Dangerous Minds Page #7

in aisle three, please?

Be right there. I'm telling you,

this place would fall to pieces

if it wasn't for me.

You know, Callie,

just between you and me,

with your scores, I think you should

consider going into Advanced English.

- Oh, but I'm gonna be at Clearview.

You didn't know?

- No.

You didn't see my record?

I tell you.

No, l... I didn't know.

- Bye now.

- Yeah.

In the middle of a semester?

Are... Are you moving?

No. I'm pregnant.

And since I'm startin' to show,

they thought it was time, you know?

- Who thought it was time?

- The school. They don't let you

stay there if you're pregnant.

But they told me they have this

really good program at Clearview

for, like, teenage mothers.

And they teach you stuff like parenting

and nutrition, all kinds of stuff.

So I thought it would

be good for me, you know?

- Yeah.

- Aisle three.

"Degrade first the arts

if you'd mankind degrade."

Hey, that's the spray can poem.

- Hey, hey, what's the code word?

- The code word is "great rides

and great prizes."

I'm keeping it undercover

But comin'soon, I surmises

Does anybody know where, um,

Durrell and Lionel are today?

- Durrell and Lionel.

- No.

- They around.

Yeah, so what's the prize we're

gonna get for learning this poem?

Learning is the prize.

Yeah.

Knowing how to read something

and understand it is the prize.

Okay? Knowing how to think

is the prize.

- I know how to think right now.

- Okay. Well, yeah, well,

you know how to run too.

But not the way you could run

if you trained.

You know, the mind is like a muscle.

Okay? And if you want it to be really

powerful, you got to work it out. Okay?

Each new fact

gives you another choice.

Each new idea builds

another muscle, okay?

And it's those muscles that are

gonna make you really strong.

Those are your weapons,

and in this unsafe world...

I want to arm you.

- And that's what these poems

are supposed to do?

- Yeah.

Hey, try it. You're just

sittin' here anyway.

Look. Okay.

If at the end of the term,

you're not faster, stronger

and smarter,

you will have lost nothing.

But if you are,

you'll be that much tougher

to knock down.

So what's "Hire idiots to paint

with cold light and hot shade"?

They're being sarcastic, Raul.

I mean, 'cause you know that light

is supposed to be warm, right?

- And shade is supposed to be what?

- Cold?

Exactly. But if you go

and hire an idiot to do the job,

he's gonna do it backwards.

- Hello.

- There you go.

- Hmm.

Don't make a big fuss

about this, Louanne.

You have to help me. You have

no idea how bright this girl is.

Yes, I do. And there's nothing

I can do about it.

Oh! That just makes me crazy!

What right do these miserable,

self-righteous sons of b*tches

from the Board of Education...

have to make a moral judgment

on Callie Roberts?

- Do you know...

- Louanne, there are parents

in the next room.

Look, I don't c...

I'm gonna fight this ruling.

I'm gonna write an open letter

to every newspaper condemning

the entire School Board.

- Oh, you can't do that.

- Why not?

Well, first of all,

the Board has nothing to do with it.

We prefer that these girls go to

the mother-to-be program at Clearview.

Oh, wait a minute.

You mean this isn't a rule?

You mean this is your preference?

Well, yes.

You mean Callie Roberts is free

to go to any school she wants?

- Including this one?

- Unless she's absent

for more than 30 days.

And then she has to wait

until the baby's born

before she can come back here.

But, Louanne, once these girls

have babies, very few of them

come back to school anyway.

I see.

So you make them think

they have to leave.

You just push 'em out a little earlier,

make it a little harder,

make it a little more hopeless.

I do what I have to do...

because it is dangerous

to have a pregnant girl in a classroom.

It's not a warning, Louanne. L-It's

prestige, it's stardom, it's attention.

You know, not all these girls

become pregnant by accident.

- Pregnancy is contagious.

- Yep, yep

- It's all right

- It's all right

As you may have heard

- Yeah

- To smoke a fat one

- To smoke a fat one

- And drink a 'Bird

- Drink a Thunderbird

- It's okay

- It's okay

- To play this loud

- Play it loud

Mister DJ, don't mean

to sweat you down

Who is it?

It's Louanne Johnson,

Callie's second period teacher.

Hi.

Um, Callie's getting ready

to go to work.

- Come on in.

- Thank you.

Curiosity killed the cat

- Oh.

- Hi.

- Hi, there.

- What you doing?

- Watching TV.

- What's your name?

- Tyeisha.

- Oh, that's a pretty name.

- She just love her TV.

Why ain't you in bed?

Come here, baby.

Callie? Honey?

Your teacher's here.

- Hi.

- Hi.

I'm sorry to just bust in

on you like this, but I have

the most wonderful news...

and I wanted to come

tell you personally.

You do not have to go

to Clearview.

There is nothing in the rules

that says you can't stay

exactly where you are.

But, uh, she already

enrolled in Clearview.

Uh, well, that's all right.

She... that... But she doesn't

have to go there.

Yeah, but Kimboley wants me

to take the mother-to-be program

at Clearview, you know.

He thought it would be a good

idea if I learned how to take

care of the baby and stuff.

I don't understand.

Do you not want to stay

at Parkmont?

Well, yeah, but I gotta learn

how to take care of us, you know.

I mean, we're getting our own

place and everything, so...

Callie, just don't throw away

all you can become.

Kimboley was so right.

He was so right.

He told me that you'd probably

try to talk me out of this.

You want to know

what else he said?

He said that you probably

don't even like men...

and that you're probably not married

and you don't want anybody else to be.

That's why you're always

in everybody else's life.

Look, I'm not saying

that I agree with him, okay?

Well, Kimboley's wrong.

I was married...

and I was pregnant.

So what happened?

We got divorced...

and I had an abortion.

He beat me.

Well, sometimes

you start out wrong...

and just keep going.

Hey, don't touch me.

Oh, get outta here!

I'll see you.

You took something that

f***in' belonged to me, se.

Man, she came to me

with open arms.

Besides, you gotta have

one of these.

You're dead.

As I walk through the valley

of the shadow of death

I take a look at my life

and realize there's nothing left

'Cause I've been blastin'

and laughin'so long

That even my mama thinks

that my mind is gone

I really hate to trip

but I gotta loc

As they croak I see myself

in the pistol smoke

Fool, I'm the kind of"G"

the little homies wanna be like

On my knees in the night

sayin'prayers in the street light

Been spendin'most their lives

livin'in a gangsta's paradise

- Hey, Miss Johnson.

- Hey!

- Been spendin'most their lives

- Haven't seen you guys in a week.

- Livin'in a gangsta's paradise

Thought maybe you got lost

on your way to class.

I wanted to help you

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