>> It's the end of the week so it's time to take out the trash. I love watching him walk
away with the can. Anyway, so Brad and I both have garbage people chosen. Mine was actually
fairly easy this week, although I would not expect that anyone would have been able to
predict it.
It is the North Paulding High School, or at least-
>> Sounds good. >> It's leadership, not the building, or the
people but the people in charge. So, I'm gonna put them on here, and by the way, I accidentally
printed on very high quality parchment paper. So anyway, they're gonna be very high quality
trash, you know why?
We need to go back a few days to find out why and it starts with Hannah Waters, a 15
year old who cares about the world and is gonna fight to make it better. So she tweeted,
day two at North Paulding High School is just as bad. We were stopped because it was jammed.
We're close enough to the point where I got pushed multiple times go to second block.
This is not okay. Not to mention the 10% mask rate.
>> There's a photo of absolutely packed hallways, which is not in any way safe. Those kids are
being exposed potentially to coronavirus, multiple schools have already had outbreaks.
And she continued to document this including, and I love this, breaking down the percent
compliance with mask rules in each of her blocks on multiple days. Which is absolutely
awesome. This is what we want, is someone like Hannah, who is going to like know what's
going on in the world and care about it.
And document what's wrong, make it public to try to make a change. And there was a change
as a result of Hannah's work. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, she said that she was
suspended after the photo was shared by Twitter accounts with large followings and went viral.
She says, I used my phone in the hallway without permission used my phone for social media,
and posting pictures of minors without consent. That was the reason she was told for her suspension,
which I guess is technically true. But I think we get the real reason is it makes the leadership
of North Paulding look really bad, and they don't like that.
So they suspended her. So now they did, after this became a big blow up story, reverse the
suspension. But we know what they were thinking and why they did it, and that's why they're
in the can. >> Yes, absolutely. This is the kind of stuff
where, this kind of behaviour is incentivized by Donald Trump.
Because everything he's doing is trying to, at the same time as he is levying these sanctions
against Carrie Lam in Hong Kong. For doing what the Chinese government wants and taking
away people's freedoms, and suppressing information and people's ability to express themselves.
That is exactly what this Georgia high school is doing at at the a little more than implied
behest of the President of the United States.
>> Yeah. >> Removing the ability of reporting things
from the CDC. Calling everyone who says stuff that is based in fact, fake news, all the
way down to his own top epidemiologists. This is that, this is leadership in action. And
yes, people are always gonna want to like cover up their mistakes and things that make
them embarrassed.
But like, to this extent when people's lives are at stake, usually that just happens at
schools and it's just molesting kids, right? >> Yeah.
>> They cover it up, you know what I mean, that's terrible too. But like this is, kids
are gonna die. That's why we've put it in the category with, something embarrassing
happened at your school.
And you're just like, let's do what we can to punish the kid for doing something which
should be fundamentally what we're teaching kids to do in school, anyway.
>> Exactly. Yeah, you gotta imagine that meeting where they're like, my god, we're getting
reamed online, this is a PR disaster, what should we do?
Well, we could strike back and make a martyr of her, I guess we could do that. Good call.
And this is where people go to learn. So I wanna show you one more thing just because,
in addition to the photos and the documentation, we also have some video that was made available.
And so I'm gonna show you that, it's great work here. Look at that, imagine walking around
this. Now a good number of the students are wearing masks, but tons aren't. And they are
very, very close packed together. And think about traveling down that, hallway how scared
you would be that you're gonna get a virus that might not kill you maybe.
But you might spread it someone else, you might.
>> Yeah. >> And I wanna read you, no, continue.
>> It's just like when I was a kid, I went home from school once, I was on like second
lurch, so we could leave. But I left and drove home because I was convinced through some
weird neurotic paranoia that the Earth decided it was gonna hurl toward the Sun.
Like I was freaked out about an irrational fear, I'm also terrified that I would die
from a meteorite and the Yellowstone supervolcano. These are very unreal fears that drove me
into real panics when I was in high school. >> Yeah.
>> The idea that I'm being forced to go to school amid a pandemic that is killing people.
And could result in the deaths of my not so elderly family members, not alone myself.
I cannot imagine the kind, not to mention also kids already being afraid that a school
shooter is gonna come and show up. >> Yeah.
>> How difficult it must be for kids right now, I can't even imagine.
>> Yeah, I can't, and so she and all of them are dealing with that fear. She is dealing
with the fact that she was suspended because of this. And I saw someone mention in the
comments, it's a great point, like, all of those kids that aren't wearing masks, do you
think they want to wear masks?
How do you think they will respond to one of their fellow students pointing out how
irresponsible this is, and putting pressure on them to wear masks? She is going to face
social strike back from her peers at school, but she still did it. And the reason that
she gave for why she did it, I absolutely love.
She said, my mom has always told me that she won't get mad at us if we get in trouble,
as long as it's good trouble, citing John Lewis. Like I, that kills me. We have the
can for bad people, we've been talking for a long time about having something for the
good people.
I guess I can honorary induct her to dragon squad, that's about all I can offer at this
point. But Hannah Waters like no, we need a million, we need ten million Hannah Waters.
People who actually care about social responsibility and will suffer for it, to try to push the
country in the right direction.
Great work there, but not for North
Paulding's Principal, you're trash. >> Yes.