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- (Jeff Bliss) Look at this fricking lady go off on kids
'cause they don't fricking get this crap? - (Mrs Phung) Bye.
- (Jeff Bliss) Man, if you would just get up and teach them
instead of handing them a fricking packet, yo.
- Oh, I saw this. - (Jeff Bliss) The kids in here
don't learn like that.
- (Mrs. Phung) Bye. - (Jeff Bliss) They need to learn face-to-face.
- (Mrs. Phung) Bye.
- (snickers) - (Jeff Bliss) Or you're just getting mad
'cause I'm pointing out the obvious.
- (Mrs. Phung) No, you're just wasting my time.
- (Jeff Bliss) No, I'm not wasting your time.
- The kid is trying so hard to hide the phone.
- (Jeff Bliss) You wants kids to come into your class,
and you want them to get excited for this?
You gotta come in here, you gotta make 'em excited.
If you want a kid to change and start doing better,
you gotta touch his fricking heart.
You can't expect a kid to change 'cause all you do is just tell 'em.
- Amen!
- Amen.
- He's right.
- That's kind of awesome. - (Jeff Bliss) I'm serious.
This is the future of this nation.
When you come in here, like you did last time,
and make a statement about, "Oh, this is my pay check."
Indeed, it is. - Oh my god.
- (Jeff Bliss) But this is my country's future,
and my education. - Preach it.
- That is the last guy out there you think could do this.
- (Jeff Bliss) But there's a link... when I'm not bitching...
- Oh god!
- (Jeff Bliss) ...but simply making an observation.
- Oh, dude, I love this.
- (Jeff Bliss) And now I will leave.
You're welcome. - "Now I will leave!" (giggles)
- (Jeff Bliss) If you would like, I'll teach you a little more
so you can actually learn how to teach a fricking class.
- Damn. - (Jeff Bliss) Because since I've got here,
I've been nothing but reading packets,
so don't try and take credibility for teaching me jack.
- (Mrs. Phung) Just go. Bye.
- My god! Wow.
- That was intense.
- That kid's got balls. (laughs)
- That's my life.
Reading packets, taking notes.
Teachers don't teach anymore.
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- (Finebros) So can you explain what went down in that video?
- Well, obviously, some kid stood up for what he believed in.
- Some white kid just walks up in the class, with long blond hair.
- Finally got fed up with having to deal with
a teacher being lazy as always, and stood up for himself.
- He's basically telling his teacher to [bleep] off,
and is just getting up in her face because, I mean,
that's actually not a bad idea if you want to get out of a packet.
You can just tell her how she's not doing a good job,
which it looks like she's not if she's giving packets.
- (Finebros) What did you think about his speech?
- I didn't expect him to be saying all of that.
- Because you can tell he wasn't-- I don't want to be mean--
but wasn't the most literate kid.
But maybe that's a good thing.
- You know, you can't judge based on appearance.
- He's got long hair, and sagging pants.
All those kids probably think he's just a loser stoner kid.
But that's some real stuff that he's talking about.
- I agreed with a lot of what he said, and I feel like if a teacher
is not doing what is his job I need to tell him about it.
Maybe not in that particular way, like embarrassing them
in the front of the class.
- The best thing about his speech is that he was passionate about it.
He believed what he was preaching
and he just wanted to get that out there, which I liked.
- Sometimes you really do need to tell the teacher,
"You're not doing anything.
You're just giving me a piece of paper.
You're going to go on your phone, text someone,
go on the computer, drink your coffee,
but you're not actually teaching."
- (Finebros) How did it make you feel while you were watching it?
- Inspired.
- I was actually really proud of him.
- I'm intrigued!
His words, they touch me.
- I actually felt like one of the students in the classroom,
so I would laugh through the whole thing.
- I was nervous.
I thought the teacher was going to get up and, like, bop!
- It made me feel like he's right 'cause some teachers are like that,
but then I kinda felt bad for the teacher too.
- I feel relieved that I'm not the only one thinking this.
- I want to go do something now! I want to go talk to my teachers
and be like, "Listen. You need to be a better teacher."
- (Finebros) So this kid's name is Jeff Bliss.
- Hi, Jeff Bliss!
- (Finebros) Do you think he was wrong for doing this
to the teacher? - No.
- No!
- He was obviously concerned about his education,
and if you care that much, you should say something.
- You have a voice as as a student.
You have free speech. It's one of the amendments.
- I'm not gonna say he was wrong,
but I'm also not gonna say he was right.
- He probably should've gone to the principal or something
and told him that the teacher wasn't doing anything,
and told him everything that he said, basically.
- But, you know, those ways aren't always efficient,
and it takes one person to rally up a whole class,
and that was a way to do it.
- People can comment all they want about how
this kid was mouthing off to an adult, and "He doesn't know respect!
Get out of the classroom," or whatever.
But, you know, there's a point when you've had enough
and you need to stand up for yourself regardless
of who's trying to put you down.
- If I was a teacher, I'd probably have a totally different perspective.
From a kid's point of view, we sit in class,
we don't interrupt you, we listen to you,
we do all our work, we turn in our work,
and we're there all day long, just like you.
At least you could do is listen to what we have to say.
- (Finebros) Do you agree about what he was saying about
education in the school system? - It being a little crappy
because all they do is give us packets
and we kind of have to figure it out? Partially.
- It just depends what teacher, but it does happen.
- I mean, it's more of public schools, definitely.
Now they're just giving us packets.
- A lot of public schools, they don't have enough funding
for a lot of the teachers, so there's a PE teacher
who's moved to math.
I've literally had teachers where they're one lesson
ahead of us in the class... which isn't good.
- I think it's gotten a lot worse as the years go by.
Teachers are trying to find easy ways out.
- A lot of teachers do that.
Sitting behind a desk and going on Amazon-- I've actually seen--
and just kind of giving out a packet.
And then you have a test on it at some point, you know?
And they wonder why our country's dropping in our education.
- (Finebros) Why do you think something like this goes viral?
- Because it's real. It's raw.
- Because it was funny.
- Because it's not something you see every day.
You don't see a kid with that much guts
going up in front of the class and calling out the teacher.
- 'Cause everybody relates to it.
It's literally something that everybody that's in school relates to.
- I'm sure they always wanted to see somebody bad-mouth the teacher.
Be like, "Oh, [bleep]. He's cussing out a teacher.
I should totally watch this."
But you'll start watching and you'll be,
"Hey, look. He's actually making a point."
- The guy does not look like someone who cares about
being at school.
- It's effective because he doesn't seem like the smartest kid.
It shows, like, "This is what the youth is these days?"
Apparently, we have to fix this because his teacher
isn't doing him any good.
- (Finebros) What makes a good teacher in your opinion?
- What makes a good teacher is a teacher who doesn't talk
like a teacher talks, talks like a human being.
- They have to actually care about your knowledge in general.
Not only for that course in class, but in life.
- A good teacher challenges you, or wants you to challenge everything.
It makes you question things.
- Someone who can be nice to the students,
who has a connection with the students,
who doesn't treat them like kids.
When a teacher leaves a good mark on my life,
I remember them forever.
- (Finebros) Do you think teachers are the ones to blame
for the problems in the education system? - No, not at all.
It's them, but it's also students.
- There's the teachers that just don't care,
and then there's also the students that just don't care.
So it's both of us.
- You can try and teach kids, getting to their heart,
but the likelihood of that happening is minimal.
- Everyone is to blame if they're to blame.
You can't generalize something like, "Oh, it's the teacher's fault,
or the principal's, or the student's."
It's whoever's fault it is, it's their fault.
- These teachers aren't getting the resources and the training
they need to do well, but at the same time,
if the teachers don't recognize that nothing
that's going on is helping them, and they're like,
"Oh, well. It's not my fault. It's the system's,"
and they don't do anything, then that's their fault.
- I don't necessarily find the teacher's fault either
'cause most teachers do not really get paid that much
and I honestly think they should be one of the highest paid professions
'cause they're educating the future of tomorrow.
- (Finebros) What do you want to say to other teens out there
who are dealing with teachers who aren't putting their all
into their education? - Don't do it like Jeff did.
- Stand up for what you believe in, but do it in a respectable way.
- Maybe talk to your teachers about different ways
to learn or to do things.
- Stop being lazy and actually take action.
- You can only reach your hand out so far, and if your teacher's not going
to give back, then just try and get as much as you can
out of the class by yourself.
- It's hard to be in a class with a teacher that you don't like--
trust me, I know.
But try to make the best out of the situations.
I mean, don't go getting expelled or suspended for doing stupid stuff.
- Either you can be the adolescent "I don't want to do this" guy
that goes, "Oh, I'm not going to be at school.
I'm gonna be a drop-out. I'm gonna be famous. Mm-hm."
Or you can actually take in whatever they're actually teaching
so you can actually go somewhere in life.
- Keep holding on. (laughing)
Like, stick it out. It'll get better. It's just high school.
- (Finebros) And what do you want to say to schools
and teachers, and how they can better reach all of you?
- Do your job.
- More one-on-one communication.
- For all teachers, just be more interactive in class.
Don't just get up, teach a lesson, and do a packet.
Make the students involved in it, and make the students
involved in their own learning.
- Just think of your students as if they were your kids or something.
Like, you want your kids to grow up and have a good education, right?
- Be excited when they come into your class and talk to them.
Those are always the teachers that I love,
the ones that talk and are excited,
and love what they're doing everyday.
- Respect goes two ways, 'cause I've also seen teachers
that treat us like humans, and no one ever talks in the class,
but then they wonder why the teachers
who always bitch at us and all that crap,
that we end up going out of our way just to piss them off.
But they don't seem to get it. I don't know why.
You'd think it's common sense, but guess not.
- You should stop thinking for yourself, and think for others,
which are your students, because, yeah, you might be
set in life, but we aren't because we're kind of screwed over right now,
and the only way that that can be better is if you help us.
- (Finebros) And so if you saw Jeff Bliss, like on the street, in person,
what would you do? - Say, "You go, Glenn Coco!"
- Like, "You rock. You should join Youth and Government."
- I'd give him a hug.
- I would shake his hand.
Be like, "You are a brave young man."
- You, sir, are an icon for students everywhere!
- Good job. You actually said what I guarantee you
everybody else in that class is thinking, but didn't say.
And get a hair cut.
- I'd give him a high five! (giggles)
I'd braid his hair. I don't know! (laughing)
- Thanks for watching this somewhat more serious episode of Teens React.
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- Goodbye.
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Awkward bye.
- Hey! Teachers! Touch our fricking hearts!
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