@SosTdm617 You are so right about that. He truly does. I recently went back to work and once I pick up a bit, I am definitely going to show him some support. God bless. 😊🙏
Then you realized that not much has changed, life is the same no matter what time period. Blacks still can’t get along, a lot of them don’t take life seriously
In the 8th grade 1978, in a N.Y.C area ghetto, I had the privilege to have an incredible teacher. In those times my classmates were mostly Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and some Whites,esp. those Whites that weren't tolerated in the ' finer ' non ghetto areas. My teachers name was Mr Bonnet and he was a wealthy man who owned a few businesses. He chose the 8th grade strategically because he knew that he could make a difference in guiding students in a better direction. I had strict parents so I wasn't exactly a street hard young man but for the first time in my life he taught me that I had more intelligence than I ever imagined. He was an English teacher and his class wasn't easy but he was able to get all of us involved in ways that are rare - probably - in any school system. Mr Bonnet was, in no way whatsoever, a push over but he was able to synchronize his mind with his heart. I remember a particular day when our class was rowdier than normal: Mr Bonnet stood up and told all the students to stand up and form lines, he placed the metal wastepaper basket on his table and we all looked at each other with some surprise and confusion; then he took a couple of chalk board erasers and told us that we were to shoot them in the basket can. By the time that we finished this ' odd ' activity we sat down and we were all calm and ready to learn. Mr Bonnet was very special, if he still lives he should be very close to his nineties. God bless him.
Damn that poor guy. Wanted to be a teacher his whole life and at the age of 52 he finally goes through with accomplishing that dream... and that class is what he's given, then you also gotta feel bad for the 3-4 students who are actually trying to learn the curriculum
I have been an educator in the public schools of North Carolina for 22 years. Sadly not much has changed since the making of this film! Teachers cannot educate students alone; we must have help from the parents!!! If you are not willing to help educate your own children: don’t have any children! Birth-control is free!!!😤😤😤
The parents are the same as the children. You're never getting the Africa out of them no matter how many programs you run. Africa is both the problem and the solution
Istarted school in 1971 and hated school from 1st through 12th grade. I was picked on and bullied but I learned to read write and learned at least basic math. No one can stop you from learning but yourself.
During this time period many of the young male teachers got into teaching because it was a means to avoid the draft and a ticket to Vietnam. Once the draft was abolished, many of these male teachers left and went into other lines of work mostly finance. On another note. I work as a geriatric social worker in this neighborhood. I wonder how many of these children are my elderly clients today LOL. Great upload as always and many thanks.
Well...during these times I'd love to dodge the draft of a pointless WAR as well, and what better way to do that by serving the community as a teacher? wanting to teach the children. That's honestly a better way of serving your country, teaching disenfranchised inner city kids and trying to prepare them, the nation's future. Now unfortunately, a lot of these children's parents did not care of what their child needs were. They'd just drop their kids off at public school and leave it ALL TO the TEACHERS, with no care in the world about their education, I bet you the mothers who were interviewed in this video clip didn't ask their kids if they needed help with homework. And that's sad. It starts in the home. These teachers tried to do their do diligence, but they get overwhelmed by the lack of home training and lack of parenting, these kids aren't at fault but their parents definitely are. Teachers are supposed to TEACH academics, not mannerisms and social skills, but most teachers still take on the task of doing so.
What I got from this video is that people just HAVE children for the hell of it. With no plan for that child's future, no interest in their needs or social development. Dumb people having children and raising them poorly just creates more problems within the community.
Thank you for all your videos. I am 40 years old and wasn’t even thought of when some of these stories were aired. It’s very……interesting to see how my mom may have grown up and things she and my grandma had to endure during those times. The stories are concerning and some still very relevant during this day and time but I love to see how peop talked and dressed and behaved during those times…..it’s almost like I was there. I watched one the other night with my 23 year old pregnant daughter about unwed teenage girls and fathers not being present. These videos make you think and after seeing how long some of these issues have been a problem, really makes you wonder if things will ever change. There has been change but very little.
@Star hmmm who said my daughter was NOT married?🤔🤔🤔 and I “Let” my 23 year old get pregnant? My daughter is now a grown woman who makes her own decisions…..with her husband lol! Thanks for being stereotypical and assuming/ judging before ASKING. I pray blessings upon you your family and your loved ones. May God give you knowledge wisdom and motivation to maybe say something kind or encouraging to others
You are correct , it the same thing today iam 50 and a Jw things will change only under God government. Did you know the whole theme of the bible is about God government and how God who name is Jehovah and his son Jesus will reverse what has happy in this system of things
This brings back lots of memories when I was growing up in Dallas, TX! Some of teachers in Dallas ISD were good, but the majority of them were there to get paid! The good teachers eventually went to other/better school districts, or they took admin positions at the school administration bldg! I told myself once I had children, I would never put them in a Dallas ISD school & stuck with that!
We learned the most from the teachers we liked the most. Learning the curriculum was a side effect. Fun, personable with a competitive challenge, were the classes where we excelled the most!
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. The young male math teacher had the right idea for teaching these children. The girls singing have beautiful voices.
@@MyFavoriteColorIsBLUEyou can yes but you can only go so far as well. Meaning teachers don't have 24/7 to ensure that one student succeed. They have others kids that wants to learn.
@@Geneiveve In those times detailed fading wasn't common. Most fades were basic bald fades or all even cuts. I'm sure barbers back then could fade but it wasn't nearly as common in those days compared to now.
@@Geneiveve Fades like we know them today didn't get popular until the Late 80's after Cameo's Word Up album was released. A lot of guys took inspiration from Cameo and Kid 'N Play.
So we're looking at educating poor Blacks and Puerto Rican children. Their parents and guardians needed to be educated as well in emphasising the value of learning in their homes so their children are receptive at school.
What if they simply aren't capable. After 60+ years of "tearing down and changing the system" as stated clearly in here by the "experts" perhaps the only conclusion is there is no way. Maybe skip the reading and math and just focus on discipline and a simple trade
This was my junior high school but 30 years later. I went here in the early 90's. I really wish we knew the history during the time. It was a very violent school when I went there.
All this crap starts at home!! I'm 56yrs old and growing up in the hood back then in the early/mid 70's our neighbors took care of eachother. If we were out of line our neighbors got in our asses then our parents would get in that ass. And school was out the question!! You bet not act a fool in class where our parents had to leave work and come to your school....he'll no! Man my parents would hang my ass in space. My neighborhood wasn't really poor but not rich either. Everyone took pride in the neighborhood took care of the lawns and no trash. (pre- crack and Mexican days) after crack and floods of Mexicans into California it was over. I was already grown and moved out but the O.G. owners sold their homes and moved further to the westside of Los Angeles.
The Mexicans ruined your neighborhood? Did you attend school? Considering your terrible ebonics spelling, grammar, and verbiage. It’s quite embarrassing.
Dolemite67, everyone did not take pride in their neighborhoods pre-crack. And before crack there was other drugs. So that's not true. And plenty of people still took care of their neighborhoods in the 80s and 90s.
The technology changed and kids in the 21st Century now have more distractions, noise-makers and bad influences. The display at 7:21 is tame compared to now.
55 years ago. In 1966, my oldest brother would've been about 9, and my 2nd oldest brother would've been about 5. This like now was and is a national issue. I know currently and for some time here in Chicago, University of Chicago and their school of Sociology has been studying Our children and communities for decades. The study continues..............
These are the same issues going on today. Absence of parent involvement in the child’s education is the BIGGEST problem in schools. Notice that there very few, if any fathers being interviewed. When I say parents I mean mothers and fathers but you can’t have that if you keep promoting single parent homes. We are not going to see any improvement until we start fixing the problems in the community, I know that is a very difficult task but it’s true. We need to stop with the lip service and start doing something about poor performance of our children in school and it starts with the parents having a high value for education. Our priorities are mixed up we value sports, music, and entertainment instead of education. We must at some point break this cycle.
You have hit the nail directly on the head. When we not only tolerate, but actually glorify unwed motherhood and reward it with public assistance, the downstream effects of such a seismic cultural shift is precisely what we have seen in this video. These households are failing to socialize and civilize their children. When these children show up to school, they are not fit to receive an education because they are plagued by all sorts of social problems in their homes. These kids can’t calmly sit and concentrate on academic subjects when they live in a war zone. The skills they need to survive in the future (education) are not the skills they need to survive in the present (avoiding conflict and meeting their basic survival needs), and so they assign a lower priority to their education. This is what we see in this video.
@@Anti-IsraeliteDefamationLeague To expand on your point, it’s like having cancer and being inside a house that is on fire. In the long run, it is the cancer that will kill you, but right now, you cannot focus on chemotherapy because the flames are lapping at your feet. You need water right now way more than you need medicine.
55 years later, and nothing has changed. Actually, it has gotten worse. As you can see, the parents are not involved with their children’s education as you can see single mothers, and no fathers in the home. Just like today you have major chaos with children not learning in the public school systems and low income areas. Nothing has changed.
We should have never integrated. We were better off when we had our own schools and our own teachers. I dont see any Jews allowing Nazi's to educate their children and I dont think we should have ever allowed white ppl to educate ours either. Its a conflict of interest.
We need more black male teachers, I can honestly say I did better whenever my teachers were black men , for a few reasons and I'm sure most black men will agree
The best teacher in this was the young Black man. The "experts" and NYU professionals kept trying to re-invent the wheel, he was the only one wise enough to recognize "many of these kids can't recognize a letter why are we worried about chemistry for them". He wanted to focus on socialization, discipline and trades. The rest of the clueless NYU types are talking about getting these kids to do calculus. Just crazy town
@@thegadflygang5381 Realizing calculus proficiency is not obtainable will shake a core leftist belief so hard their their whole world view would crumple. Heads will remain in the sand and accusations of racism will continue forever
I attended urban schools (mixed race ) in the '60s and 70s and the teachers had no problem getting the class under control to teach the day's lesson. The video at 5:39 is chaos!! The teacher has no classroom management control. She is just wasting her time. Most of these kids went on to have a short life span and are now dead due to poor health, drugs, violence. Sad.
Yup!! That's where I got the greatest wisdom of God given common sense in this world with the greatest of love, and the worst of HIS-STORY of lies at the same time, one HELL of balance.
14:20- none of the noble efforts from the beleaguered staff will make any difference whatsoever. Sociologists watching this footage would say it’s all about the culture not the classroom . The culture we’re watching encompasses laziness , ignorance, and illiteracy from the teenage mothers with 6 kids and 6 different fathers . And WHERE ARE THE SCHOOL BOOKS none of them can read or care to read so they had bad lives Shit happens that’s what you get .
Thank God for teachers, these are true teachers that care and really want to teach and make a difference, and these are really young teachers, alot of them likely here today, wonder if the students kept in touch
Seeing this makes me upset because the conditions placed upon society are truly systematic; put in place to not only cause division but to also suppress the "lower half" of society which is actually the majority of the population.
The sad part is, today we act like we didn't understand this a long time ago! Almost as if it disappears because it's not being dragged into the spotlight.
Maybe if city school parents payed the same amount of property taxes as suburban school parents the city school students would have the same education as suburban school kids.
City school students get thousands of dollars more per student than suburban school students and they still can’t measure up. It’s not money, it’s genetics and IQ.
But far worse. You're forgetting that these kids didn't have portable music-players, smartphones and no influence of Hip Hop and Heavy Metal at the time.
Those kids are probably hungry you never know if their home is dysfunctional home life. Possibly substandard housing physical and sexual abuse you name it these kids are dealing with all those problems
@@brunop11 Because it's West Virginia what worked in West Virginia might not work in Newark might not work in New York might not work in Chicago might not work in Alabama right what works on one kid doesn't work on another kid they're all different individuals now don't tell me you're one of those right wing Republicans
@@garyflythe1362 it's all about the parents. The teachers can't be a parent and a teacher. The homelife has to be disciplined and kids need to be taught to respect their elders.
I really feel for the teachers!! How can they be expected to instruct a class affectively when half the students are being do disruptive and could care less about an education?? Just like today a lack of discipline at home means a lack of discipline in school!! If the kids don't have the respect for the teacher or the opportunity for an education they're being given I'd say kick their little asses out and give the other students that do want to learn a chance!!
The children can come from good caring home but they may going through problems.. stress hunger lack of a father lack of critical information.. spiritual support..
I'm from Kentucky. I started 1st grade in a segregated school.. "separate but equal"...not. we'd get books considered slightly use. The books would be missing pages, black marks scribbled on other pages. You'll see schools like this when your tax and property taxes are moved out of the hood.
It's amazing how in the video they portrayed as if it were our fault if we were in ghetto schools when we were placed in these areas with little to no resources and then blamed at a later date. We never asked or requested to come to this country we were brought here as chattel, packages, property, available for sale.. And because of this unwanted arrival this is the end result and it still continues to happen now in modern-day slavery.
Am I the only one that noticed a loop of the same “disruptive background noise” in the classroom? I noticed at 7:16 that it was the same few seconds of noise just looped over and over and over again
Not saying that the white female teacher wasn't a good teacher but there seems to be a radical difference of ability to tolerate them compared to the black male math teacher. I was a good student but felt invisible and not mentored or pushed to my potential. The 1st teacher to really see me and try to develop me was my last high school teacher senior year. The only black teacher I ever had.
Maybe you were lazy and lost, and that last educator woke you up. Interesting that it finally took a fellow African american to reach you and you ignored all your white educators.
I've never had a black teacher. Most NY teachers were Jewish, from the city to the suburbs because I went to both. Only when I went to Catholic School, I had some Italian or Irish teachers.
@@Geneiveve You can't expect ppl that have never treated you right to educate your children. Do you see any Jews allowing Nazi's to educate their children? Integration was a big mistake. We were better off with our own teachers and our own schools. When I was going to school in 90s my favorite teachers were always the Black teachers. I didn't connect with the white ones. A white person couldn't teach me about myself. The only thing they could do was indoctrinate me to be what they wanted me to be.
I was thinking the same thing. It was making it hard to pay attention to. Which I think may be the point. Since it's made back in the sixties, the idea of sound design for film was still in its infant stage. I think it may have been a well-intentioned attempt at making it more realistic and compelling that just didn't work out or someone fell asleep at the console. You can tell that the class rooms are noisy from the film content, but they might not have had much background audio recorded to illustrate it without the loop. Regardless, it's totally distracting, which seems like what the class is like too.
Wow that 52 year old teacher said they put him through a 6 week teachers course to be a teacher???? Wow.. they thought that low of those kids !! That low where they thought they were so dumb that 6 weeks was sufficient enough and nothing more 😅 Wow
Kinda of funny that the same behavior exist today. I know it's a big challenge, but it's a lost cause. Look at the houses where these kids live. Fix the home, the school will heal. You can have the most prestigious school in the world, fill that school with kids from broken homes...that school will die. Like in the 60s, teachers CAN NOT be babysitters. We understand I poverty, mom and dad must work to pay the bills and they don't have time to be involved in their kids' education. So for 8 hrs a day 5 days a week...those kids are at school being babysat. No learn, but a time to play and socialize. The only method of teaching kids that isn't involved being home is disciplinary measures. Mandating a kid to attend classes that are taught military style. Boot camp style from ages 12 to 18. It does work. Not only they get a quality education but life skills and trade skills.
Enough, is there a report on the Ghetto , poor, white dirty, unlearned kids from the Appalachia. How dare you use disparaging words and talk down about these children. Most of you had your ideas and biases about them already 😮
Hard believe that you could see that kind of disruptive children in those times where we believed that students were more adjusted to rules. However we see a very different reality on this documental. It seemed a class from the ninetees. Im a educational psychologist and teacher, and it would have been hard for me to control those children
The problem is the system built outside of school. You won’t fool these kids into thinking or believing fairytales when they look out their windows and see they’re being disenfranchised. Tear all that ish up 🤷🏿♂️
A good example of the inability to learn which has many root causes. In recent years there has been an effort to bring ghetto children , now called those below the poverty level , into a more suitable environment for early training called the Head Start Program began 1965. A similar program of a different name was attempted to bring Native American children into a modern world. Most children in this environment tollorate education as a temporary inconvenience unless they see a value of learning and changing damaging behavior...We have made progress ... The struggle continues...In current times , rioting and protests in the streets destruction of private property is destroying all civilized progress. Similar to the Native American revolts of the late 1800's and similar destruction of property. Whereas, a better choice will be fighting it in the courts as a civilized society and one that is more respected.
*Are you talking about the same "Native Americans" whose CHILDREN were found SLAUGHTERED underneath the Christian boarding school by the hundreds? Or the "Black" CHILDREN who were brought over here on SLAVE SHIPS and STRIPPED of their CULTURE?*
It appears that some of the sounds are looped in the classroom to seem loud and chaotic. I wonder why the editor did that. I also wonder how loud or quiet or chaotic it really was when originally filmed.
If that's all you got out of the documentary thats a damned shame. Any educator or administrator knows very well what goes on the ghetto schools. That documentary is a horror show that is very real and is happening today. Nothing has changed. The kids are learning nothing and they are out of control. Yes, the classroom is loud and chaotic. That is a fact and you are in denial because you think that white people are lying about the state of black children.
@laporcshiawinfield6908 I agree. It's hard to believe that a teacher, staff and kids would act like that...knowing they are going to have a news crew documenting for an extended period of time, or even 1 days worth. Ppl would have wanted to put their best foot forward in that scenario, unless they are told otherwise to simply, put on a show = good ratings. The mainstream media, as we've known it in the past 5 + decades, is actively agitating for drama which = 'a' great story, but not 'the' story. Plus, thx to Mr. H's great channel plus some other channels, will show raw news footage and the newscasters 'coach' and or wait til they get the intended responses, clip and produce. It really opened my eyes as to how fake so much news truly is, was and has molded so many of us to just go along believing these mostly false narratives. They use a kernel of truth.
Im watching this story and from the beginning the teachers are doomed from the start due to there methodology. First, you cannot teach students of any nature by just standing there talking. Where are the textbooks? Where is the teaching structure, the basics of learning starts with reading textbooks in every subject.
