- America is a nation of immigrants, everyone knows that.
And there are not many things as American as apple pie.
Which is actually not American.
And baseball, which was based on a game Rounders
from England.
But we have the Statue of Liberty,
which was a gift from France of a Roman goddess,
built by immigrants and paid for by a prush, hmm.
So the only thing we can be sure of
is the fact that so many cultures and countries
helped shape America.
With that being said, you can see why people
from both parties are upset that DACA,
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was not renewed,
and will likely sent thousands of people back
to their countries of origin,
even though America is all they have ever known.
As a teacher, I found that experience is the best
way to learn.
And lets be honest, we rarely appreciate or even
understand something until it directly affects us.
Most young adults probably don't even care
about the end of DACA because it doesn't affect
them directly.
But it definitely affects someone that they know
or even someone that they go to school with.
So how would my students feel knowing
that they're going to be taken out of my class
because of a decision their parents made
and that they had no control over.
- [Loudspeaker] Attention all staff.
Attention all staff.
Please check your emails immediately.
Thank you.
- Alright, hold on.
Alright, ladies and gentlemen.
What I would like you to do, very quickly.
Who went to Connecticut Farms Battle Hill?
Connecticut Farms Battle of Washington?
Alright, do me a favor,
those of who went to that school, get in this row
right here.
What's the other school, Livingston?
Get in this row right here.
Franklin and Non Union Elementary schools,
get in the last row right here.
Alright.
Back on important stuff.
- [Loudspeaker] I am sorry for the interruption,
but please, please inform students
that to help improve test scores,
all students who attended Livingston, Battle Hill,
or Hannah Caldwell will be, and I repeat,
will be taking an additional algebra class
instead of their elective, starting Monday.
- Oh heck no!
- [Loudspeaker] They will receive their new-
- Just so you know,
we had a faculty meeting in the last week
and they did say there will be a change of schedule,
but they never said that teachers or students
will be changed based on their scores,
because of their numbers, they had to do it
by elementary school.
- [Male Student] I'm in the second one.
- [Female Student] I'm in the second one too.
- [Teacher] Just for the fourth marking, Kerry.
- [Male Student] I refuse.
- [Female Student] Oh no.
- Alright, alright, alright.
- [Loudspeaker] Excuse me,
this will be the last interruption.
Attention, please inform all students,
that if they attended Washington,
or Connecticut Farms,
they will be taking an additional English class.
- [Teacher] Quiet!
- [Loudspeaker] They will also receive their schedules
on Monday as well.
As for students who went to Franklin or did not attend
an elementary school in town,
good news!
You get to stay where you are.
- Request per Mr. Lowry,
please inform any students who have issues with this
to either see me in my office
or have their parents set up a meeting with me directly.
It is not our fault that their parents chose
to live in a certain part of town
and attend a certain elementary school.
Alright, who wants to go see Mr. Lowery together?
Alright, first of all, good news for Franklin students,
and Non Union high school students.
I'm only kidding about these policies.
Alright, so don't freak out and text your parents.
So, I had Mary Rose call directly to our classroom
and give you the perception.
The reason why, DACA, Deferred Action for Children Arrivals.
The whole premise of DACA is, it's a very topical issue
now, people are concerned we are punishing kids
for the choices,
and all they know is their lives here,
and we're forcing them to go back to somewhere
where they don't know.
So I wanted to see how you would respond
if we completely ripped your life apart
based on the elementary school you went to.
Which you had no-
no relationship to.
So, how you felt, multiple that by about a million,
and that's what it's like.
- I felt like, honestly, that's just not fair.
It's just not, not fair.
- I felt like the world was about to stop.
- Honestly.
- I felt like everything was about to go upside down,
and I was going to have to skip all my classes,
so that was gonna be crazy.
- We already have our friends that we have in our classes,
and everyone is cool with each other,
and then to have to change classes and not know anybody
again and start over, and get comfortable again,
is like ridiculous.
- At first, I thought that I was gonna get some crazy
class next year,
but they said that from where I came from,
I didn't have to take any classes,
I was gonna be left normal.
I started feeling bad for him.
- No he didn't.
- Yeah I did.
- No he didn't.