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and I don't feel like that.

- He's not safe on that bus.

- I don't, either.

It's hard. It is hard.

And you know what?

This was my day on Thursday.

This is my granddaughter

and her new baby brother.

I'd be sitting there,

crying, just like you

if anything happened

to those two kids.

See my new baby?

We don't want anything

to happen to these babies.

Any of them.

This is totally wrong, totally wrong

that this situation would happen.

Absolutely. But...

It just seems to me,

if it's a few kids, then...

you take away the few kids.

You'll just have to trust me

that we'll take care

of that other child.

And I really am glad you came in.

Come on.

Goodbye, sweetie.

- Thanks again.

- Thank you.

- I'll talk to you later, OK?

- All right.

We're sorry about this,

but we will take care of it.

Wait for your mom.

What did she say

when we were leaving,

"We'll take care of it"? I'm pretty sure

that's what she said in the fall.

Yeah.

She politicianed us.

She'd not gonna do anything.

If something is not done

and the kids don't hear about it,

it will say, "This is fine."

What I'm doing is investigating

what happened to Alex the other day.

- Do you...

- Alex the red...

the red-haired one

or the blond-haired one?

Can you tell me

a little bit about it?

'Cause I don't know,

really, much about it.

I've seen people doing stuff to him,

but I don't know nothing about,

like, what's really been going on.

Have you ever seen

anything happen to him on the bus

that would be considered hurtful?

Not that I know of.

Teddy and other people, like,

call him "fish face" on the bus.

It's jokes and stuff,

and he even laughs about it.

- So, yeah.

- OK.

Hi, Jerry, come on in.

I understand that you

haven't been getting along

very well with Alex Hopkins.

Um, sometimes we have, like,

this kid from the high school

that picks on me and him.

He's kinda chubby.

Do you think that

the bus is very safe, Thomas?

No.

And have you ever hit him?

Yes, I have because

he's really made me mad.

You will not be teasing anybody,

or using bad words.

OK.

You tell me "OK,"

and I'll believe it when I see it.

You will be talking

to Officer Mattus,

and you probably won't be riding

that bus for the rest of the year

if you think that it's OK

for you to hit people.

"Go ahead, hit him,

attack him, do it."

And that's going

in your discipline file.

- OK.

- All right?

I'll be watching you.

What's one thing that you need

to start doing that you haven't done?

- Tell someone.

- Yes.

Do you trust us that we'll

do something when you tell us

that someone's bothering you?

Well, in sixth grade, you...

did nothing about,

Teddy sitting on my head.

- On the bus?

- Yeah, there's, like, a little knob.

Then, once you unlock that knob,

you can, like, lift up the seats.

And he lifted up the seat,

put my head in it, sat on my head.

How do you know

I didn't do anything?

I don't know, 'cause...

Alex, did he sit on

your head after you told me?

- He...

- I did talk to him.

And he didn't do that again, did he?

Come on, pop the trunk.

I'm home! Whoo!

I'm at home!

The house looks so better.

It looks so different.

Ooh!

Ooh-whee.

Mom, the house looks so pretty.

It looks so pretty.

- What?

- It's just like my first time here.

Why do you keep

turning the lights off?

My bad.

"Sometimes sweetness and love

is all you need.

Dear Mother, I want to thank you

for all you have given me:

love, trust, care, help, fun, life.

Happy Mother's Day.

This coupon is good

for one chore.

This coupon is good

for one breakfast in bed.

This coupon is good

for three days of fun."

Kinda sucks that it's Mother's Day.

I don't feel like

a very good mother today.

Come here. Come here.

Alex, he just can't fit in.

He tries.

He just comes across

so weird to people, you know?

What really

ticks me off is, like,

if they got to know him,

he'd probably be the most

devoted friend they ever had.

I'm sure we haven't made

things easier here?

If he came home and told us

this stuff, on a regular basis,

when it happened,

then we would've known.

I imagine

the only thing worse than...

him crying or breaking down

in front of those boys

when they're beating

the crap out of him

is having to come

home and tell you.

He wants to be you.

Never sees you cry.

Well, the next time he's around,

I'm gonna punch you hard

and you start crying.

Um, Mom? Can I ride

my roller skates?

- If you change your pants.

- OK.

If you fall, I don't

want you to rip your slacks.

May I have your attention,

please, for afternoon announcements.

This is the last day

of school for everyone.

And we want to wish you all

a safe, happy, fun summer,

and we can't wait

to see you in the fall.

Why do you always have

your hair like that? Like...

Like, my bangs are weird.

OK.

Hold on, let me get

your shirt still.

- Thank you.

- Hey, can I sign your shirt?

Sure.

Do we get our things today?

What is that?

- I don't know.

- Dumb, probably.

I don't believe in luck,

but I believe in hope.

Right there and right there.

There's the twins right there.

Rebecca...

I can't tell them apart!

There's Fatima, right there.

I asked her if I could

have a dollar at lunch

'cause I wanted to buy a switch,

but she said, "Maybe."

She has a cute nose.

Girls are like candy.

Sometimes you want,

like, a Hershey's bar,

sometimes you want

a Snickers bar.

You can't really tell

which one you want.

Sometimes you want,

like, a popsicle.

It's a complicated feeling.

One more week.

When you look back and you wonder

where the year has gone...

and what it would be like

if Tyler was here.

How would he be?

How much would he have changed?

You just don't know.

Yeah, you know, I went in thinking

it was gonna be a new year,

and people were used to me.

And I went into class, and the class was

already full and I sat down,

and everyone around me

moved seats.

Like every single person.

I was the only one

sitting in a little circle.

That was enough.

Maybe there's another place

I can go try to make a difference.

We've decided, as of this week,

that we've pulled her

out of school here.

I never knew what the saying,

"You don't know what

a person's been through

until you walk a mile

in their shoes."

I never really understood

the depth of that meaning

until I had a gay child.

It has made me completely reevaluate

who and what I am as a human being...

to see the ugliness

that has come out.

It took me a while to realize

that you can't change it all at once.

It's gonna take multiple people,

at separate stages

of people's lives,

talking and making a difference.

It's not just gonna take me.

It's a little one-room schoolhouse

that my grandmother

taught at a long time ago.

And my family's been

out in this area for over 100 years.

Our farm's

a Centennial Oklahoma Farm.

It's Progress.

This is home.

Ty's name is in the foundation

of the house we're living in.

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