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ashamed.

This is a marketing holocaust.

for the rest of our lives,

the powers that be

are hard at work

dumbing us

to death.

So, to defend ourselves

and fight against assimilating this

dullness into our thought processes,

we must learn to read

to stimulate our own imagination;

to cultivate

our own consciousness,

our own belief system.

We all need these skills

to defend

to preserve

our own minds.

Very carefully, it's perfect.

Great.

Let me have a look.

You just made your own...

- Wow. I don't care what

they say, you're doing great.

I had hard time with

math too. It takes time.

Wow, that is damn cool.

Hi guys.

Thank you for staying late,

all 15 or 20 of you.

Today we'll be presented

with a new course work

engineered to boost

State exam performance,

as mandated by

"No child had left behind".

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,

it is my pleasure to be here.

I've come today with some

edifying materials

to help your matriculating and

non matric students

to better prepare for the

upcoming State Exams this May.

Let me start by stating

I love teachers.

I love what you do,

what you stand for.

You guys are the real heroes.

Now, the one thing I've learned

in all my years in the private sector,

is that

real estate generates revenue

And merchanting property values

will be this school's saving grades.

But your school's

low test scores

are bringing down the whole re-sale

value in this neighborhood

during the market already in decline.

We gotta get the scores up -

new families in our district

and more motivated

kids in the school.

And I am not placing any blame

Excuse me, are you here

to sell some tests material

or to air your concerns

as a property owner?

Listen, umm ... I am curious

Are you givin' away pop-corn with

this crap that you're pushing?

This faculty has spent their lives

on the boards, and now you tell us

that our careers are

about re-sale value.

- Bullshit !

- Give him hell lady ...

- Storm the game.

- Don't oversimplify it, mam.

That's a hazard you

can't afford.

This sounds like a threat.

- Could you please sit down?

That's enough.

Could you please sit down?

Can we have some

order here, please.

Dr. Heart was right.

- This school's the pride of

the district. - Can you get back, pal?

Could you finish your pitch,

we'd like to go home?

What's you hurry, hon?

You gotta...

So enjoy running this relic

for a few more months.

You're a fossil when

you're f***ing done.

You're dread going home?

Frankly, I don't know what to do

with myself when I'm not in my classroom.

So, Friday afternoons

I am afraid to go home.

Afraid of all that time alone.

Yeah.

- My mother hates

my father passionately...

...watches a lot of TV

...the only time that I don't feel

- I teach for selfish reasons...

- My mother was in Mac Madisson

...I need a control

- I need those kids more than...

- Its the moments in school...

It must be like

...best teacher I ever had...

So what's your story?

My story?

I'm just ... I'm just taking

one thing at a time.

Why are you wasting your life?

You know...

I teach every day, I mean...

You don't really know me.

So what happened to you?

You don't want something

more permanent?

- Hi

- Where have you been?

What? I was out.

- With a colleague.

- The boy or girl?

A woman.

You make me feel so stupid.

Why are you treating me like a kid?

- Because you're a kid.

I am sorry.

I wasn't expecting this.

All you had to do was tell me

you were gonna be home later.

Back up, alright?

I'm not beholden to you, okay?

I mean, you're welcome

to stay here, but

you know, you don't get to

have expectations of me, alright?

This is a temporary thing, you ...

you're able to stay here, but ...

eventually you're gonna

have to go, you understand?

- I think it is important...

- It's clear.

I get it, you want

me to go now?

I got better to do

than clean up the stuff.

I can't believe you made dinner.

With what?

Goceries, from the goceries store.

Wow, it's really nice kid.

It's been long time since

somebody cooked me.

Thank you Erica.

We all have problems, we all

have things that we're dealing with.

And we all ...

Take them home with us at night,

take them to work

with us in the morning.

I think that helplesness, that

realization, that foreboding of

being a drift in the sea,

with no

no bowie, no saftey, when you

thought you'd be the one.

throwing the bowie.

Hi...

- Anything for dinner?

- Tell me all about it from the beginning -

- You don't care.

- Oh no ...

so much, and well.

You are so condescending.

Give me a kiss.

Come on.

We'll solve everything.

- Come on

- Stop it.

Do you remember when

I bought you this?

The beautiful summer in Venice

before our travells were

resigned to reviving old passions.

" You suck! "

- Bloody?

- Yeah

- Grandpa, you doing any writing

of your journal? - No...

I don't remember much.

I lost the habbit. You

can't think in this place.

You can't make new memories.

Thank you.

- You alright?

- What?

- You see me?

- You see me standing here?

Yes, I see you.

Oh God, its so relentless.

Thank you.

" Carol, there is no nice way

for me to do this."

"I spoke with the Superintendent"

"He's agreed to let you

out the rest of the year "

" It is where it is."

"Take your pension..."

Haven't you ever had enough.

Havent' you ever just wanted

to tell someone to f*** off.

I think I am sick.

- Why?

- I crossed the line today.

I mean the whole...

the whole thing is f***ed.

Whole thing is f***,

is it not?

What's up, Dr.Parker?

Can we get over it?

I got sh*t to do.

What are your plans after High School

since you're not going to college?

I don't know.

Hanging out with my boyfriend.

Do some modelling sh*t...

- Be in my friend's band.

- I have your 10-week grade report

Do you know what it says?

Fail, Fail, Fail

- F, F, F

- F, F, F yah.

You know what that means?

It mean you don't care.

You're brilliant.

Can I go now?

Oh god, you are a shallow

disgusting creature.

You want to know the truth?

One, you're not gonna be in a band

or an Model Missy,

because you have no ambition.

With no skills, you'll be competing

with the 80% of the U.S. workforce

for a minimum wage job

which you'll work at

for the rest of your life

til you're replaced by a computer.

- I don't care

- Two...

The only talent you'll ever have

is getting men to f*** you.

Your life will basically

become a carnivall of pain.

Now, when you can't stand it

not one more day,

not one more hour,

it will get worse,

much worse!

Every day I come into this office and

listen to you kids sh*t all over yourselves!

It's so easy to be careless. It takes

courage to take care.

Not that you have any

of those qualities.

- Get out! Just get out!

Get out! - F*** You!!!

- I am a total burn out.

- You are not.

- I am. - I mean I don't know how

you make it through the day.

Listen, seriously why do you

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