Detachment Page #3
Okay?
Can I go now?
I supposed you can, I mean.
If we're done.
Are we done?
- We're done.
- We're done.
Another student saved.
Come out of
the bathroom, grandma!
Come on granma,
open the door.
Hi, grandpa.
Grandpa.
Grandpa.
You okay?
What is it, grandpa?
It's Henry, grandpa.
Grandpa, it's Henry.
- Who?
- Are you in pain?
No, no. I ...
I pissed myself.
Come on, grandma,
open the door!
Excuse me
Excuse me
- Can you come in here please?
- We have a little accident?
- Yes
- You should ... haa..
- Do you wanna? - No, no.
- See, we're taking care of it.
See? You're okay.
- You right? - Are you doin'
any writing, grandpa?
In journals?
No, my life ...
My life isn't worth memoires.
It's ok, it's okay.
I didn't wanna to go
out like this.
I hate being a burden.
You're not a burden.
Okay?
You're not a burden.
Sure. You...
You like coming here, eh?
Your mother came by today.
Have you spoken to her lately?
No.
Now, you tell her
I'm fine?
You always say you're fine, but
I know you hide things from me.
You've always been closed off.
Ever since you were a kid.
Why is that?
Why?
Ah, you're upset. I shouldn't
- I don't mean to make you...
- You haven't upset me, grandpa.
It's that I don't wanna
talk about the past.
You and I remember it
very differently.
Get rest, O.K?
Close your eyes. I'm here.
- I am in here with you
- When you stop coming, Henry
I'll die.
F***.
You got a smoke?
No, I don't have a smoke.
Where did you go, eh?
- What are you gonna do now?
- What are you gonna do, little kid?
I don't know.
Can you lend me ten bucks?
Come on, man I'm hungry.
I may have something
to eat at my place.
Come in, wash your hands.
There's soap over there.
Sit down.
Really nice place you got.
Thanks.
- You got anything stronger?
- Eat your sandwich.
Hey, hold on man!
- It's a 100 bucks.
- Relax...
What?
- Have you been raped recently?
- What do you care?
I'm not sure
that I do particulary.
Find and put something on it.
Look, I gotta get back.
Back?
Back where?
Listen, buddy,
If you don't got the
money it's cool. I mean,
I like you.
I'll blow you for 50?
Listen to me,
knock off the bullsit, okay?
Come in the bathroom.
It's gonna sting a little bit.
Why are you doing this?
Take a shower
- This is fresh towel.
- Thanks.
Go to sleep.
Hello, this is Dr. Parker
My son's ADHD and I looked it up
online, and that's what hes' got.
Now you gotta
get im a free laptop.
Mr. Kevin, your son Oliver
injured a student.
His problems are behavioral.
Hey, my kid's got a disability
and he's not learning anything,
and this is your fault!
Hey, hey...
What are you doing?
What is the matter with you?
As it is, our resources emaciated.
that need my attention.
He's always mad all the time because
he's not getting the services he needs.
No Child Left Behind
promises me my rights.
You'll be hearing from
my lawyer. - Mr...
Hey, what are you doing?
What is this?
What is this? Funny? Get to
class. Get to class right now.
What's the joke?
I don't get the joke. Huh?
Is this funny? Does that
look good to you?
You like hurting animals? Huh?!
Is that what you like to do?
Answer me! You like hurting
animals? You like this?!
Come here. Go.
Lets go. Come on.
Walk
Mr. Raymond, the studies
have shown that kids
who are prone to hurting
animals at an early age
eventually fall into a
high percentage of adults
who may fail to develop even
the most basic feeling for people.
Raven.
How do you feel about this?
I feel ...
Trapped.
Like the cat.
F***.
Who are you? Why?
Did you pay?
Did you pay her?
- Yeah alright, here...
- Pay her!
- Alright, here, take...
- What are you paying me for, huh?!
It wasn't in my mouth!
Get f*** out of here.
Get out of here! F***!
Don't hurt me!
Here ...
Change your sheets!
How do you do it kid?
Please don't be mad at me.
I am not mad at you.
Don't think about
leaving me.
I won't do it anymore,
I promise.
You don't need to promise me.
Okay don't promise to me.
Whatever it is, you feel
you need to do, you do it.
But you don't do it here!
Okay?
What are you doing there?
Don't you knock?
What is all this supposed to be?
Your tortured soul?
Why don't you paint
something cheerful?
Like happy with colors.
Whadya want from me dad, besides
for me to have been born with a penis.
I don't work all day
to have my night ruined
by your teen angst.
???
I am not goin' to support you
and your little creative habits!
Okay? I've had it with all
of all your little art projects
that are going nowhere!
You always know
what to say, dad.
Now, if you cleared...
and lost some weight
you could attract
a nice boys, who knows.
There should be
a prerequisite,
curriculum for being an parent,
Don't try this at home.
Take these.
What are those?
You're supposed to ask me
before you take them.
They're vitamins,
and Aspirin.
At some point
At some point.
Why are you crying on the bus?
Go to sleep.
A friend of yours?
A friend.
Oh...No, no...
He was ....
Total a**hole.
What was his problem?
did not choose him.
And then he spent his
whole career
"casting pearls before swine",
He talked like that...
The child-hater, basically.
He tried to purge Steinbeck and
Faulkner from required reading list.
Well, let it be said from
the safety of his sabbatical,
You can do no more harm.
How did he die?
Who knows, and who cares.
"Hello"
"It's drudgery, this life"
"and retention"
"suspension, expulsion"
"staff meetings"
"The Papers cuts"
"The vacant parents"
"Their vicious kids"
"Theye're the dreads
of the pain"
"They spat on my soul"
"This humiliation will stop"
"Discipline must be restored,
these kids have us on the run."
" We're the ones on trial!"
" It's f***ing madness! "
"Like every child has value? "
a private education"
"F***ing kids who have
no desires,"
"no fire..."
"No minds to be..."
" Assimilate "
What does that mean?
To take something in.
OK, excellent. To absorb.
" Ubiquitous "
Anyone?
Everywhere, all the time.
So what...
"ubiquitous assimilation"
Always absorbing everything
everywhere all the time.
Well done, George.
How are you
to imagine anything,
if the images are always
provided for you?
Who here had read
"1984" last year?
Good.
Anyone?
Meredith.
Having two opposing
beliefs at once.
Believing that both are true.
Excellent.
Why do you always suck
his dick, you f***in' kiss-ass?
To deliberately believe in lies
while knowning they're false.
Examples of this
in everyday life:
Oh, I,
need to be pretty
to be happy.
I need surgery
to be pretty.
I need to be thin
Famous
Fashionable
Our young men,
today,
are being told that women
are whores;
b*tches, things to be screwed,
beaten,
sh*t on,
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