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- Students around our region
are headed back to school this week.
For an inside look,
we went down to Abraham George High School
and talked to students, teachers, and parents.
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- I'm launching my campaign
for student body president today.
I've made my campaign very easy to understand,
more cheese in the cafeteria lasagna,
that's it, I'm a one issue candidate.
If you want more cheese, vote for Deneese.
- The term back to school is so problematic
because not everyone is back.
While you were at the pool, I was at summer school.
While you were catching rays, I was in geometry class
getting quizzed about rays.
So check your vacation privilege.
- Oh, yeah, I wore my swim trunks today
because one of the seniors told me
that there's a pool on the roof.
This school's got everything.
Apparently, there's also a water slide
in the principal's office and I can not wait to find
the secret water fountain
that dispenses code Red Mountain Dew.
- Many teachers spend the summer retooling their lessons
for the upcoming semester, but not me.
I just dust off the same old lesson plan I've been using
for the last 15 years.
I mean, I'm teaching history.
It's not like one year the Germans
are gonna win World War II.
- I grew 16 inches over the summer
and now, I can reach that shelf at the top of my locker
and bullies can't lift me up anymore
to dunk my head in the toilet.
Now, if only my voice would drop
maybe I could get a date to the school dance.
- It makes me so happy
that they welcome parent volunteers here.
I do every event that I can.
I do the plays, the sports games,
the field trips, everything.
I mean, I practically live here.
Oh, excuse me, hi Sophia, hi Izzy.
The volleyball team sure look stacked this year.
They don't know who I am.
My daughter graduated seven years ago.
- Probably gonna just like play some movies,
you know, keep the lights off.
You guys know movies, you know what movies
I'm talking about, you know, "Paul Blart: Mall Cops",
something like that.
- I actually graduated from this school four years ago
and now, I'm here teaching.
You might think that I would feel
like I'm still a child myself
and that I have no business being a teacher
and you'd be right.
- Now, gum is forbidden in my classroom,
but especially cinnamon flavored gum.
That is grounds for an immediate Saturday detention.
I can not stand the smell of cinnamon gum.
I could smell it from 20 feet away.
I smell someone chewing it right now over there somewhere.
Who does that?
Who chews cinnamon flavored gum?
Get a grip.
Anyway.
- These combination lockers are impossible, man.
I got here at 6:30 this morning
with my phone full of YouTube tutorials
and 90 minutes later, I am nowhere.
I've got 15 textbooks in my backpack.
My vertebrae are collapsing.
- My parents decided that due to my intelligence,
I should skip several grades.
So that is why I am a 12 year old, high school senior.
Why my parents wouldn't just let me stay home
and continue work on making the first human clone ever,
I'll never understand.
- So I come here for homeroom
and they count me as being present
and then I just leave during first period
and I go over to Chick-fil-A and I get some nuggets.
I don't do that on Wednesday though,
because it's chicken nugget Wednesday at the cafeteria,
so I go over there and I get some nugs.
This isn't gonna go on the air, is it?
- Now, I told my kids this year, we are gonna walk to school
because you guys need the fresh air and I am pre-diabetic
so I need to reduce a little bit, if you know what I mean.
So we walked about two miles.
It's not the easiest journey either.
We had to cross a six-lane highway.
There was a, at one point, a rabid Opossum,
I called animal control,
they really needed to check that out.
It wouldn't stop coming after us, it was very frightening.
- The students always complain about having to write essays
and then they complain that I don't grade them right away.
It's like B word please.
You had three weeks to write one crappy two-page essay,
now, you want me to grade 90 of them in two days?
How about you figure out the difference between there,
their, and they're, and then we'll talk.
- My mom is clueless.
I tell her, "Ma, you need to drop me off three blocks away
so that the entire student population does not see me riding
in your crusty A word Hyundai Santa Fe
with the 2012 Mitt Romney bumper sticker on the back.
Are you trying to ruin my life?"
- All summer long, I have been compiling an anthology of tea
to spill this school year and I've got it all right here.
It is organized into green tea, which is light gossip stuff,
like guess who Taytay is crushing on?
Then there's black tea, which is the heavy stuff,
like oh, my gosh, did you hear about the drama
between KK and Kiki?
And then there's chai tea, which is,
you can't make this S up T.
I wish I could give you a preview, but mm, it is too spicy.
♪ They say a stranger's come to town ♪
♪ They call him Mr. Frank James ♪