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- Yeah.

- Henry! Henry!

- Come on.

- No! No! ...

- Things will be okay.

Don't do this.

- You gonna be okay.

- No! No! No!

No! ...

Well ... I feel

just awful for her.

- For who?

- For our school.

It may sound strange but I've always

felt that the school had a spirit.

It's not just an budgetful buildings,

but they're alive.

I just can't understand it.

Where are all the parents?

I don't know.

I was in my room for two

hours and saw one parent.

Where are they?

Where is everybody?

- We don't know.

- It's uncanny.

No air raid sirensl

No bombs.

It doesn't happen that way.

It starts in whisper,

then nothing.

We had our music once,

didn't we?

Yes, we did.

Do you remember those nights

we only had two parents at a time?

And then there were more,

there were many more

waiting in the waiting rooms.

And halls were full of joy and

celebration. Now, it's nothing.

Rememberance. The things passed.

I actually felt quite at home.

There were no parents.

I thought how appropriate.

It was like, a moment of insight

the reality of the f***ing

problem in the first place.

Some of us believe that

we can make a difference.

And sometimes we wake up

and we realize we've failed.

Hi it's Gretchen

calling from the Clinic,

Erica Loius has her

test results back.

Please give us a call

at your earliest convenience.

Thank you.

" - You have good parents "

" - B*tch you shut up. "

"A Mother of mine gave her ... "

" A Diet B*tch! "

" ha ha...ha ha ... ha ha"

" What is all this supposed to be?

Your tortured soul?"

" - I won't stand that, Dad! "

" - Paint something more cheerful ..."

" We have to pay us our lives ..."

" Grow like your hair, lost some weight"

" It'll all be okay "

- Good morning!

- Good morning.

Before we take roll,

I want to tell you that today

will be my last day with you.

You're gonna have

a permanent teacher on Monday.

- Where are you going, Mr. Barthes?

- I'll go to another school.

- We will miss you, man.

- Yeah?

All those teachers in

this place... They're d*ckheads.

Don't you get tired of

moving around all the time?

It's how my job works. I come

in here for a period of time,

so you don't have twnenty

subs in and I'm outa here,

and then, you have a

permanent teacher come in

and I leave.

Attention to all teachers, this is an special

announcement from the Principle's Office.

There will an all faculty meeting

today, during nutrition"

Student nutrition will be extended

a ten minutes, thank you.

I invited you here today

to discuss the status things.

I know that there wasn't ...

I know that there isn't ...

- I am sorry ...

- We all need something,

to destract us from the

complexity and reality.

More or less to think about

where that came from?

No one wants to think about

the struggle that it takes

to become somebody

to get out of

... to get out of the ...

the sea of pain that,

we all have to get out of.

- Hi Meredith.

- Hi.

Haven't seen you

in class lately?

Where have you been?

- Baking.

- I see.

- I am happy I get to see you.

Today is my last day.

How ironic!

Listen, I was thinking,

I bought this for myself, but

maybe you could make

better use of it.

- I like that one the best.

- You can't have that one.

It's mine.

But, can you have this one?

- It's better for you anyway.

- Thanks.

I am sorry.

If I hurt you

in any way, I um ...

I know that its tough

right now, for you,

but it's not always gonna be this...

- Goodbye Mr. Barthes.

Goodbye Meredith.

They say that suicide is a permanent

solution to the temporary problem.

I'll let you know?

My name is Meredith and

I wanted to kill myself.

Meredith!

No!

Henry!

It's gonna be O.K.

It's gonna be O.K.

It's gonna be O.K.

We have such a responsibility to guide

our young so that they don't end up

falling apart.

Falling by the way side.

Becoming insignificant.

I realized something today.

I'm a non-person, Sarah.

You shouldn't be here.

I am not here.

You may see me,

but I'm hollow.

Failing. We're failing.

Failed in a sense that we

have let everyone down.

Including ourselves.

When you're walking down

the hallway, or in your classroom,

how many of you

have ever felt the weight

pressing down on you?

I have.

Everyone?

Wow!

Poe wrote about these

things over a 100 years ago.

So, as we read

we can see that

"The House of Usher"

is not merely an old

decrapped castle...

It is also a state of being.

" During the whole of dull, dark and soundless day "

" In the autumn of that year, when the clouds

hung oppressively low in heavens, "

" I had been passing alone, on the horseback, "

" Through the singularly dreary tract of country; "

" and at length found myself as

the shades of evening dew on, "

" within view of the melancholy House of Usher "

" I know not how it was "

" But, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of

insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit "

" I looked upon the simple landscape features of the domain "

" Upon the bleak walls, upon a few

white trunks of decayed trees "

" With an utter depression of soul "

" There wasn't an iciness "

" A sinking."

" Sickening of the heart. "

" Detachment "

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