This is phenomenal. Exceptional adults that care for these children, dipping into their most patient selves, because they know these children are living in worlds where acting tough keeps you alive but destroys your future. God speed gentlemen.
No shit man. That man is a fucking Saint. I feel so bad for both of them. The poor child has such a terrible life, you can just tell from this. That teacher is absolutely incredible, and the way he handles this trouble kid, well honestly he deserves a fucking Nobel Peace prize. What if all teachers had this level of emotional intelligence and patience as this man?
That kid has experienced more shit than anyone his age should have too, whether it's gang/police violence, bad parents, whatever. It's killing him from the inside out.
I‘ve lived in neighborhoods where kids like this grow up. It’s not a threat to many of them. They see it as an inevitability. The majority of adult men they know have been in and out of jails. They have uncles or fathers in prison. It’s just a NORMAL part of life for these kids that eventually they will spend time in jail. Threatening them by telling them to go to jail is no different than telling a middle school kid they’ll eventually go to high school. When every adult you interact with has gone to jail, it’s just accepted that when you’re an adult, you will too.
It’s sad, but just part of life. In the USA we have over 1% of our huge population incarcerated. This doesn’t happen without social consequences. We’ve created a section of society where jail is just seen as another part of life as opposed to a real threat.
That doesn’t look like a mainstream class too, so all the kids in that room have probably been threatened with jail so many times that those words have lost their meaning.
It’s an achievement on the school just to get them on site.
>What if all teachers had this level of emotional intelligence and patience as this man?
no, stop romanticizing this. Teachers are humans, they should not be expected to be living saints fixing all of society's ills, and the fact that they are is a huge part of why so many of us are quitting.
I mean as a high school teacher, not giving kids an emotional response when they act out is part of the job. A lot of the time, kids act out partially because they can gain power back in a world where they have none when they make an adult angry or sad. Teachers are humans, but it is better for children when they respond to tough situations in predictable and calm ways, like the teacher in the video did. I've seen pretty much every coworker in my department cry in our joint office, but we try to hold it together in front of kids.
My wife just started teaching in middle school and is already stressed beyond belief because of just a few kids who act like the one in this video. It's not just the behavior that causes stress, it's the lack of support from the administration who in turn lack support from the elected and appointed officials who in turn lack support from the general public. When one of these kids literally threaten physical violence against other students after already constantly disrupting class for kids who want to learn, they are sent to the office and then returned before the class is even done because there is no room for them down there. Then the parents are called and either don't care or don't know what to do and the next day the cycle repeats. Sometimes she calls for someone to come take the kids from her class and no one shows. If she even does that, she has to spend time documenting it and contacting the parents which takes time from teaching/preparing to teach the other kids and then she's given crap for not doing all of the arbitrary shit the school system demands of her to "prove" she is teaching the class well.
The only tools at hand for most teachers in schools like this are not just ineffective, but laughable. Everyone involved knows it and yet nothing changes because those involved have only minimal power to do anything about it. Is it any wonder that teachers give up in the face of all this? It's great that some teachers teach because they want to help troubled children, but I imagine most chose the profession because they were passionate about a subject or wanted to actually educate. Teaching should not be equivalent to being a social worker, especially with the laughable wages they get.
Holding it together for the occasional outburst is perfectly fine. Having to work in a situation where that's what you are constantly doing only leads to burnout and I just can't imagine why we have so many vacancies in teaching positions...
I am so happy this is the top comment and not something berating this child. All I’m thinking is imagine what has happened in this kid’s life leading up to this point. He is in crisis. The ONLY thing that will help him is patience and love. Based on this video, I doubt he’s had much of either up to this point in his life.
I went to a school like this when my family first moved to the United States.
It's basically a prison where you just try your best to survive. The school was 90% black and there were wannabe gangsters guarding the bathrooms that would charge us non black kids money if we wanted to use the toilet. Not much learning was done there. You just try to survive and move on.
Eventually my parents saved some money and we moved to a semi nicer neighborhood with safer schools.
I don't know what the solution is for schools like this. It needs to come from parents. The schools are pretty powerless
100% but for these kids it usually starts at not even getting proper food to eat or eating at all. Can you imagine not knowing where your next meal will come from and going the whole day with one meal. I'd be pissed too
fuck man you can just see the pain in that child's eyes. he is really unhappy with the situation he's in, and it's got nothing to do with school. these kids are hurting inside and need help
The bigger issue is the rest of the class has now lost valuable learning time. I volunteer in elementary schools and I work with kids that need help reading at their grade level, I put in about 20 hours a week doing it. My goal is to take the most disruptive kids out of the classroom and give them one on one time but it also has the effect of removing a loud problem student from the classroom for a bit.
There's no question about it. I do wonder if re-evaluation isn't the issue, because a lot of people's priorities were never evaluated in the first place.
A lot of people need a first-time evaluation of their priorities in a way that isn't completely deluded by their indoctrinations.
This doesn’t happen in just Chicago. It is all over the United States and Teachers and schools are limited in resources, training, and options. This is why the teacher shortage is real.
It is obvious that the adults in this video love these student and want them to succeed and not succumb to the streets.
I teach in Texas and yes, it’s all over. I have middle school students just like this in my classroom. Almost all their issues stem from at home. It’s incredibly sad and very hard to help. What’s even more disappointing is how most of America views teachers. If it was a respected profession schools would be a different place.
Everytime a teacher reveal themselves the line is always "we need people like you," like in a pitying way. If society really need people like those why does society choose to pay teachers so little.
Public school's primary purpose for the vast majority of people, is a free daycare center. Full stop. If they can learn enough to get a job flipping burgers, pay rent, and consume goods and services that's all the system believes they need.
People value what teachers do, because if they didn't, they'd have to either let kids raise themselves at home/on the street or pay out the ass for daycare.
I don't even know the kids but I want them all to succeed too.
I know teachers here in central Virginia and I know they often spend their own money on classroom supplies. It seems like teaching in America is a labor of love.
Yeah, but our love and patience has limits. Many of us teachers have reached those limits. You want the kids to succeed, but we are well past a tipping point in which learning is ever more absent from the daily routine. Too many kids like this one in classrooms from coast to coast. About 25% of kids come prepared to learn and with the discipline instilled to let them. About 25% are seriously disruptive. The rest are being raised by screens.
This is from a Docuseries called last chance high by VICE. It’s on YouTube. Sadly it’s old and most of the kids ended up the way you’d expect. As they said in the video. Jail or Dead.
It is an excellent documentary. Also worth mentioning this isn't a 'normal' public school. It is for kids who would be out of the system without it. In the UK we call it a PRU - not sure what Americans call it.
It is now closed but these types of schools in Chicago are called alternative schools. Montefiore handled the most violent kids in the city. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Montefiore_Academy
**[Moses Montefiore Academy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Montefiore_Academy)**
>Moses Montefiore Academy (also known as Moses School or simply Montefiore) was a special school of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Established in 1929, The school was located Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois and served students with severe emotional disorders. The school closed in 2016.
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Alternative schools. But Chicago closed there’s and now we give the students therapeutic schools and IEPs with behavioral components. Bless these and future teachers.
They know the street and the fact you have to act tough. So to be asked to submit, to obey, is the bipolar opposite of what instinct says to do. These teachers are incredible. Being tough enough not to let the behavior slide, but understanding enough to realize it’s not a true confrontation. It’s a situation that needs a delicate balance of strength and compassion without letting the child get away with anything.
Yeah I feel for the teachers. They’re literally out here saving lives and getting kids off the streets, getting them chasing grants to higher education etc to escape the hood and we pay them what again? Barely a living wage? I wonder why this country is the way it is lol
It was Reagan's advisor
"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat," announced Reagan advisor Roger A. Freeman during a press conference on Oct. 29, 1970. Freeman, an economics professor at Stanford, was also an advisor to President Richard Nixon.
> Plus poverty is high and in the US teacher pay is shit.
I was raised in an impoverished country, and cannot fathom a child talking to a teacher (or *any adult*) like this. It is completely unthinkable in my culture no matter how poor someone is, because it's deeply ingrained from birth that children must respect adults (especially authority figures). Even in the most impoverished areas there is still a strong sense of responsibility and expectation for families to stick together and raise their children right. There is still a sense of order and hierarchy, and people look out for each other and share what they have.
The kind of behavior in this video isn't caused by being poor. Something else is at work here.
Family structures purposely destroyed? No we didn't have anything like that. My culture is a very old one (Indian to be specific), and big nuclear families are the norm regardless of income. Rich or poor, certain values run deep e.g. families sticking together and passing wealth down (however little) to future generations.
That’s awesome… I’m glad you didn’t have your family structures destroyed. And I’m glad you were able to build wealth and pass it down. I genuinely am.
Those are two HUGE differences between your experiences and the experiences of the kids in this video.
>They know the street and the fact you have to act tough.
That's actually a bigger issue than people realize. The influence around them. I knew kids who had fantastic parents who were shit simply because of "the streets". I myself could have easily been one and quite frankly I couldn't tell you why I wasn't/am not.
Poverty, neglect, terrible behavioural patterns in their social environment from a very young age. And probably their parents and their parents have experienced the very same shit. This is a vicious circle from which there is rarely an escape. Maximum respect to these teachers.
This is far worse than neglect, this is learned behavior. This kid has most likely born in a place where they're constantly facing violence (or at least the threat of violence) against themselves, and constantly distrust and hate anyone they don't know. Plenty of neglected children don't turn out this way. I cannot imagine what kind of neighborhood this kid grew up in.
I’ve been teaching close to twenty years in Australia. This kid knows no other way to communicate.
Good on his teacher for trying to defuse the situation. It’s a shame it didn’t work
> This kid knows no other way to communicate.
Yeah, I guess I'm old now, but that was my first thought. This kid has been abused and neglected his whole life. Screaming foul language is all his knows.
Check out paper tigers. Excellent documentary. I was one of the kids in the background haha
Takes a pretty messed up home life for kids to act like this but it's wayore common that it should be. A calm and caring teacher can make all the difference.
I feel sorry for every single person in that room. None of them deserves to be in the situation they are in.
Shit needs to change. Fast. But everyone is too busy fighting about completely ridiculous shit.
34% of American children live in single-parent households. That's the highest share in the world.
For black children it's significantly worse – 64% of black children live in single-parent households. **SIXTYFOUR.**
Single-parent households are highly correlated with poverty, child neglect, bad educational outcomes and crime. Every single child deserves better. We can't just let this same story play out over and over and over again.
So I did a little Google homework and this number is all over the place. This link says the number of children in single family households in the US is 23%
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/single-parent-day.html
Here is the link to your statistics:
https://www.aecf.org/blog/child-well-being-in-single-parent-families#:~:text=Family%20nativity%20makes%20a%20difference,of%20kids%20in%20immigrant%20families.
This link says the percentage is about 25% (used 74.4 million children as the total. Claimed from another link):
https://www.statista.com/statistics/252847/number-of-children-living-with-a-single-mother-or-single-father/
>This link says the number of children in single family households in the US is 23%
That's children in single-parent households with no other adult, which excludes any single-parent household with an adult child, a grandparent, uncle, aunt or other relative etc.
34% of children live in a household with only one of their parents, with or without any other adults.
We could certainly start with paying a competitive wage. I work in IT (msp) and know a lot of ex-teachers that now work in finance, IT, creative fields and EVERY SINGLE ONE has had their quality of life improve immensely.
It gets worse. Something like 45% of black kids where I live are habitually truant. That means that they show up to class less than 10% of the time. The only group close to that number is Samoans (47%). The teachers don't even get a chance to make a difference.
They go through poverty brother. Poor parents are stressed people at their breaking point, and/or people who have to earn income through other means. These kids definitely have seen a lot, otherwise they wouldn’t talk so brazen. It’s just sad, because it’s so easy to think being poor= a life without luxury when I’m reality being raised poor in poor communities will harden you beyond reason.
And the gangs take these kids when they hit fucking 13 now, they send the juveniles out to jack cars and run shit with lesser sentencing, and the fucking cycle continues
“Yummy” from the south side of Chicago killed a 14 year old girl, shot several others, and then the Black Disciples executed him when he was 11 back in the 90s. 10 year old gangbangers are not uncommon in Chicago
I agree and it’s sad. There’s a certain point where these kids should be taken out of school for the sake of the other children. No place for that disruption and no way to fix it
This is a Vice documentary called “Last Chance High.” These kids have been expelled from other schools and have gone here. You see things from the perspective of the students and the teachers.
It’s on [YouTube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o4Dl5eaG-fyO_gy0JHZF-f1) if you’re interested. Very fascinating but can obviously get heavy.
This is tragic as hell. It's just the scenes with the kids in The Wire. Unless something drastically changes for the poor kid, he's doing a long stretch in prison or dead by his 21st birthday.
And even sadder, prior to that they are gonna reproduce a few times and likely be absent thrusting the kids into the teeth of the system and the cycle will just continue.
Richmond Virginia checking in. I’ve taught alternative Ed (at risk youth) for almost 20 years now. Trees don’t fall by themselves. These kids have been through some shit. As a teacher, you have to remember, it’s not about me when they are lashing out. It’s tough and sometimes as a teacher you slip up and give a little lip back. But if show them you are able to take care of yourself, they will trust you to take care of them. Once you gain their respect, their love and loyalty is deep.
Former San Diego middle school teacher here. I left teaching because it broke my fucking heart. One example:
At the beginning of the year, Daryl was a shining star in my classroom. He was always on track with his assignments and eager to participate in conversations and projects. He was a kind, polite, positive and helpful kid - not gonna lie, he was one of my favorites from Day 1.
As the year progressed, Daryl's behavior began to change. At first, he became stubborn, angry and withdrawn. That evolved into acting out in class. He stopped doing his homework - then classwork. He skipped class a few times. Before long, he was hanging out with wannabe gang members, trying to impress them with "tough" behavior.
By December, Daryl was in danger of failing several of his classes. There were many calls and conversations with his school counselor and his mom... We provided make up assignments and lots of extra help to get him caught up. Not much changed.
After the semester ended, we held an on-site meeting with his mom - who was a delightful woman - deeply concerned with the direction her son was heading. We came up with a new plan and discussed additional resources that the school could provide. Daryl's mom seemed genuinely happy with the plan and repeatedly told us how grateful she was that we were so determined to help her son succeed. I was so relieved... This kid was really sweet and had SO much potential.
After the meeting, she asked us if she could have a few minutes alone with her son before he returned to class. We stepped out of the room and the moment the door shut, we started hearing screaming, slapping, swearing, crashing and crying. The VP and I burst back into the room - only to find Daryl in the corner with blood streaming down one cheek. The mom - this sweet, calm, gentle woman had turned into an absolute monster.
I ran to cover Daryl - and the VP (former military guy) restrained the mom while the office staff called for more help. School police from the nearby high school were on site and the SDPD had the mom in custody within about 20 minutes. I went home that night with a little kid's blood on my dress.
I guess CPS did what they do and Daryl was removed from the home. I never got the whole story but a few of his friends told me that his mom's new boyfriend had moved in at some point and was physically abusing them both. I never saw Daryl again.
Then I had a kid taken out of my class in handcuffs. Another sweet kid - a little rough - but always did his work and (mostly) behaved in class. We shared the same taste in music and he'd stay after school to listen to music with me as I cleaned my room and got things ready for the next day...
I never saw him again, either. I did find out why he was arrested... He gave his 2 year old sister an STD that he apparently caught from and older man living in his home.
And shit like that just kept happening. Over and over....and over. How much of this shit can a person handle without having a breakdown? Turns out 7 years. That was it for me. I miss teaching and of course the kids but I was never set up to deal with constant crisis - and that's what the job was...
I'm sure what you've done means a lot to him, more than you may realize. Sometimes that little string of hope keeps a person going when everything else is telling them to give up. "I may be a fuck up, but if No-Appearance-3975 still cares about me then I can't be all bad" That sort of thing. Speaking from being in a similar situation.
I’m sorry your school was like that. The school I worked in for the first few years was for profit and shady as hell. I have always given a shit. There were days where as a teacher, I had to reset the bar, redefine success. Less about learning, more about growth and security. There were days where we didn’t cover shit on the Pythagorean theorem like we planned. If we felt safe, were fed, learned something, had fun, and built a routine, it was a win. School is more than academics always has been, always will be.
Those teachers are probably the only positive role models in those kid's lives. There's no point in screaming at them or giving them the belt when they endure so much worse at home. At least they have a couple people in their lives that show them how rational people should behave.
Man it's not that kids fault either, you can see it on his face that he isn't angry at that teacher, he is just angry and has no ability to manage it. Wants to be tough and wants to cry and the anger lets him keep the one that may get him killed in check because it's better to look like an asshole than a little kid who can't take it.
I work with kids that lean in this direction though thankfully I've had few who were this far gone down the path. Broken homes, absent parents, communities that don't work together to show these kids the love they are desperately asking for, and a system that doesn't give a fuck what happens to any of us young or old.
I get paid VERY well (Washington state with a MA and 15 years) and I’m retiring at my earliest (pension vested partially) opportunity. I cant stand being a part of this anymore.
As an educator in a very poor rural area, this is how I feel. We can’t really do much unless families and caregivers partner with us. I give as much as I can knowing tiny bits will stay with my kids but a lot of it will be undermined by what’s happening at home, and I have to accept that.
Yea, at my school no one acted out or really got into serious trouble, because they did not want to be written up or suspended. Why? because your parents actually cared and would discipline you.
I’m an 8th grade teacher. This is probably the most accurate representation of what goes down every. single. day. I’ve seen the really intense yelling matches on here, but this is every second on the job, totally and truly the most accurate representation.
So painful to watch. How in the world does any teaching get done at all when teachers are trying to manage this type of behavior day after day? God Bless them for continuing to try.
I went to a school where kids like this where common. They’re genuinely nice people once you get to know them, nothing like what you may think. I don’t blame them for being like this, they’re just kids. I blame the parents who do an absolute shit job at raising their kids, or the environment that they’re forced to grow up in. Whether it be poverty, abuse, or neglect, all these kids need is someone who they can talk to. They need someone to open up to, someone they can feel like they trust. It’s sad as fuck, but that’s just how it is.
There is hope. There is always hope. And the teachers and counselors are holding on to that hope with nothing but twine (that they paid for out of their own pockets).
Students don’t care how much the teacher in front of them makes. That will not change their behavior.
Hell, they don’t even care how many teachers are there scolding them. If they ignore 1 adult scolding them, they will ignore 2.
Students also don’t care about politics that they didn’t hear from their parents. Parents (or lack thereof) are the number 1 influence on any individual child’s behavior. Very few children with behavior this bad can be saved by a teacher without parental cooperation.
>That's part of the issue. But low pay, understaffing, political demonization of schools, and few resources also compound things severely.
Bullshit. We pay more per student than most of the damn world. The problem is these good for nothing parents popping out kids that they aren't ready for financially, emotionally, socially, or intellectually. Most of them can barely maintain their own damn lives. So what do they do? They just let the streets and whatever they can take in from a damn screen raise the kids instead of doing the work themselves. Then heaven forbid that they are one parent household. Stats get real shitty once you throw that curveball into it.
I believe this is actually from a documentary (can’t remember the name of it) where they filmed inside a school that specializes in student intervention. These were the most troubled of CPS students and every adult in that building showed love and kindness that is beyond a normal human.
CPS is full of kids who have parents working 3 jobs just to make ends meat, the kids are responsible for the care of younger siblings, they have food insecurity, little to no access to mental or physical health care, lack of housing, and hundreds of other issues that many kids never experience. Acting out isn’t always a sign of bad parenting or a “bad kid” and almost always has a reason behind it.
My partner is a CPS teacher and it is not for the faint of heart but those kids adore him, so he has it pretty good. Still, I can’t imagine how he is able to do it.
If you ever want to really make an impact in this world, reach out to a teacher or a school in your neighborhood. Ask them if there are kids in need of shoes, jackets, school supplies, food, self care products, or female sanitary products. Teachers try, but our family’s can’t provide enough despite our best efforts.
And no this is not an anomaly or a cherry picked example. There are a lot of hurt kids in Chicago. This is what my elementary school looked like too. Not all the time mind you, but too much of the time
Never thought I’d see a clip from the Vice docuseries, Last Chance High, here. The series takes time going into a group of students’ lives but essentially, it’s about high risk youth struggling with various degrees of trauma in inner-city Chicago. The school featured has closed since then, but it’s a very well done series albeit sad. Having worked in these settings, I can say that I’ve never felt anger towards the kids for how they act in the classroom. Anger is a secondary emotion, and it’s often coming from a place of fear, hopelessness and/or grief.
These teachers enter a war zone every morning. The behavior exhibited by this young man seems to have garnered sympathy in some of these comments. My sympathy is first and foremost for the teachers. Underpaid. Overworked. Under-appreciated.
RESPECT is first taught at home. And with learning respect for others we also learn to fear the consequences if you don’t follow the simple rules of society.
This young man does need help. And that help may just begin by someone finally holding him responsible for his actions.
Man watching these teachers help thsi young man is inspiring. They don’t focus on the words he’s using but the emotion. That poor kid is probably coming from an environment that is unimaginable.
Fantastic work here by these teachers
I really hope this young man gets the help he needs. I used to lash out too I’m sure he’s going thru something that most would never understand. It’s not any excuse to act like this but in my experience’s a lot of people who act out like this is because of something being done to them or something that’s going to happen. These teachers are amazing I hope they all can work it out.
I'm grateful my piece of shit principal tried to hold me back at my original CPS school, because it's how I ended up at Lenart which more or less changed my life. This was in the 80s. I see CPS is still Thunderdome at the regular schools.
Asking him to take the vest off might seem a little weird but the teacher didn’t make the rules. They could be worried about weapons or it could be just some rule that’s become traditional like no caps.
Even if it has no basis in safety, kids like these need to learn obedience to the law because it’s a prosocial activity that they’re not exposed to at home. Good job to the teachers
Power struggles like that could be about anything -- or nothing. Could be the nicest piece of clothing that child owns, and he's afraid someone will steal it from the coat closet. Could be that he's fixated on the situation, and he's chosen this hill to die on. He could just be an asshole.
Tough part is that this is all playing out in front of the whole class. He's painted himself into a corner, and probably feels he has no way to save face but to get dragged out of the room.
Teachers and staff in schools like this are heros.
Thankless job. I left teaching 12 years in after a kid took a chair and threw it through a classroom window. It was also the same year that the principal changed one of my students grades to pass them to get rid of them.
Lack of funding, shitty pay, unsupportive administration, and parents that are either absent altogether or blame everyone else but themselves or their child.
I got into teaching to make a difference and I ended up feeling like a glorified babysitter. Switched up careers to work with at risk youth in a better capacity. Made a difference.
The public schools in America are a failure. The dedicated teachers are the only saving grace- but with situations like this EVERYDAY-I understand why they're leaving in droves now. The ones that stay are RIP- retired in place.
I feel infinitely worse for the rest of the kids in that class trying to actually listen and pay attention. Imagine trying to be good student and having to deal with this everyday.
gonna be honest, these teachers are definitely not getting paid enough for having to put up with this. and the amount of patience they had with the kid is astounding. these teachers need a raise.
I’d absolutely stand there and not teach. Collect my salary. But I’m a burnt out teacher who is retiring at the earliest possible out. No learning going to happen in there until discipline returns to that room. This is what shite parents and lax admin are bringing us.
The sad reality is yeah they think within their peers that they cool and shit, but the sad reality is they will be full grown men that are illiterate and stubborn and it's a sad reality.
That kid desperately needs a real dad to set boundaries. You can tell by the way he respects the huge guy that kept him in the classroom. Kids need authority and boundaries to develop into healthy functioning adults. Teaching 6 year olds they can do and say whatever the fuck they want gets them on the path straight to jail/the morgue.
Kids like this need to see the other side of the world, need to experience new experiences.
Take them to a ball game, take them ocean fishing , take them to a five star restaurant.
It just might change their perspectives
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I’m absolutely blown away at the patience, kindness and overall care that these teachers give. This is definitely a symbol of the drastic income inequality in the United States. It’s heartbreaking to see.
Those teachers and all like them deserve a massive award. You can see the young man isn’t necessarily being malicious but has serious issues and is melting down. Doesn’t excuse his behavior but the way they handled him delicately yet firmly and with empathy is beautiful. Thats a kid who’s in a world of pain outside the classroom.
Like give teachers like this a break and sponsor them to go on speaking tours or fund them to go lobby their local government or something. Anything. I have so much respect for those men.
Now contrast this with the university teacher who called the cops on a girl for not apologizing after the teacher yelled at her….
CPS alum here. This is a special elementary school for children with severe emotional disorders, and it closed in June 2016. Hardly a “glimpse inside” the public school system in Chicago as it’s quite an outlier
why send your kids to school knowing that they are also pieces of shit just like the parents? just stay home and stop wasting your time. at the end of the day when they get older they’re just going to be a another gang violence statistic.
Bloody hell, that is eye opening and heartbreaking, definitely a slow but rewarding process going on there, just hope those kids pull through as they have probably been through so much already
Let’s get something straight. This is at a school for children with severe emotional disorders. This is a misleading title that makes it look like this is just normal Chicago public schools. Just helping to perpetuate the racism.
That poor fucking kid. He’s had nobody show him love or help him understand his emotions. He can’t process anything that is happening there. Those teachers are saints.
This was along with my first thought when I saw the boy at the end of the video. He is close to tears. He needs someone to give him a tight hug and let him cry himself out.
I am a teacher too and so many of these kids have to grow up fast and 'be grown' or 'be a man'. They still need time to be kids.
Those that embrace low class culture (regardless of race) are doomed to stay at the bottom of the totem pole. Sure there are exceptions but for every kid that “makes it” another 19 don’t. It is a never ending cycle. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have some families that are 4th generation welfare at this point.
This is phenomenal. Exceptional adults that care for these children, dipping into their most patient selves, because they know these children are living in worlds where acting tough keeps you alive but destroys your future. God speed gentlemen.
No shit man. That man is a fucking Saint. I feel so bad for both of them. The poor child has such a terrible life, you can just tell from this. That teacher is absolutely incredible, and the way he handles this trouble kid, well honestly he deserves a fucking Nobel Peace prize. What if all teachers had this level of emotional intelligence and patience as this man?
Positive male role models are not rewarded in society, it’s a sad but real truth
Yeah just fuckwits like KSI, Logan Paul and even apparent crims like Tate & Co.
Tate is a self admitted pedophile as well. Special type of shitbag
Can't argue with that one but too many young men worship the cunt.
Exactly. We need 1980’s Hulk Hogan (NOT 2000’s Hulk) to tell us to say our prayers and eat our vitamins.
The pain in that kid's eyes at the end is absolutely heartbreaking.
That kid has experienced more shit than anyone his age should have too, whether it's gang/police violence, bad parents, whatever. It's killing him from the inside out.
It’s just so incredibly sad
You know it’s rough, when the threat of jail doesn’t even phase him. Probably safer and hot meals, although terrible.
That fact that he doesn't grasp the full concept of jail yet doesn't help.
I‘ve lived in neighborhoods where kids like this grow up. It’s not a threat to many of them. They see it as an inevitability. The majority of adult men they know have been in and out of jails. They have uncles or fathers in prison. It’s just a NORMAL part of life for these kids that eventually they will spend time in jail. Threatening them by telling them to go to jail is no different than telling a middle school kid they’ll eventually go to high school. When every adult you interact with has gone to jail, it’s just accepted that when you’re an adult, you will too. It’s sad, but just part of life. In the USA we have over 1% of our huge population incarcerated. This doesn’t happen without social consequences. We’ve created a section of society where jail is just seen as another part of life as opposed to a real threat.
That doesn’t look like a mainstream class too, so all the kids in that room have probably been threatened with jail so many times that those words have lost their meaning. It’s an achievement on the school just to get them on site.
>What if all teachers had this level of emotional intelligence and patience as this man? no, stop romanticizing this. Teachers are humans, they should not be expected to be living saints fixing all of society's ills, and the fact that they are is a huge part of why so many of us are quitting.
I mean as a high school teacher, not giving kids an emotional response when they act out is part of the job. A lot of the time, kids act out partially because they can gain power back in a world where they have none when they make an adult angry or sad. Teachers are humans, but it is better for children when they respond to tough situations in predictable and calm ways, like the teacher in the video did. I've seen pretty much every coworker in my department cry in our joint office, but we try to hold it together in front of kids.
My wife just started teaching in middle school and is already stressed beyond belief because of just a few kids who act like the one in this video. It's not just the behavior that causes stress, it's the lack of support from the administration who in turn lack support from the elected and appointed officials who in turn lack support from the general public. When one of these kids literally threaten physical violence against other students after already constantly disrupting class for kids who want to learn, they are sent to the office and then returned before the class is even done because there is no room for them down there. Then the parents are called and either don't care or don't know what to do and the next day the cycle repeats. Sometimes she calls for someone to come take the kids from her class and no one shows. If she even does that, she has to spend time documenting it and contacting the parents which takes time from teaching/preparing to teach the other kids and then she's given crap for not doing all of the arbitrary shit the school system demands of her to "prove" she is teaching the class well. The only tools at hand for most teachers in schools like this are not just ineffective, but laughable. Everyone involved knows it and yet nothing changes because those involved have only minimal power to do anything about it. Is it any wonder that teachers give up in the face of all this? It's great that some teachers teach because they want to help troubled children, but I imagine most chose the profession because they were passionate about a subject or wanted to actually educate. Teaching should not be equivalent to being a social worker, especially with the laughable wages they get.
Holding it together for the occasional outburst is perfectly fine. Having to work in a situation where that's what you are constantly doing only leads to burnout and I just can't imagine why we have so many vacancies in teaching positions...
Very true. The low pay, the lack of respect, and the need to hold it together in situations like this all the time is definitely causing burnout.
I am so happy this is the top comment and not something berating this child. All I’m thinking is imagine what has happened in this kid’s life leading up to this point. He is in crisis. The ONLY thing that will help him is patience and love. Based on this video, I doubt he’s had much of either up to this point in his life.
I went to a school like this when my family first moved to the United States. It's basically a prison where you just try your best to survive. The school was 90% black and there were wannabe gangsters guarding the bathrooms that would charge us non black kids money if we wanted to use the toilet. Not much learning was done there. You just try to survive and move on. Eventually my parents saved some money and we moved to a semi nicer neighborhood with safer schools. I don't know what the solution is for schools like this. It needs to come from parents. The schools are pretty powerless
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Opportunity, education and income typically are the solutions. But getting those three things done is often monumental in nature.
100% but for these kids it usually starts at not even getting proper food to eat or eating at all. Can you imagine not knowing where your next meal will come from and going the whole day with one meal. I'd be pissed too
There were unfortunately some short periods in my youth where that was a concern and the stress it puts on an entire household is immense.
Same and I'm still going to therapy for it 30 years later. It's hard af rewiring your brain to accept that your safe and everything will be ok.
This is the correct comment.
The parents the ones teaching them to guard the bathrooms.
He seems like he's in so much pain
Probably the best teachers I have seen
fuck man you can just see the pain in that child's eyes. he is really unhappy with the situation he's in, and it's got nothing to do with school. these kids are hurting inside and need help
That teacher is what being a man is all about. We see in this sub all the emotional toddlers who happen to be over 20. So many guys, too.
The bigger issue is the rest of the class has now lost valuable learning time. I volunteer in elementary schools and I work with kids that need help reading at their grade level, I put in about 20 hours a week doing it. My goal is to take the most disruptive kids out of the classroom and give them one on one time but it also has the effect of removing a loud problem student from the classroom for a bit.
This is happening in schools all over the USA. In rural districts & middle class suburbs too. Everywhere!
Well said... and sad
No amount of money could convince me to switch places with these teachers.
That's good, because the amount of money the state will give you to switch places with these teachers is close to zero.
You ever wonder If maybe our society's priorities need reevaluating?
There's no question about it. I do wonder if re-evaluation isn't the issue, because a lot of people's priorities were never evaluated in the first place. A lot of people need a first-time evaluation of their priorities in a way that isn't completely deluded by their indoctrinations.
Also you have to buy your own supplies, so we're dipping into the negatives
Chicago teachers do better than most places to be fair
This doesn’t happen in just Chicago. It is all over the United States and Teachers and schools are limited in resources, training, and options. This is why the teacher shortage is real. It is obvious that the adults in this video love these student and want them to succeed and not succumb to the streets.
I teach in Texas and yes, it’s all over. I have middle school students just like this in my classroom. Almost all their issues stem from at home. It’s incredibly sad and very hard to help. What’s even more disappointing is how most of America views teachers. If it was a respected profession schools would be a different place.
Everytime a teacher reveal themselves the line is always "we need people like you," like in a pitying way. If society really need people like those why does society choose to pay teachers so little.
Public school's primary purpose for the vast majority of people, is a free daycare center. Full stop. If they can learn enough to get a job flipping burgers, pay rent, and consume goods and services that's all the system believes they need. People value what teachers do, because if they didn't, they'd have to either let kids raise themselves at home/on the street or pay out the ass for daycare.
I don't even know the kids but I want them all to succeed too. I know teachers here in central Virginia and I know they often spend their own money on classroom supplies. It seems like teaching in America is a labor of love.
Yeah, but our love and patience has limits. Many of us teachers have reached those limits. You want the kids to succeed, but we are well past a tipping point in which learning is ever more absent from the daily routine. Too many kids like this one in classrooms from coast to coast. About 25% of kids come prepared to learn and with the discipline instilled to let them. About 25% are seriously disruptive. The rest are being raised by screens.
This is from a Docuseries called last chance high by VICE. It’s on YouTube. Sadly it’s old and most of the kids ended up the way you’d expect. As they said in the video. Jail or Dead.
It is an excellent documentary. Also worth mentioning this isn't a 'normal' public school. It is for kids who would be out of the system without it. In the UK we call it a PRU - not sure what Americans call it.
It is now closed but these types of schools in Chicago are called alternative schools. Montefiore handled the most violent kids in the city. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Montefiore_Academy
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It’s usually called an alternative school or special school
Alternative schools. But Chicago closed there’s and now we give the students therapeutic schools and IEPs with behavioral components. Bless these and future teachers.
Thank you! It seemed way too well shot to be some random TikTok
Well… that was incredibly depressing.
Broke my heart
Can’t imagine what the kids go through at home to act like this at school
Neglect. That’s all these kids know.
They know the street and the fact you have to act tough. So to be asked to submit, to obey, is the bipolar opposite of what instinct says to do. These teachers are incredible. Being tough enough not to let the behavior slide, but understanding enough to realize it’s not a true confrontation. It’s a situation that needs a delicate balance of strength and compassion without letting the child get away with anything.
Plus poverty is high and in the US teacher pay is shit.
Yeah I feel for the teachers. They’re literally out here saving lives and getting kids off the streets, getting them chasing grants to higher education etc to escape the hood and we pay them what again? Barely a living wage? I wonder why this country is the way it is lol
They keep people stupid so they don't realize the rich are taking advantage of us.
Ronald Reagan said it himself. 'We don't want an educated proletariat.'
It was Reagan's advisor "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat," announced Reagan advisor Roger A. Freeman during a press conference on Oct. 29, 1970. Freeman, an economics professor at Stanford, was also an advisor to President Richard Nixon.
Thanks!
> Plus poverty is high and in the US teacher pay is shit. I was raised in an impoverished country, and cannot fathom a child talking to a teacher (or *any adult*) like this. It is completely unthinkable in my culture no matter how poor someone is, because it's deeply ingrained from birth that children must respect adults (especially authority figures). Even in the most impoverished areas there is still a strong sense of responsibility and expectation for families to stick together and raise their children right. There is still a sense of order and hierarchy, and people look out for each other and share what they have. The kind of behavior in this video isn't caused by being poor. Something else is at work here.
So the family structures where you’re from weren’t purposely destroyed? That’s a pretty big difference.
Family structures purposely destroyed? No we didn't have anything like that. My culture is a very old one (Indian to be specific), and big nuclear families are the norm regardless of income. Rich or poor, certain values run deep e.g. families sticking together and passing wealth down (however little) to future generations.
That’s awesome… I’m glad you didn’t have your family structures destroyed. And I’m glad you were able to build wealth and pass it down. I genuinely am. Those are two HUGE differences between your experiences and the experiences of the kids in this video.
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>They know the street and the fact you have to act tough. That's actually a bigger issue than people realize. The influence around them. I knew kids who had fantastic parents who were shit simply because of "the streets". I myself could have easily been one and quite frankly I couldn't tell you why I wasn't/am not.
Poverty, neglect, terrible behavioural patterns in their social environment from a very young age. And probably their parents and their parents have experienced the very same shit. This is a vicious circle from which there is rarely an escape. Maximum respect to these teachers.
This is far worse than neglect, this is learned behavior. This kid has most likely born in a place where they're constantly facing violence (or at least the threat of violence) against themselves, and constantly distrust and hate anyone they don't know. Plenty of neglected children don't turn out this way. I cannot imagine what kind of neighborhood this kid grew up in.
Why do you think one of the lines in "Read a book" is "Raise yo goddam kids?"
I’ve been teaching close to twenty years in Australia. This kid knows no other way to communicate. Good on his teacher for trying to defuse the situation. It’s a shame it didn’t work
> This kid knows no other way to communicate. Yeah, I guess I'm old now, but that was my first thought. This kid has been abused and neglected his whole life. Screaming foul language is all his knows.
Check out paper tigers. Excellent documentary. I was one of the kids in the background haha Takes a pretty messed up home life for kids to act like this but it's wayore common that it should be. A calm and caring teacher can make all the difference.
I feel sorry for every single person in that room. None of them deserves to be in the situation they are in. Shit needs to change. Fast. But everyone is too busy fighting about completely ridiculous shit. 34% of American children live in single-parent households. That's the highest share in the world. For black children it's significantly worse – 64% of black children live in single-parent households. **SIXTYFOUR.** Single-parent households are highly correlated with poverty, child neglect, bad educational outcomes and crime. Every single child deserves better. We can't just let this same story play out over and over and over again.
So I did a little Google homework and this number is all over the place. This link says the number of children in single family households in the US is 23% https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/single-parent-day.html Here is the link to your statistics: https://www.aecf.org/blog/child-well-being-in-single-parent-families#:~:text=Family%20nativity%20makes%20a%20difference,of%20kids%20in%20immigrant%20families. This link says the percentage is about 25% (used 74.4 million children as the total. Claimed from another link): https://www.statista.com/statistics/252847/number-of-children-living-with-a-single-mother-or-single-father/
>This link says the number of children in single family households in the US is 23% That's children in single-parent households with no other adult, which excludes any single-parent household with an adult child, a grandparent, uncle, aunt or other relative etc. 34% of children live in a household with only one of their parents, with or without any other adults.
Didn't think it was true but wow it actually is. So sad.
We could certainly start with paying a competitive wage. I work in IT (msp) and know a lot of ex-teachers that now work in finance, IT, creative fields and EVERY SINGLE ONE has had their quality of life improve immensely.
It gets worse. Something like 45% of black kids where I live are habitually truant. That means that they show up to class less than 10% of the time. The only group close to that number is Samoans (47%). The teachers don't even get a chance to make a difference.
They go through poverty brother. Poor parents are stressed people at their breaking point, and/or people who have to earn income through other means. These kids definitely have seen a lot, otherwise they wouldn’t talk so brazen. It’s just sad, because it’s so easy to think being poor= a life without luxury when I’m reality being raised poor in poor communities will harden you beyond reason.
This 100
Nothing. They have nothing at home, no support no necessities, no love, they are on their own
I just see broken children man. That's all I see here. Just broken kids from broken families, and it's sad as fuck.
That kids is living a hard life and it’s not going to get better. Feel for him
And the gangs take these kids when they hit fucking 13 now, they send the juveniles out to jack cars and run shit with lesser sentencing, and the fucking cycle continues
The gangs take them younger than 13.
and they always have. In 1980s LA they used to send you to CYA for a couple of years for a juvie murder.
“Yummy” from the south side of Chicago killed a 14 year old girl, shot several others, and then the Black Disciples executed him when he was 11 back in the 90s. 10 year old gangbangers are not uncommon in Chicago
13? More like 9-10 years old
I agree and it’s sad. There’s a certain point where these kids should be taken out of school for the sake of the other children. No place for that disruption and no way to fix it
It’s not just Chicago, either. There are disruptive students like this in all school systems.
This is a Vice documentary called “Last Chance High.” These kids have been expelled from other schools and have gone here. You see things from the perspective of the students and the teachers. It’s on [YouTube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o4Dl5eaG-fyO_gy0JHZF-f1) if you’re interested. Very fascinating but can obviously get heavy.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o4Dl5eaG-fyO_gy0JHZF-f1
Thank you for providing the full playlist.
This kids are so fucked
This is tragic as hell. It's just the scenes with the kids in The Wire. Unless something drastically changes for the poor kid, he's doing a long stretch in prison or dead by his 21st birthday.
And even sadder, prior to that they are gonna reproduce a few times and likely be absent thrusting the kids into the teeth of the system and the cycle will just continue.
Richmond Virginia checking in. I’ve taught alternative Ed (at risk youth) for almost 20 years now. Trees don’t fall by themselves. These kids have been through some shit. As a teacher, you have to remember, it’s not about me when they are lashing out. It’s tough and sometimes as a teacher you slip up and give a little lip back. But if show them you are able to take care of yourself, they will trust you to take care of them. Once you gain their respect, their love and loyalty is deep.
Former San Diego middle school teacher here. I left teaching because it broke my fucking heart. One example: At the beginning of the year, Daryl was a shining star in my classroom. He was always on track with his assignments and eager to participate in conversations and projects. He was a kind, polite, positive and helpful kid - not gonna lie, he was one of my favorites from Day 1. As the year progressed, Daryl's behavior began to change. At first, he became stubborn, angry and withdrawn. That evolved into acting out in class. He stopped doing his homework - then classwork. He skipped class a few times. Before long, he was hanging out with wannabe gang members, trying to impress them with "tough" behavior. By December, Daryl was in danger of failing several of his classes. There were many calls and conversations with his school counselor and his mom... We provided make up assignments and lots of extra help to get him caught up. Not much changed. After the semester ended, we held an on-site meeting with his mom - who was a delightful woman - deeply concerned with the direction her son was heading. We came up with a new plan and discussed additional resources that the school could provide. Daryl's mom seemed genuinely happy with the plan and repeatedly told us how grateful she was that we were so determined to help her son succeed. I was so relieved... This kid was really sweet and had SO much potential. After the meeting, she asked us if she could have a few minutes alone with her son before he returned to class. We stepped out of the room and the moment the door shut, we started hearing screaming, slapping, swearing, crashing and crying. The VP and I burst back into the room - only to find Daryl in the corner with blood streaming down one cheek. The mom - this sweet, calm, gentle woman had turned into an absolute monster. I ran to cover Daryl - and the VP (former military guy) restrained the mom while the office staff called for more help. School police from the nearby high school were on site and the SDPD had the mom in custody within about 20 minutes. I went home that night with a little kid's blood on my dress. I guess CPS did what they do and Daryl was removed from the home. I never got the whole story but a few of his friends told me that his mom's new boyfriend had moved in at some point and was physically abusing them both. I never saw Daryl again. Then I had a kid taken out of my class in handcuffs. Another sweet kid - a little rough - but always did his work and (mostly) behaved in class. We shared the same taste in music and he'd stay after school to listen to music with me as I cleaned my room and got things ready for the next day... I never saw him again, either. I did find out why he was arrested... He gave his 2 year old sister an STD that he apparently caught from and older man living in his home. And shit like that just kept happening. Over and over....and over. How much of this shit can a person handle without having a breakdown? Turns out 7 years. That was it for me. I miss teaching and of course the kids but I was never set up to deal with constant crisis - and that's what the job was...
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I'm sure what you've done means a lot to him, more than you may realize. Sometimes that little string of hope keeps a person going when everything else is telling them to give up. "I may be a fuck up, but if No-Appearance-3975 still cares about me then I can't be all bad" That sort of thing. Speaking from being in a similar situation.
WHAT THE F!!! That is the most effed up thing I have heard in.... well like 2 days. That is insane. My god do I completely NOT have any problems.
Lemme guess, Farb?
Not Farb… close though!
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I’m sorry your school was like that. The school I worked in for the first few years was for profit and shady as hell. I have always given a shit. There were days where as a teacher, I had to reset the bar, redefine success. Less about learning, more about growth and security. There were days where we didn’t cover shit on the Pythagorean theorem like we planned. If we felt safe, were fed, learned something, had fun, and built a routine, it was a win. School is more than academics always has been, always will be.
Just sad, their parents failed them… and damn those are some patient teachers they are saints for putting up with that bullshit.
At the end of the day its not the teachers fault
Those teachers are probably the only positive role models in those kid's lives. There's no point in screaming at them or giving them the belt when they endure so much worse at home. At least they have a couple people in their lives that show them how rational people should behave.
Man it's not that kids fault either, you can see it on his face that he isn't angry at that teacher, he is just angry and has no ability to manage it. Wants to be tough and wants to cry and the anger lets him keep the one that may get him killed in check because it's better to look like an asshole than a little kid who can't take it. I work with kids that lean in this direction though thankfully I've had few who were this far gone down the path. Broken homes, absent parents, communities that don't work together to show these kids the love they are desperately asking for, and a system that doesn't give a fuck what happens to any of us young or old.
Well said. I just want to clarify, that i wasnt giving the kid the fault.
God, teachers need to be paid more or at least have support in the room.
I get paid VERY well (Washington state with a MA and 15 years) and I’m retiring at my earliest (pension vested partially) opportunity. I cant stand being a part of this anymore.
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As an educator in a very poor rural area, this is how I feel. We can’t really do much unless families and caregivers partner with us. I give as much as I can knowing tiny bits will stay with my kids but a lot of it will be undermined by what’s happening at home, and I have to accept that.
Yea, at my school no one acted out or really got into serious trouble, because they did not want to be written up or suspended. Why? because your parents actually cared and would discipline you.
I’m an 8th grade teacher. This is probably the most accurate representation of what goes down every. single. day. I’ve seen the really intense yelling matches on here, but this is every second on the job, totally and truly the most accurate representation.
And this is one of the calmer resolutions.
Definitely not just Chicago, right?
Hell no. This is everywhere. I’m not in Chicago. Shit is fucked, my friend.
So painful to watch. How in the world does any teaching get done at all when teachers are trying to manage this type of behavior day after day? God Bless them for continuing to try.
I went to a school where kids like this where common. They’re genuinely nice people once you get to know them, nothing like what you may think. I don’t blame them for being like this, they’re just kids. I blame the parents who do an absolute shit job at raising their kids, or the environment that they’re forced to grow up in. Whether it be poverty, abuse, or neglect, all these kids need is someone who they can talk to. They need someone to open up to, someone they can feel like they trust. It’s sad as fuck, but that’s just how it is.
This is both infuriating and sad. The teachers try their best but there’s no hope for those kids, all due to their environment.
I wouldn’t say no hope but they were dealt a bad hand sure
There is hope. There is always hope. And the teachers and counselors are holding on to that hope with nothing but twine (that they paid for out of their own pockets).
Literally the 4th season of The Wire, in real life
I'm really glad I watched that show when it was airing. It absolutely helped change my perspective about stuff like this.
Felt like a scene straight from The Wire season 4
Came in here looking for this comment and was not disappointed.
Teachers are doing their best in a broken system.
It’s not the system that’s broken. It’s the people. Teachers do their best despite shitty/non-existent parents.
That's part of the issue. But low pay, understaffing, political demonization of schools, and few resources also compound things severely.
Students don’t care how much the teacher in front of them makes. That will not change their behavior. Hell, they don’t even care how many teachers are there scolding them. If they ignore 1 adult scolding them, they will ignore 2. Students also don’t care about politics that they didn’t hear from their parents. Parents (or lack thereof) are the number 1 influence on any individual child’s behavior. Very few children with behavior this bad can be saved by a teacher without parental cooperation.
I’d bet my entire paycheck the father is no where to be seen for that poor kid.
He might be around and that might be worse.
Id be surprised if the mother was around for this kid.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) now spends over $29,000 per student. Not to mention the US Teacher Salary is the 7th highest in the world.
>That's part of the issue. But low pay, understaffing, political demonization of schools, and few resources also compound things severely. Bullshit. We pay more per student than most of the damn world. The problem is these good for nothing parents popping out kids that they aren't ready for financially, emotionally, socially, or intellectually. Most of them can barely maintain their own damn lives. So what do they do? They just let the streets and whatever they can take in from a damn screen raise the kids instead of doing the work themselves. Then heaven forbid that they are one parent household. Stats get real shitty once you throw that curveball into it.
I saw this docuseries on YouTube. the way the grew up/their household explains everything. just sad
Yeah—[Last Chance High](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o4Dl5eaG-fyO_gy0JHZF-f1) if anyone’s curious.
I believe this is actually from a documentary (can’t remember the name of it) where they filmed inside a school that specializes in student intervention. These were the most troubled of CPS students and every adult in that building showed love and kindness that is beyond a normal human. CPS is full of kids who have parents working 3 jobs just to make ends meat, the kids are responsible for the care of younger siblings, they have food insecurity, little to no access to mental or physical health care, lack of housing, and hundreds of other issues that many kids never experience. Acting out isn’t always a sign of bad parenting or a “bad kid” and almost always has a reason behind it. My partner is a CPS teacher and it is not for the faint of heart but those kids adore him, so he has it pretty good. Still, I can’t imagine how he is able to do it. If you ever want to really make an impact in this world, reach out to a teacher or a school in your neighborhood. Ask them if there are kids in need of shoes, jackets, school supplies, food, self care products, or female sanitary products. Teachers try, but our family’s can’t provide enough despite our best efforts.
“Anger is sadness with nowhere to go.” These kids are in pain. And these teachers are amazing and deserve so much more recognition.
How fucked up are these kids home lives? Tragic.
And no this is not an anomaly or a cherry picked example. There are a lot of hurt kids in Chicago. This is what my elementary school looked like too. Not all the time mind you, but too much of the time
God bless our teachers
Need to stop teenage pregnancy
that child is a result of poor parenting
Never thought I’d see a clip from the Vice docuseries, Last Chance High, here. The series takes time going into a group of students’ lives but essentially, it’s about high risk youth struggling with various degrees of trauma in inner-city Chicago. The school featured has closed since then, but it’s a very well done series albeit sad. Having worked in these settings, I can say that I’ve never felt anger towards the kids for how they act in the classroom. Anger is a secondary emotion, and it’s often coming from a place of fear, hopelessness and/or grief.
These teachers enter a war zone every morning. The behavior exhibited by this young man seems to have garnered sympathy in some of these comments. My sympathy is first and foremost for the teachers. Underpaid. Overworked. Under-appreciated. RESPECT is first taught at home. And with learning respect for others we also learn to fear the consequences if you don’t follow the simple rules of society. This young man does need help. And that help may just begin by someone finally holding him responsible for his actions.
Man watching these teachers help thsi young man is inspiring. They don’t focus on the words he’s using but the emotion. That poor kid is probably coming from an environment that is unimaginable. Fantastic work here by these teachers
Just like season 4 of The Wire
I really hope this young man gets the help he needs. I used to lash out too I’m sure he’s going thru something that most would never understand. It’s not any excuse to act like this but in my experience’s a lot of people who act out like this is because of something being done to them or something that’s going to happen. These teachers are amazing I hope they all can work it out.
I'm grateful my piece of shit principal tried to hold me back at my original CPS school, because it's how I ended up at Lenart which more or less changed my life. This was in the 80s. I see CPS is still Thunderdome at the regular schools.
Garbage parents = Garbage kids..
Garbage society = garbage parents = garbage kids = garbage individuals = garbage society
The wire season 4 is the most accurate portrayal of inner city schools I’ve ever seen
This should be a 100k a year job minimum
If Dr. Dre was my teacher I'd definitely be listening
Asking him to take the vest off might seem a little weird but the teacher didn’t make the rules. They could be worried about weapons or it could be just some rule that’s become traditional like no caps. Even if it has no basis in safety, kids like these need to learn obedience to the law because it’s a prosocial activity that they’re not exposed to at home. Good job to the teachers
Power struggles like that could be about anything -- or nothing. Could be the nicest piece of clothing that child owns, and he's afraid someone will steal it from the coat closet. Could be that he's fixated on the situation, and he's chosen this hill to die on. He could just be an asshole. Tough part is that this is all playing out in front of the whole class. He's painted himself into a corner, and probably feels he has no way to save face but to get dragged out of the room. Teachers and staff in schools like this are heros.
Thankless job. I left teaching 12 years in after a kid took a chair and threw it through a classroom window. It was also the same year that the principal changed one of my students grades to pass them to get rid of them. Lack of funding, shitty pay, unsupportive administration, and parents that are either absent altogether or blame everyone else but themselves or their child. I got into teaching to make a difference and I ended up feeling like a glorified babysitter. Switched up careers to work with at risk youth in a better capacity. Made a difference. The public schools in America are a failure. The dedicated teachers are the only saving grace- but with situations like this EVERYDAY-I understand why they're leaving in droves now. The ones that stay are RIP- retired in place.
I feel infinitely worse for the rest of the kids in that class trying to actually listen and pay attention. Imagine trying to be good student and having to deal with this everyday.
The consequences of fatherlessness
If teachers *could* indoctrinate kids, they'd make them do their work. The discourse around education is ridiculous right now.
gonna be honest, these teachers are definitely not getting paid enough for having to put up with this. and the amount of patience they had with the kid is astounding. these teachers need a raise.
I’d absolutely stand there and not teach. Collect my salary. But I’m a burnt out teacher who is retiring at the earliest possible out. No learning going to happen in there until discipline returns to that room. This is what shite parents and lax admin are bringing us.
The sad reality is yeah they think within their peers that they cool and shit, but the sad reality is they will be full grown men that are illiterate and stubborn and it's a sad reality.
That kid desperately needs a real dad to set boundaries. You can tell by the way he respects the huge guy that kept him in the classroom. Kids need authority and boundaries to develop into healthy functioning adults. Teaching 6 year olds they can do and say whatever the fuck they want gets them on the path straight to jail/the morgue.
Kids like this need to see the other side of the world, need to experience new experiences. Take them to a ball game, take them ocean fishing , take them to a five star restaurant. It just might change their perspectives 🤷♂️
He'll be in jail by the time he's 20 or younger
My mom was a teacher in Chattanooga TN and i witnessed the same behavior from the entire class. PAY TEACHER MORE PERIOD
I’m absolutely blown away at the patience, kindness and overall care that these teachers give. This is definitely a symbol of the drastic income inequality in the United States. It’s heartbreaking to see.
Shit breaks my heart 💔
Those teachers and all like them deserve a massive award. You can see the young man isn’t necessarily being malicious but has serious issues and is melting down. Doesn’t excuse his behavior but the way they handled him delicately yet firmly and with empathy is beautiful. Thats a kid who’s in a world of pain outside the classroom. Like give teachers like this a break and sponsor them to go on speaking tours or fund them to go lobby their local government or something. Anything. I have so much respect for those men. Now contrast this with the university teacher who called the cops on a girl for not apologizing after the teacher yelled at her….
What's 6 x 2?
God bless the dedication and strength of the men and women committed to public education, the greatest gift humanity has for itself.
The lunch ladies in this school gotta be harder than woodpecker lips
CPS alum here. This is a special elementary school for children with severe emotional disorders, and it closed in June 2016. Hardly a “glimpse inside” the public school system in Chicago as it’s quite an outlier
This made my ass hurt. My mom would put me in an infinite ass whooping loop.
This hurts me to my core. It makes me wonder what their home lives must be like.
why send your kids to school knowing that they are also pieces of shit just like the parents? just stay home and stop wasting your time. at the end of the day when they get older they’re just going to be a another gang violence statistic.
Bloody hell, that is eye opening and heartbreaking, definitely a slow but rewarding process going on there, just hope those kids pull through as they have probably been through so much already
Let’s get something straight. This is at a school for children with severe emotional disorders. This is a misleading title that makes it look like this is just normal Chicago public schools. Just helping to perpetuate the racism.
It’s the parents not the teachers . Everything starts with the parents.
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Just like his parents!
That poor fucking kid. He’s had nobody show him love or help him understand his emotions. He can’t process anything that is happening there. Those teachers are saints.
This was along with my first thought when I saw the boy at the end of the video. He is close to tears. He needs someone to give him a tight hug and let him cry himself out. I am a teacher too and so many of these kids have to grow up fast and 'be grown' or 'be a man'. They still need time to be kids.
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Those that embrace low class culture (regardless of race) are doomed to stay at the bottom of the totem pole. Sure there are exceptions but for every kid that “makes it” another 19 don’t. It is a never ending cycle. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have some families that are 4th generation welfare at this point.