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Oh, I don't know.

- Which is it?

- It's by your right hand.

Your other right hand.

(ALL LAUGHING)

Thank you.

(SNORING)

No calculators, Ms. Mason.

A "B" becomes a "C,"

remember, with a calculator.

What is this, summer camp?

Please, please.

Everybody has their own paper.

Come on, Danny, you forgot

to carry over...

(SCREAMING)

All right, everybody. Stay put.

Please! Please let me go!

Somebody, please! Somebody!

(STUDENTS CLAMORING)

Alex! Alex!

Get him off me!

Get him off me!

Get him off me! Get him off me!

He's crazy. He's crazy!

Dues are not being paid here, people.

Let's try and bring

those delinquent ones up to date,

or we're gonna have to take action.

A union cannot be run on just

good intentions alone.

We need cold hard cash.

I want you to know that as your union rep,

I'm on top of this.

They want us here at 7:35.

We're gonna hold firm until we get 7:38.

Now, these are our three minutes

and we will get it.

And if we were a private school

then we wouldn't have to depend

on a bond issue for our salary.

How do you spell tardiness?

L-a-t-e.

MALLOY:
Now, about this court-case thing.

Well, all I know is that now

they're gonna take depositions here.

So, we have to change

our strategy on that point.

What strategy?

Remember, whatever they don't find out

can't hurt us.

- Did anybody really vote for this guy?

- I know.

Alex, please, I wanna hear this.

I don't care

what anybody else says about this,

we're gonna stick together with the union.

I get the feeling I interrupted something.

Just Malloy, addressing the Reichstag.

Oh, say, Alex. Remember this student

you once had about 10 or 12 years ago?

- Her name is Lisa Hammond.

- Lisa Hammond?

Oh, yeah. Bright kid. Great ass.

Yes. Well, nothing's changed.

Really? She's here?

Yeah.

But get this, she's working for the law firm

that's handling the Calvin case.

She's taking depositions here.

Starting tomorrow.

In fact, she's taking your deposition

in two and a half weeks.

I knew we should have flunked her.

You know what you're gonna say?

You're not gonna betray old JFK, are you?

Oh, come on, for Christ's sake, Roger.

That'd be like shitting on the Peace Corps.

You haven't lived till you see them

try to serve me with a subpoena.

- Oh, here.

- What's this?

Well, I tell you, Alex. You heard about

Ditto and Theresa Bloom, right?

- Yeah, which version?

- Yeah.

With our psychologist on temporary

leave and no money to replace her,

I gotta have somebody to take over

the counseling chores.

Me? Why me?

- Because you're sensitive.

- Oh, that's bullshit.

- You're compassionate.

- Bullshit, Roger.

- You're caring.

- Bullshit.

You've got a free period.

Well, so does everybody else in here.

And the teachers in the next period

are gonna have a free period too,

for Christ's sake.

And they'll be drafted too.

Alex, we have a lot

of misunderstood youth in this place.

Now, everybody's got to pitch in.

Starting with you.

- How many kids is this?

- One.

- One?

- Name's Eddie Pilikian.

He and his parents are gonna be

at the counseling office

in about 10 minutes.

- All right.

- Now, I know you'll do well.

- One kid?

- Yeah.

WOMAN:
All right.

Sit. Right there. Right there.

Oh, Mr. Rubell!

Superintendent Burke is in

the conference room with Principal Horn.

Great.

I mean, just what the hell

are you guys running here,

a goddamn zoo?

I'm in the middle

of a fund-raising breakfast

and I'm informed

that your school psychologist

has flipped out in the middle

of your goddamn office.

And then I get here and I find out

there has been a stabbing.

And if that's not enough, one of your kids

tries to eat one of your

goddamn teachers.

Mr. Rubell, what the hell do you call that?

Monday.

Look, Dr. Burke, whatever happens here,

I'm taking care of it.

Are you also taking care

of the lawsuit here, too?

You do know we're being sued, don't you?

- Yes, I do.

- Oh, you do? Good for you!

- Dr. Burke, I don't think you really...

- I know. I know.

I...

I understand your problem, all right?

But you sure as hell

better understand mine!

I am fighting for our survival out there.

We cannot let the things that happened

here today circulate around the city.

We have got to control the publicity.

Or else this community

is gonna lose faith in us

and we won't get the new

bond issue passed

and that means no money.

No money means no school.

Do I make myself clear?

Absolutely.

All right, I've asked Alan Lewis,

our attorney, to be here

to help us on this matter.

First of all, I wanna know who

is on our team,

and I wanna know

who is going to rock the boat.

And most importantly,

we all have to agree on what's to be said

at these depositions.

Well, very well.

What would you like me to do?

Well, I have taken the liberty

of having your secretary pull the file

of the remaining teachers involved.

I would like to go over them.

All right. The first one is Kenneth Stiles.

No. Stiles has no problem.

School line all the way.

Then of course there's Principal Horn

and myself.

Yes, of course. What's that one?

Alex Jurel, social studies.

Yeah, Alex. I don't see any problem there.

Oh, really? "1969, started free school.

"Strong advocate of students' rights.

"Reading program canceled in 1974

due to lack of funds.

"Excellent leadership qualities."

This sounds like trouble to me.

No. No, that was over 10 years ago.

Alex and I did all those things

when we started. Now look at me.

No, Alex is all right now.

Why, hell, if they hold a deposition

on a Monday, he might not even show up.

(CHUCKLES)

Mr. and Mrs. Pilikian. Alex Jurel.

No, I'm Jeffrey Propes,

Mrs. Pilikian's attorney.

Oh, really?

Oh, what did he do this time?

No, I'm here in regards

to Mrs. Pilikian's recent divorce.

Oh, okay. I see.

Eddie, would you wait outside.

Mr. Jurel, Mrs. Pilikian has just

been through a very trying...

Excuse me, one minute.

Well, as you can see here

in regards to custody,

Mrs. Pilikian enjoys full rights...

Mr. Pilikian will of course

be allowed to see Eddie

under certain conditions

and with Mrs. Pilikian's approval.

Excuse me, one minute.

Why are you telling me this?

Because we want to make it clear

that Eddie's father is not to see him

during school hours

nor is he to attempt

to pick Eddie up from school.

Mrs. Pilikian, I'm sorry you have problems,

but we're here to talk about Eddie.

He's been kicked out of his third class.

He reads at a sixth-grade level

and he's majoring in detention.

Now, don't you think

that's just a little bit more important?

It's very important to Mrs. Pilikian

that we first settle this custody problem.

Now, she hasn't been able to function

in full capacity since the divorce.

I think we've said our piece.

Mrs. Pilikian, don't you care

about your son's education?

Isn't that your job, Mr. Jurel?

(DOOR CLOSING)

Eddie. Come on in here.

Eddie, in.

Sit down.

- Read that.

- Do what?

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