Last Chance High (2014) s01e03 Episode Script
Scared Speechless
1 No, his ass do too much.
He don't never say shit to Roberto.
This is the last stop before going to the juvenile detention.
Man, say something else! BOY: I'ma throw your ass out the bus.
That was the second time she stabbed that boy.
And I went to his face.
I'm like, "Do it again.
" And he did it again, and I just stabbed him.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
I broke a teacher's arm, broke her wrist up to here.
We have had teachers that walk in that front door and walk straight out the back.
Just a few can take it.
Come on, man.
They're gonna eat you up.
- - WILLIAMS: My job is to nurture and educate and protect.
- - From what? Themselves - It's gonna be all right.
- That's why we're doing this.
their family, their surroundings.
Themselves first.
"Spanky," do it again.
[MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
Come on, Spanky.
Take a deep breath! Let's do it! Come on, man! It's just the second day.
Do it! Now blast it back as fast as you can! Come on! Come on! There you go.
I don't know what "special ed" means, myself.
All I know is a kid in need.
That's a place of caring you know, arms around you.
WILLIAMS: When you're ready.
When you're ready.
Come on.
You've got to do it.
Just go.
Come on.
You got it.
Go! Do it! There you go! Come on, Spanky! Come on, Spanky! Go! That's all right.
That was about to drop.
The next one.
All right.
There you go.
He kept on [SPEAKING INDSTINCTLY.]
I can't understand you.
He kept on [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
Move your hand from your mouth.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
Look, let's do some breathing exercises, okay? [CHUCKLES.]
So let's breathe in.
[INHALES DEEPLY.]
Hold it.
Breathe out.
[EXHALES DEEPLY.]
Okay.
Say your name.
Montreal.
Say it again.
Montreal.
Dang.
Joseph, would you like to read page five? JOSEPH: Why you can't read? Okay.
I'll read.
"Sharks are fish, but unlike most other fish, sharks have no bones.
Shark skeletons are made of cartilage which is the same material that gives human ears their shape.
" "Oceans have four or more [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
350 mi mill" Okay.
All right.
Who wants to read next? "Sharks live" [MOCKINGLY SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
Stop playing with me, goof! [LAUGHS.]
JOHNSON: [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
Where you going? I know, I know, I know.
[MOCKS MONTREAL'S VOICE.]
But you know what? You can't walk out the room like that.
You understand that, don't you? Just sit down and be quiet.
And I want you to ignore him, okay? He understands that he can irritate you.
Don't let him do it.
Joseph, please.
Read properly.
[MOCKING MONTREAL.]
"Sharks" Joseph.
[LAUGHS.]
Okay, Matthew, you read.
Okay.
"Sharks have lived in the oceans for [GROANING.]
" [LAUGHING.]
"in 35" Hey, you're gonna lose some points.
You're gonna lose some points.
[GROANS.]
[GROANING.]
"There are more" Unh-unh.
Unh-unh.
We're not gonna have that.
We're not gonna have that.
We're not Remember, Montreal.
You walked over here.
You walked away from your seat.
You walked over to him.
So what does that do for you? Okay? Here.
Take it easy.
Have a seat.
JOSEPH: He wasn't about to know anyway.
No, that's not the point.
Just relax, son.
All right.
Let's go on to page seven.
"Most sharks have powerful [GROANING.]
bodies to help them catch their prey.
" Boy.
Joseph.
JOSEPH: All right.
Okay.
Let's look at the picture.
Stop looking at me.
Which part do you think is the muscles? Which fin do you think is I say, "What do you want to do?" He said, "[INDISTINCT.]
" You know what? The best thing you can do is to stay in your seat and ignore him.
Once you stop talking about it, he'll stop talking about it, okay? Are they still bullying you? [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
I can't understand you.
Not really.
So what about the other problem we had? The hygiene problem? Do you take a shower every night? You use deodorant, too? Because what they're gonna start doing is talking, and then they're gonna start bullying you.
Right? I believe that you can speak better than what you're speaking.
Are you nervous? Huh? Nervous about what? I just get Don't.
Don't.
Hold it.
Hold your face up.
If we give you a set of plays, and you've got to say, "Two, two two," loud enough for everybody to hear it, could you do that? Two! Two! Two! Two fingers.
What you talking about? Two! Two! Two! Left! Left! Left! You speak well when you want to use a cuss word.
I heard you today.
[LAUGHS.]
You've got to get some confidence in yourself.
You need somebody to talk to or something like that, you've got open your mouth and say something.
Is there a man around your house that you can talk to? Or is it always just a bunch of women? Women.
Just a bunch of women.
Me and grandma, right? Yeah.
You know what a mentor is? No.
A mentor is a person, like, it could be somebody like me, that will come and get you and take you some place or come around and talk to you or let you talk.
And you're gonna talk 'cause you're gonna want to play softball, and I'm gonna be right there.
If you want to play football next year, I'm gonna be right there.
Nobody else got to know.
I won't tell nobody else.
If any of you If it get out, you told.
Yeah.
Uh, Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If it get out, you told.
You understand me? Okay.
All right.
All right, then.
I don't plan to run away.
That's the problem.
It just happens.
The first thing that people look at is, "What type of mother does this child have, that she can't even control her own daughter?" [INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
Well, I don't like being here.
That's another reason I kind of run away, 'cause I don't like school.
But I don't plan to run away.
That's the problem.
It just happens.
So I'll be with a male or a female, and it'll be 9:00, like 9:30.
I have to be home by 10:00.
And they'll just be like, "Just sleep over.
" And I'll be "Okay.
" That's it.
I just stay out until I get caught.
SANCHEZ: Crystal, this is your mom, like, for the fifth or sixth time.
If you get this message, at least text me and let me know you're okay.
Bye.
[CELLPHONE BEEPS.]
If I look at my call log, I've been calling her since 8:45 this morning.
She said, "I'm just gonna go hang out with my friend, and then later I'll be back for report card pick up.
" No Crystal.
[CHILD SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
She knows the rules, and she, um, has broken my rules.
We're in a dangerous neighborhood.
This is Puerto Rican ghetto.
Gangs going north, west, east, south.
We're surrounded.
We're right in the middle.
We're in the heart of it all.
I have had to go out in the streets with my other daughters looking for Crystal.
I would not want a police officer to come knocking on my door, telling me, "We need you to come and identify this body.
" That's my biggest concern with Crystal.
Tamaris, come on.
We have to go to Crystal's school and get her report card.
We're not gonna wait for Crystal.
It doesn't help.
And here we are at Montefiore.
I'm always worried of, what do they think of me due to Crystal's behavior? "She can't even control her own daughter.
" TAMARIS: [WHIMPERS.]
- I want you to listen to me.
- But you're hurting me.
You're being disobedient.
Do you want to be in this school? Do you want to come to this school? Mama! I don't think you want to come to this school.
Look.
You have to see him every morning.
[WHIMPERING.]
Let go.
She'll just roam the hall and goes where she want to go.
Okay.
Very defiant, huh? Yes, she can be very defiant.
And she tells me she was doing so well.
We don't have the greatest rapport, so Okay.
That's that's the best I could say about Crystal, so As soon as the bus starts up, the recording starts.
[VIDEO PLAYS.]
SANCHEZ: Look at this.
You really get to see what goes on on a bus.
[STUDENTS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY .]
She acts like this all the time.
[SHOUTING CONTINUES .]
I mean, she's not thinking.
She's talking with a lot of anger issues.
YOUNG MAN: Hey, bro, I'm gonna hop over there and knock your ass out.
Wow.
YOUNG MAN: I will beat your ass.
Wow.
I will beat your ass.
Their mouth is filthy.
Even when the detectives get on there, they don't stop clowning.
Kids are not afraid.
They're not afraid because the police officers are there.
They don't care.
There has been times where Crystal has bad-mouthed police officers, like, "You ain't my mother.
You ain't my father.
" - Hi.
- Hi.
Can you do me a favor? If you see this child, could you please call at this number? She's my daughter.
She's been missing for a week.
Okay.
This is my daughter.
She's been missing for a week.
If you see her, could you please call that number? Yes, I can.
Thank you.
[SPEAKING SPANISH.]
Gracias.
WOMAN: Does she wear her hair down more? - SANCHEZ: Yeah.
- I've seen her before.
You've seen her? MAN: All right.
We got you.
Is she with a bad guy, you think? I don't know who she's with 'cause a real friend wouldn't have a 14-year-old out on the street.
MAN: Hell no.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
They do a lot of drug dealing in that area, and a lot of bad things happen in that area.
I mean, girls have literally gotten raped in that area.
This is a parent's worst nightmare.
Well, this is what we're gonna do.
We're gonna come, uh, over there after school.
And then we're gonna go to the police station and tell them you did the police report, and we need her on the, uh, AMBER Alert.
SANCHEZ: Um, my missing daughter, she's 14 years old.
So what I would like to do is put an AMBER Alert on her.
HOOD: This young lady, she's 14 years old, and she stay right there on Beach.
She's been missing since last week, okay? HOOD: Her name is Crystal.
She's been missing for a week, okay? She's she's she's ran away.
In Montefiore, the principal will go get in the car, the assistant principal, the teacher.
Somebody is gonna go and check on the kids.
And that's the kind of accountability you need to have when you're dealing with kids with special needs.
Your Knock your ass out! Bitch! This is a photo of my wife and I in the '80s.
Man when I had hair! [LAUGHS.]
That's my wife.
44 years.
That's my soul mate.
My son went to Columbia College in Chicago.
My daughter, Illinois State.
We made sure all of us had education.
My first week at Montefiore was interesting because they told me to take this boy up to detention.
And the boy told me that he was gonna hit me with a chair.
As soon as I got up there, that boy hit me with a chair.
Knock your Knock your ass out! Bitch! Don't with me.
Get off me, bitch.
I'm gonna beat your ass, boy.
BOY: Some white ass hair.
If you want to start bullying people - MAN: Montreal.
- I'm gonna start bullying - your goddamn behind.
- Montreal.
So you were making fun of him, right? BOY: No! I'm not talking about the bus.
I'm talking about right here in this room.
Write it up, Mr.
Johnson.
Write it up, please.
JOHNSON: Okay.
So I asked you, like, 30 minutes ago, "Who hit who first?" Didn't you say he hit you first? But I don't mess with him no more.
He mess with him all day.
I don't.
As soon as we got on the bus, he said so to me.
He kept on talking.
Then he punched me in my nose.
See there? See the planes landing? You ever seen the airport? Mnh-mnh.
You ain't never seen the airport either? Nope.
WILLIAMS: We're going to see DePaul against Seton Hall.
$17.
25.
Ooh, Charlie.
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER P.
A.
.]
Watch your step when you go down.
Look.
What? Cheerleaders.
That's all you see? Cheerleaders, huh? Which one? Oh, with the ponytail, huh? [AIR HORN BLOWS.]
[MARCHING BAND MUSIC PLAYS.]
[MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY OVER P.
A.
.]
Damn.
Oh, I feel, like, sick.
Ahh.
[LAUGHS.]
[MUSIC CONTINUES.]
Go! ALL: Go! Fight! [LAUGHS.]
[CROWD CHEERS.]
Go! So what you been doing at home? Hmm? Nothing.
Nothing? Keep your hands on the ball! MAN: Yeah! How old is your oldest sister? - Uh, what's her name? - Mia.
What is your next sister's name? What is her name? - Carla.
- What? Carla.
Carla? You've got to talk to me, man.
I can't even talk to you like that.
You know I know you can talk better than that.
What made you start doing that? Were you at home? Where were you? Did something happen? Did something happen? Did somebody scare you, or did somebody Your mama say something to you, or what? What happened? What made you start talking like that? Look at me.
Listen to me.
Because your teachers said you never talked like that last year.
So something had to happen at home.
[APPLAUSE.]
[MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY OVER P.
A.
.]
Hmm? You know.
You just don't want to say, right? Huh? The first time I started disliking my mom is the first time she put me in the hospital.
Out of seven kids, I've got 45 personalities.
Instead of blaming somebody, pointing the finger, we just need to help.
- Let's go! - Yeah! SANCHEZ: She should be in school.
She's only 14.
She has no reason why not to be in school.
So I'm bringing her in.
As soon as they called me, and they said, "Do you have a daughter named Crystal Sanchez?" I said, "Okay, officer.
What did she do?" And he was like, "Well, she's been caught up shoplifting.
" And I was like, "In a store shoplifting? For what? Crystal gets everything and anything she wants.
" MAN: Oh, so that's what the police got her for? Yeah.
For shoplifting? Shoplifting.
And they let her go.
Go get your lunch or you're gonna sit starving.
CRYSTAL: Okay.
You don't need to talk to me.
Oh, yeah? Well, I am talking to you, sassy.
HOOD: The first thing that we want to do is blame the parents.
There are too many different situations to why kids act up.
And then, let's be truthful, most of these parents are between 15 and 17 years older than their children.
We as humans, instead of blaming somebody, pointing the finger, we just need to help.
CRYSTAL: The deodorant, the toothbrushes or toothpasteses.
We took clothes.
And we went to walk out, and I already knew the lady.
So, um, there goes security.
So then the lady is like, "Hello, ladies.
" And then she pulls out her badge, and she asked us, do we know why she got us? And we're like, "Yeah, we stole.
" She thinks you're gonna wind up dead on her doorstep.
But it doesn't seem like you care.
[YAWNS.]
SANCHEZ: I feel that I cannot do this again.
I cannot handle this.
It's taking a toll on me, on my health.
I'm afraid that it could go to the extreme where I can have a cardiac arrest.
Then who is gonna take care of my little one? The first time I started disliking my mom is the first time she put me in the hospital.
I started disliking her when I was 8 years old.
That's it.
I have no respect for you.
I have nothing for you.
Well, I don't I love you, but I don't love you like if you were my mom.
You are my mom, but I don't love you like that.
You you ain't nothing to me.
I mean, if something happens to you, I'm gonna cry.
But after a while, I'm gonna get over it, and I'm I'm gonna forget you just like that.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
WILLIAMS: Come on, Cortez! Straight out.
There you go.
Watch there! Watch it! - Come on! - Shot! - Let's go! - Yeah! That was a great pass.
Now you learning.
Y'all are finally learning how to play together, and that's what we want.
Do not leave none of my clothes in this locker room.
There has been times that they have really tested my ability to stay there with them.
And he has Montreal, we call him "Spanky.
" He has issues.
He has issues.
But I cannot just sit and dwell on him.
I've got another one who likes gangs, likes to shoot.
I've got another one that don't like his mom or something like that.
I got another one that got 15 brothers and sisters.
I have been to their house.
I have brought their mamas to school.
Show me another school that want to do that all day long.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
[SPITS.]
MAN: Yeah, you're gonna meet Mr.
Williams.
At first, I don't start just cursing.
I tell him, "Let me go," because they be holding me too tight, and it be making me mad.
I don't like them touching me.
Let me go.
you, bitch.
you.
He don't never say shit to Roberto.
This is the last stop before going to the juvenile detention.
Man, say something else! BOY: I'ma throw your ass out the bus.
That was the second time she stabbed that boy.
And I went to his face.
I'm like, "Do it again.
" And he did it again, and I just stabbed him.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
I broke a teacher's arm, broke her wrist up to here.
We have had teachers that walk in that front door and walk straight out the back.
Just a few can take it.
Come on, man.
They're gonna eat you up.
- - WILLIAMS: My job is to nurture and educate and protect.
- - From what? Themselves - It's gonna be all right.
- That's why we're doing this.
their family, their surroundings.
Themselves first.
"Spanky," do it again.
[MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
Come on, Spanky.
Take a deep breath! Let's do it! Come on, man! It's just the second day.
Do it! Now blast it back as fast as you can! Come on! Come on! There you go.
I don't know what "special ed" means, myself.
All I know is a kid in need.
That's a place of caring you know, arms around you.
WILLIAMS: When you're ready.
When you're ready.
Come on.
You've got to do it.
Just go.
Come on.
You got it.
Go! Do it! There you go! Come on, Spanky! Come on, Spanky! Go! That's all right.
That was about to drop.
The next one.
All right.
There you go.
He kept on [SPEAKING INDSTINCTLY.]
I can't understand you.
He kept on [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
Move your hand from your mouth.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
Look, let's do some breathing exercises, okay? [CHUCKLES.]
So let's breathe in.
[INHALES DEEPLY.]
Hold it.
Breathe out.
[EXHALES DEEPLY.]
Okay.
Say your name.
Montreal.
Say it again.
Montreal.
Dang.
Joseph, would you like to read page five? JOSEPH: Why you can't read? Okay.
I'll read.
"Sharks are fish, but unlike most other fish, sharks have no bones.
Shark skeletons are made of cartilage which is the same material that gives human ears their shape.
" "Oceans have four or more [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
350 mi mill" Okay.
All right.
Who wants to read next? "Sharks live" [MOCKINGLY SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
Stop playing with me, goof! [LAUGHS.]
JOHNSON: [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
Where you going? I know, I know, I know.
[MOCKS MONTREAL'S VOICE.]
But you know what? You can't walk out the room like that.
You understand that, don't you? Just sit down and be quiet.
And I want you to ignore him, okay? He understands that he can irritate you.
Don't let him do it.
Joseph, please.
Read properly.
[MOCKING MONTREAL.]
"Sharks" Joseph.
[LAUGHS.]
Okay, Matthew, you read.
Okay.
"Sharks have lived in the oceans for [GROANING.]
" [LAUGHING.]
"in 35" Hey, you're gonna lose some points.
You're gonna lose some points.
[GROANS.]
[GROANING.]
"There are more" Unh-unh.
Unh-unh.
We're not gonna have that.
We're not gonna have that.
We're not Remember, Montreal.
You walked over here.
You walked away from your seat.
You walked over to him.
So what does that do for you? Okay? Here.
Take it easy.
Have a seat.
JOSEPH: He wasn't about to know anyway.
No, that's not the point.
Just relax, son.
All right.
Let's go on to page seven.
"Most sharks have powerful [GROANING.]
bodies to help them catch their prey.
" Boy.
Joseph.
JOSEPH: All right.
Okay.
Let's look at the picture.
Stop looking at me.
Which part do you think is the muscles? Which fin do you think is I say, "What do you want to do?" He said, "[INDISTINCT.]
" You know what? The best thing you can do is to stay in your seat and ignore him.
Once you stop talking about it, he'll stop talking about it, okay? Are they still bullying you? [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
I can't understand you.
Not really.
So what about the other problem we had? The hygiene problem? Do you take a shower every night? You use deodorant, too? Because what they're gonna start doing is talking, and then they're gonna start bullying you.
Right? I believe that you can speak better than what you're speaking.
Are you nervous? Huh? Nervous about what? I just get Don't.
Don't.
Hold it.
Hold your face up.
If we give you a set of plays, and you've got to say, "Two, two two," loud enough for everybody to hear it, could you do that? Two! Two! Two! Two fingers.
What you talking about? Two! Two! Two! Left! Left! Left! You speak well when you want to use a cuss word.
I heard you today.
[LAUGHS.]
You've got to get some confidence in yourself.
You need somebody to talk to or something like that, you've got open your mouth and say something.
Is there a man around your house that you can talk to? Or is it always just a bunch of women? Women.
Just a bunch of women.
Me and grandma, right? Yeah.
You know what a mentor is? No.
A mentor is a person, like, it could be somebody like me, that will come and get you and take you some place or come around and talk to you or let you talk.
And you're gonna talk 'cause you're gonna want to play softball, and I'm gonna be right there.
If you want to play football next year, I'm gonna be right there.
Nobody else got to know.
I won't tell nobody else.
If any of you If it get out, you told.
Yeah.
Uh, Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If it get out, you told.
You understand me? Okay.
All right.
All right, then.
I don't plan to run away.
That's the problem.
It just happens.
The first thing that people look at is, "What type of mother does this child have, that she can't even control her own daughter?" [INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
Well, I don't like being here.
That's another reason I kind of run away, 'cause I don't like school.
But I don't plan to run away.
That's the problem.
It just happens.
So I'll be with a male or a female, and it'll be 9:00, like 9:30.
I have to be home by 10:00.
And they'll just be like, "Just sleep over.
" And I'll be "Okay.
" That's it.
I just stay out until I get caught.
SANCHEZ: Crystal, this is your mom, like, for the fifth or sixth time.
If you get this message, at least text me and let me know you're okay.
Bye.
[CELLPHONE BEEPS.]
If I look at my call log, I've been calling her since 8:45 this morning.
She said, "I'm just gonna go hang out with my friend, and then later I'll be back for report card pick up.
" No Crystal.
[CHILD SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
She knows the rules, and she, um, has broken my rules.
We're in a dangerous neighborhood.
This is Puerto Rican ghetto.
Gangs going north, west, east, south.
We're surrounded.
We're right in the middle.
We're in the heart of it all.
I have had to go out in the streets with my other daughters looking for Crystal.
I would not want a police officer to come knocking on my door, telling me, "We need you to come and identify this body.
" That's my biggest concern with Crystal.
Tamaris, come on.
We have to go to Crystal's school and get her report card.
We're not gonna wait for Crystal.
It doesn't help.
And here we are at Montefiore.
I'm always worried of, what do they think of me due to Crystal's behavior? "She can't even control her own daughter.
" TAMARIS: [WHIMPERS.]
- I want you to listen to me.
- But you're hurting me.
You're being disobedient.
Do you want to be in this school? Do you want to come to this school? Mama! I don't think you want to come to this school.
Look.
You have to see him every morning.
[WHIMPERING.]
Let go.
She'll just roam the hall and goes where she want to go.
Okay.
Very defiant, huh? Yes, she can be very defiant.
And she tells me she was doing so well.
We don't have the greatest rapport, so Okay.
That's that's the best I could say about Crystal, so As soon as the bus starts up, the recording starts.
[VIDEO PLAYS.]
SANCHEZ: Look at this.
You really get to see what goes on on a bus.
[STUDENTS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY .]
She acts like this all the time.
[SHOUTING CONTINUES .]
I mean, she's not thinking.
She's talking with a lot of anger issues.
YOUNG MAN: Hey, bro, I'm gonna hop over there and knock your ass out.
Wow.
YOUNG MAN: I will beat your ass.
Wow.
I will beat your ass.
Their mouth is filthy.
Even when the detectives get on there, they don't stop clowning.
Kids are not afraid.
They're not afraid because the police officers are there.
They don't care.
There has been times where Crystal has bad-mouthed police officers, like, "You ain't my mother.
You ain't my father.
" - Hi.
- Hi.
Can you do me a favor? If you see this child, could you please call at this number? She's my daughter.
She's been missing for a week.
Okay.
This is my daughter.
She's been missing for a week.
If you see her, could you please call that number? Yes, I can.
Thank you.
[SPEAKING SPANISH.]
Gracias.
WOMAN: Does she wear her hair down more? - SANCHEZ: Yeah.
- I've seen her before.
You've seen her? MAN: All right.
We got you.
Is she with a bad guy, you think? I don't know who she's with 'cause a real friend wouldn't have a 14-year-old out on the street.
MAN: Hell no.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
They do a lot of drug dealing in that area, and a lot of bad things happen in that area.
I mean, girls have literally gotten raped in that area.
This is a parent's worst nightmare.
Well, this is what we're gonna do.
We're gonna come, uh, over there after school.
And then we're gonna go to the police station and tell them you did the police report, and we need her on the, uh, AMBER Alert.
SANCHEZ: Um, my missing daughter, she's 14 years old.
So what I would like to do is put an AMBER Alert on her.
HOOD: This young lady, she's 14 years old, and she stay right there on Beach.
She's been missing since last week, okay? HOOD: Her name is Crystal.
She's been missing for a week, okay? She's she's she's ran away.
In Montefiore, the principal will go get in the car, the assistant principal, the teacher.
Somebody is gonna go and check on the kids.
And that's the kind of accountability you need to have when you're dealing with kids with special needs.
Your Knock your ass out! Bitch! This is a photo of my wife and I in the '80s.
Man when I had hair! [LAUGHS.]
That's my wife.
44 years.
That's my soul mate.
My son went to Columbia College in Chicago.
My daughter, Illinois State.
We made sure all of us had education.
My first week at Montefiore was interesting because they told me to take this boy up to detention.
And the boy told me that he was gonna hit me with a chair.
As soon as I got up there, that boy hit me with a chair.
Knock your Knock your ass out! Bitch! Don't with me.
Get off me, bitch.
I'm gonna beat your ass, boy.
BOY: Some white ass hair.
If you want to start bullying people - MAN: Montreal.
- I'm gonna start bullying - your goddamn behind.
- Montreal.
So you were making fun of him, right? BOY: No! I'm not talking about the bus.
I'm talking about right here in this room.
Write it up, Mr.
Johnson.
Write it up, please.
JOHNSON: Okay.
So I asked you, like, 30 minutes ago, "Who hit who first?" Didn't you say he hit you first? But I don't mess with him no more.
He mess with him all day.
I don't.
As soon as we got on the bus, he said so to me.
He kept on talking.
Then he punched me in my nose.
See there? See the planes landing? You ever seen the airport? Mnh-mnh.
You ain't never seen the airport either? Nope.
WILLIAMS: We're going to see DePaul against Seton Hall.
$17.
25.
Ooh, Charlie.
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER P.
A.
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Watch your step when you go down.
Look.
What? Cheerleaders.
That's all you see? Cheerleaders, huh? Which one? Oh, with the ponytail, huh? [AIR HORN BLOWS.]
[MARCHING BAND MUSIC PLAYS.]
[MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY OVER P.
A.
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Damn.
Oh, I feel, like, sick.
Ahh.
[LAUGHS.]
[MUSIC CONTINUES.]
Go! ALL: Go! Fight! [LAUGHS.]
[CROWD CHEERS.]
Go! So what you been doing at home? Hmm? Nothing.
Nothing? Keep your hands on the ball! MAN: Yeah! How old is your oldest sister? - Uh, what's her name? - Mia.
What is your next sister's name? What is her name? - Carla.
- What? Carla.
Carla? You've got to talk to me, man.
I can't even talk to you like that.
You know I know you can talk better than that.
What made you start doing that? Were you at home? Where were you? Did something happen? Did something happen? Did somebody scare you, or did somebody Your mama say something to you, or what? What happened? What made you start talking like that? Look at me.
Listen to me.
Because your teachers said you never talked like that last year.
So something had to happen at home.
[APPLAUSE.]
[MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY OVER P.
A.
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Hmm? You know.
You just don't want to say, right? Huh? The first time I started disliking my mom is the first time she put me in the hospital.
Out of seven kids, I've got 45 personalities.
Instead of blaming somebody, pointing the finger, we just need to help.
- Let's go! - Yeah! SANCHEZ: She should be in school.
She's only 14.
She has no reason why not to be in school.
So I'm bringing her in.
As soon as they called me, and they said, "Do you have a daughter named Crystal Sanchez?" I said, "Okay, officer.
What did she do?" And he was like, "Well, she's been caught up shoplifting.
" And I was like, "In a store shoplifting? For what? Crystal gets everything and anything she wants.
" MAN: Oh, so that's what the police got her for? Yeah.
For shoplifting? Shoplifting.
And they let her go.
Go get your lunch or you're gonna sit starving.
CRYSTAL: Okay.
You don't need to talk to me.
Oh, yeah? Well, I am talking to you, sassy.
HOOD: The first thing that we want to do is blame the parents.
There are too many different situations to why kids act up.
And then, let's be truthful, most of these parents are between 15 and 17 years older than their children.
We as humans, instead of blaming somebody, pointing the finger, we just need to help.
CRYSTAL: The deodorant, the toothbrushes or toothpasteses.
We took clothes.
And we went to walk out, and I already knew the lady.
So, um, there goes security.
So then the lady is like, "Hello, ladies.
" And then she pulls out her badge, and she asked us, do we know why she got us? And we're like, "Yeah, we stole.
" She thinks you're gonna wind up dead on her doorstep.
But it doesn't seem like you care.
[YAWNS.]
SANCHEZ: I feel that I cannot do this again.
I cannot handle this.
It's taking a toll on me, on my health.
I'm afraid that it could go to the extreme where I can have a cardiac arrest.
Then who is gonna take care of my little one? The first time I started disliking my mom is the first time she put me in the hospital.
I started disliking her when I was 8 years old.
That's it.
I have no respect for you.
I have nothing for you.
Well, I don't I love you, but I don't love you like if you were my mom.
You are my mom, but I don't love you like that.
You you ain't nothing to me.
I mean, if something happens to you, I'm gonna cry.
But after a while, I'm gonna get over it, and I'm I'm gonna forget you just like that.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
WILLIAMS: Come on, Cortez! Straight out.
There you go.
Watch there! Watch it! - Come on! - Shot! - Let's go! - Yeah! That was a great pass.
Now you learning.
Y'all are finally learning how to play together, and that's what we want.
Do not leave none of my clothes in this locker room.
There has been times that they have really tested my ability to stay there with them.
And he has Montreal, we call him "Spanky.
" He has issues.
He has issues.
But I cannot just sit and dwell on him.
I've got another one who likes gangs, likes to shoot.
I've got another one that don't like his mom or something like that.
I got another one that got 15 brothers and sisters.
I have been to their house.
I have brought their mamas to school.
Show me another school that want to do that all day long.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
[SPITS.]
MAN: Yeah, you're gonna meet Mr.
Williams.
At first, I don't start just cursing.
I tell him, "Let me go," because they be holding me too tight, and it be making me mad.
I don't like them touching me.
Let me go.
you, bitch.
you.