopian tubes, sometimes causing severe complications." "As in a boy, untreated gonorrhea can make a girl sterile, unable to become a mother." "However, a girl with gonorrhea can become a mother;" "but this creates another problem." "When the baby is ready to be born, there is danger that she may transmit the disease to the child when it passes out of her body." "You didn't get hit, eh?" "Good." "Glad to see you." "You have to go back?" " When do you get out?" " First of September." "That's terrific." "September?" "Oh!" "September sixty... 69." "You remember Halsie?" " Is Halsie back?" " He came back." "He was wounded." " I heard that." "I didn't see him." " Pepe was wounded also." "Saw a lot of guys Pepe got hurt, he was really." "Pepe was shot up pretty bad." "Pepe was a guy I guess about five yards from one of them mines in one of those little holes they dig, and they popped up with an automatic rifle on him, opened up." "Really got him in the foot, pretty bad." "And he turned around and he killed the guy, but he's done for soccer or anything like that forever." "He can never play that again." "Yeah." "He was a good soccer player." "He's through with that." "And first they thought they might have to amputate." "But he was down the naval hospital for quite a long time, and then he came up with a cast and crutches, and then he came up with a cane, and the next time I saw him, this last time I saw him, he was walking pretty well," "but he'll never be able to hit with that foot or anything 'cause they're rebuilding it." "He was pretty..." "When he first came back, he was pretty melancholy, like, you know?" "And naturally so." "But I think he's got himself adjusted now." "He seems to be alright," "I'm glad to say." "I'm glad you didn't get hit." "I've got it!" "You're almost there!" "Jan, you have nineteen seconds, Jan." "18-17-16-15 14-13-12-11" "10-9-8-7-6 5-4-3-2-1." "That's it." "You've landed." "Cherry, disconnect audio, please." " Is the hatch clear?" " The hatch is clear, yeah." " Alright." " Okay." " I've got something for you, man." " Thanks." " Good going." " Hello, Dr.Haller!" " How do you feel?" " Great!" "Do you?" "Oh." "Terrific." "You made it!" "We're so proud of you." " He's got the strength of a bull." " Mr. Gordon!" "Good seeing you again." "Jan, you look really good." "You look grizzly, Jan, real grizzly." "Mr. Montgomery, hug all three of them now." "I'm going to help get, I'm gonna just start getting this thing off him, okay?" "Look at that beard, man!" "The beard." "The beard." "I'll talk to you later." " Good job!" " Thanks a lot." "Scott!" "Good job." "We received a telegram this morning and I want to read it at this time." "Students and faculty of Northeast High School," "Attention Robert Montgomery." "I should like to take this opportunity to extend my best wishes to each of you for your continued success with Project SPARC." "Specifically, my heartiest congratulations to astronauts Jan Gabin, Harvey Rubin, and Scott Cherry, upon completion of 193 hours of simulated flight." "The telegram comes from L. Gordon Cooper, NASA, Astronaut." "This is man Number One, Number Two, Number Three." "Drums!" "Roll 'em." "Now, let me read you this one, if I'm able to get through it." "This is written from, and I might say that the letter that I'm about to read is from Bob Walters." "Bob Walters, as Fran could tell you, she could write his biography, was a boy without parents" "who might have been a nobody." "He certainly was not a high academic student;" "he was most average or subaverage in many ways." "But a few teachers who cared made a great difference in this boy's life." "His letter comes on stationery marked USS Okinawa." "I hope I can get through it, if I don't, Hy, you'll have to go on." "Dear Dr. Haller," "I have only a few hours before I go." "Today I will take a plane trip from this ship." "I pray that I'll make it back." "But it is all in God's hands now." "You see, I am going with three other men." "We are going to be dropped behind the DMZ, the Demilitarized Zone." "The reason for telling you this is that all my insurance money will be given for that scholarship" "I once started but never finished if I don't make it back." "I am only insured for $10,000." "Maybe it could help someone." "I have been trying to become a Big Brother in Vietnam, but it is very hard to do." "I have to write back and forth to San Diego, California, and that takes time." "I only hope that I am good enough to become one." "God only knows." "I really pray that the young men in your cooking classes will use this change of learning very well." "Thank you, Dr. Haller, for helping these men become good, very fine cooks." "He should have said "Thank you, Mrs. C"." "My personal family usually doesn't understand me." "They don't see, they don't understand why I have to do what I do do." "They say that I'm a real nut to do such work," "but thus they say: 'Don't you value life?" "Are you crazy?" "'." "My answer is:" "Yes." "But I value all the lives of South Vietnam and the free world so that they and all of us can live in peace." "Am I wrong, Dr. Haller?" "If I do my best all the time and believe in what I do, believe that what I do is right, that is all I can do." "Dr. Haller, if anything happens to me," "James C. Heckwicker" " I think it is - will send you a telegram and in time he will send you the money." "Please don't say anything to Mrs. C but I did she would only worry over me." "I am not worth it." "I am only a body doing a job." "In closing, I thank everyone for what they all have done for me." "Yours truly, Bob Walters." "Thank you all again very much." "Please forgive my handwriting." "I am a little jumpy." "Please understand." "Now when you get a letter like this, to me it means that we are very successful at Northeast High School." "I think you will agree with me." "Subtitles: tadanobu@KG." "Subtitles made with the help of Spanish subs and English transcription."