Walkout Page #4

That's what people do--

they wait.

Come on.

Let's go.

Mr. Hurley, come on.

Give the guy a break.

Rodriguez, this doesn't

concern you.

He didn't hurt anything.

He won't do it again.

- Right, payaso?

- Scout's honor.

Hey, come on,

let us handle it.

All right.

Everybody listen up.

Don't pee in the bushes.

All right?

Okay.

Open the bathrooms.

Yeah.

Are you guys

tired of this?

About how we're being

treated in school?

Well, we might have

something to change it.

- What is that?

- It's a survey.

It asks questions about our schools

and the way we're being treated.

We're hoping it will

make a difference.

- Can I see one?

- Yeah.

"Are you made to feel

ashamed of your heritage?"

Can I fill one out?

Yeah.

- Gimme one of those.

- Here.

- I want one. I want one.

- You guys can all fill them out.

We can change this.

Try to fill these out and get them

back to us as soon as you can.

Here you go.

Try to fill these out.

Please fill out a survey

and return it to me.

- Here, fill out a flyer.

- Everybody take a survey

to evaluate our high school.

People of our school

are supposed to fill out this survey.

It's a survey about

our education. Brown power.

Thank you so much.

Improve your schools, make a difference.

Hi, how are you? Fill one

of these out, it'll only take a minute.

Make a difference.

Hi, how are you?

Please take one.

It'll only take a minute. Hi.

It'll only take a minute.

Improve your schools, make a difference.

Hey, fill out

this survey, man.

Hey, ladies,

how you doing?

How was

that biology class?

Fill out these surveys, we want to know

what kids at Belmont have to say.

Fill this out.

There you go.

It's a survey.

Here you go.

Thank you.

These things

are a joke.

- They can't even spell.

- You should have no problems.

She wants to be able to ask questions

during class. That's reasonable.

Hey, this guy wants

Mexican food in the cafeteria.

Yeah, tacos for everyone.

Hey, the pinche cops across

the street just hassled me, man.

- What?

- Yeah, there's cops out there.

We're not doing

anything wrong.

They been out there for a while.

They been watching us, ey?

Hey, did they ask you

any questions?

Every night.

F***ing every night.

Yeah, you can't take these

surveys to the school board.

- Morning, Mr. Hurley.

- Good morning.

- Hey, Lloyd.

- Morning, Sal.

Why not? Look.

Mocte said that if we take--

Mocte. Did he tell you

that he tried this two years ago?

- What?

- Yeah, and they shut them down.

- They'll shut this down.

- No, the school board has to listen.

They don't have to listen to you.

Not the students.

- Yes they do.

- They can wait until you graduate

or drop out,

and then problem solved.

You don't even sound

like you're on our side.

I am on your side.

I was born on your side.

I have tortillas

in my blood.

You have to

slow down.

Okay? You have

to build support.

Okay.

What about

the school principals?

That's a start.

Try Ingles.

You want Mexican food

served in the cafeteria?

That's one point

in 39, Mr. Ingles.

"Compulsory

bilingual education.

Text books revised to reflect

Mexican-American culture and--"

"Teachers who show prejudice

must be transferred."

"Libraries expanded.

End of swatting."

"Covered lunch areas.

No janitorial punishment."

Mm-hmm.

"New schools"?

Tell me, Tanya, who's going

to pay for the new schools?

I don't know, sir.

I don't think

you thought this through.

You're going to graduate

in just a few months.

Are you saying it's not

important to improve our schools?

I don't see what you

have to complain about.

- You've done extremely well here.

- 'Cause it's not just me.

Look, I'm not saying

the schools are perfect.

I've pushed for some of these same

changes myself. These things take time.

Will you at least take it

to the school board?

Paula, you have

a bright future ahead of you.

Don't mess things up.

And that group that you've

been hanging out with...

you're too much of an individual

to buy into that collective angst crap.

Be sensible

about this.

- Sal, can I have a word?

- Yeah, sure.

Did you put these kids

up to this?

- No.

- Now I'm not stupid, Sal.

This is going to stop.

Paula Chrisistomo is--

- Chrisostomo.

- Chrisostomo.

Paula Chrisostomo

is a good student.

She shouldn't be

jeopardizing her future.

It's not up to me. The kids

took the initiative themselves.

Oh, and you're not

giving them any advice?

If they ask me a question,

I answer it truthfully.

That's what

a teacher does.

I think that you're trying

to coerce these kids--

Ingles, I'm not trying

to coerce anybody.

"Mr. Ingles" please.

Mr. Ingles, these kids

don't have to be coerced,

they know what's going on.

They know that they're getting

the short end of the stick.

I can see why they

kicked you out of Belmont.

You just don't know when

to draw the line, Sal.

Well, these kids

are gonna be heard.

- If things go wrong...

- Mm-hmm.

...I'm coming after you.

Well, come early,

'cause there'll be a line.

- What was that?

- Oh, I said everything will be fine.

Come on, huevones. You just gonna

sit there and watch us clean all night?

You know the reason

we got sh*t-canned.

It was because it was a stupid idea to

go to the principals in the first place.

- That was Sal's idea.

- No, that was my idea.

Your idea was to take a survey, and you

didn't tell us that you did it before.

- Hey, that was two years ago.

- Yeah, and it failed.

Look, we weren't nearly as

organized as we are now.

Screw that, it's the past.

Why don't we just take

the surveys to the school board?

Enough with the surveys already!

It didn't work.

Kids are getting their heads

busted for burning their draft cards,

and we can't turn in a few papers

to the school board? Sh*t.

I'll have to build a coalition.

You know how this thing works.

It's gonna take time.

Time is what we're

running out of.

These kids

are ready to blow.

- Sal...

- Mm-hmm.

You're the teacher,

teach them the system.

Well, the system's been

screwing them their entire lives.

I think they have a pretty

good idea of how the system works.

Well, radical reform

doesn't happen overnight.

Did the Watts riots

really change anything?

Well, let's just hope

it doesn't come to that.

Well, I'm gonna

need time to do this,

but I just got elected

to the school board.

Yeah, thanks to

the Chicano vote.

Let's get one thing

straight, all right?

It was a countywide election.

Oh. Well, y-you're just

sounding like a politician.

- You're sounding like an idiot.

- Oh! An idiot, huh?

Unenlightened.

- I prefer idiot.

- Listen, get me more of these surveys.

- I'm gonna have to pass them out...

- Mr. Castro.

so bring them

to me for the next...

The meeting will

now come to order.

Excuse me, Madam Chair.

First thing on the agenda is

of course the funding for the Westside.

It will be

approximately 2.5 million.

Mr. Richardson?

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