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- (Jeff Bliss) Look at this 
fricking lady go off on kids

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'cause they don't fricking get this crap?
- (Mrs Phung) Bye.

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- (Jeff Bliss) Man, if you would
just get up and teach them

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instead of handing them
a fricking packet, yo.

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- Oh, I saw this.
- (Jeff Bliss) The kids in here

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don't learn like that.

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- (Mrs. Phung) Bye.
- (Jeff Bliss) They need to learn face-to-face.

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- (Mrs. Phung) Bye.

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- (snickers)
- (Jeff Bliss) Or you're just getting mad

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'cause I'm pointing out the obvious.

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- (Mrs. Phung) No, 
you're just wasting my time.

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- (Jeff Bliss) No, I'm not wasting your time.

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- The kid is trying
so hard to hide the phone.

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- (Jeff Bliss) You wants kids 
to come into your class,

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and you want them to get excited for this?

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You gotta come in here,
you gotta make 'em excited.

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If you want a kid to change 
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you gotta touch his fricking heart.

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You can't expect a kid to change
'cause all you do is just tell 'em.

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- Amen!

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- Amen.

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- He's right.

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- That's kind of awesome.
- (Jeff Bliss) I'm serious.

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This is the future of this nation.

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When you come in here,
like you did last time,

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and make a statement about,
"Oh, this is my pay check."

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Indeed, it is.
- Oh my god.

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- (Jeff Bliss) But this 
is my country's future,

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and my education.
- Preach it.

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- That is the last guy 
out there you think could do this.

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- (Jeff Bliss) But there's a link...
when I'm not bitching...

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- Oh god!

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- (Jeff Bliss) ...but simply 
making an observation.

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- Oh, dude, I love this.

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- (Jeff Bliss) And now I will leave.

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You're welcome.
- "Now I will leave!" (giggles)

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- (Jeff Bliss) If you would like,
I'll teach you a little more

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so you can actually learn 
how to teach a fricking class.

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- Damn.
- (Jeff Bliss) Because since I've got here,

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I've been nothing but reading packets,

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so don't try and take 
credibility for teaching me jack.

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- (Mrs. Phung) Just go. Bye.

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- My god! Wow.

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- That was intense.

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- That kid's got balls. (laughs)

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- That's my life.

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Reading packets, taking notes.

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Teachers don't teach anymore.

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- (Finebros) So can you explain 
what went down in that video?

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- Well, obviously, some kid 
stood up for what he believed in.

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- Some white kid just walks up 
in the class, with long blond hair.

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- Finally got fed up 
with having to deal with

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a teacher being lazy as always,
and stood up for himself.

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- He's basically telling
his teacher to [bleep] off,

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and is just getting up
in her face because, I mean,

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that's actually not a bad idea
if you want to get out of a packet.

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You can just tell her 
how she's not doing a good job,

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which it looks like she's not 
if she's giving packets.

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- (Finebros) What did 
you think about his speech?

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- I didn't expect him 
to be saying all of that.

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- Because you can tell he wasn't--
I don't want to be mean--

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but wasn't the most literate kid.

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But maybe that's a good thing.

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- You know, you can't judge 
based on appearance.

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- He's got long hair, and sagging pants.

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All those kids probably think
he's just a loser stoner kid.

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But that's some real stuff 
that he's talking about.

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- I agreed with a lot of what he said,
and I feel like if a teacher

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is not doing what is his job
I need to tell him about it.

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Maybe not in that particular way,
like embarrassing them

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in the front of the class.

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- The best thing about his speech
is that he was passionate about it.

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He believed what he was preaching

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and he just wanted to get that 
out there, which I liked.

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- Sometimes you really do
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"You're not doing anything.

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You're just giving me a piece of paper.

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You're going to go 
on your phone, text someone,

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go on the computer, drink your coffee,

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but you're not actually teaching."

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- (Finebros) How did it make you feel
while you were watching it?

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- Inspired.

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- I was actually really proud of him.

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- I'm intrigued!

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His words, they touch me.

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- I actually felt like one 
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so I would laugh through the whole thing.

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- I was nervous.

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I thought the teacher 
was going to get up and, like, bop!

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- It made me feel like he's right
'cause some teachers are like that,

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but then I kinda felt bad 
for the teacher too.

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- I feel relieved that I'm 
not the only one thinking this.

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- I want to go do something now!
I want to go talk to my teachers

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and be like, "Listen.
You need to be a better teacher."

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- (Finebros) So this kid's 
name is Jeff Bliss.

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- Hi, Jeff Bliss!

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- (Finebros) Do you think
he was wrong for doing this

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to the teacher?
- No.

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- No!

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- He was obviously concerned 
about his education,

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and if you care that much,
you should say something.

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- You have a voice as as a student.

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You have free speech.
It's one of the amendments.

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- I'm not gonna say he was wrong,

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but I'm also not gonna say he was right.

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- He probably should've gone
to the principal or something

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and told him that the teacher
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and told him everything 
that he said, basically.

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- But, you know, those ways 
aren't always efficient,

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and it takes one person 
to rally up a whole class,

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and that was a way to do it.

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- People can comment all they want about how

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this kid was mouthing off to an adult,
and "He doesn't know respect!

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Get out of the classroom," or whatever.

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But, you know, there's a point 
when you've had enough

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and you need to stand up
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of who's trying to put you down.

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- If I was a teacher, I'd probably have
a totally different perspective.

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From a kid's point of view,
we sit in class,

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we don't interrupt you, we listen to you,

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we do all our work, we turn in our work,

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and we're there all day long, just like you.

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At least you could do 
is listen to what we have to say.

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- (Finebros) Do you agree 
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education in the school system?
- It being a little crappy

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because all they do is give us packets

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and we kind of have 
to figure it out? Partially.

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- It just depends what teacher,
but it does happen.

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- I mean, it's more 
of public schools, definitely.

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Now they're just giving us packets.

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- A lot of public schools,
they don't have enough funding

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for a lot of the teachers,
so there's a PE teacher

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who's moved to math.

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I've literally had teachers 
where they're one lesson

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ahead of us in the class...
which isn't good.

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- I think it's gotten a lot worse
as the years go by.

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Teachers are trying to find easy ways out.

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- A lot of teachers do that.

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Sitting behind a desk and going
on Amazon-- I've actually seen--

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and just kind of giving out a packet.

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And then you have a test 
on it at some point, you know?

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And they wonder why our country's
dropping in our education.

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- (Finebros) Why do you think 
something like this goes viral?

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- Because it's real. It's raw.

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- Because it was funny.

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- Because it's not something 
you see every day.

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You don't see a kid with that much guts

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going up in front of the class
and calling out the teacher.

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- 'Cause everybody relates to it.

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It's literally something that everybody 
that's in school relates to.

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- I'm sure they always wanted to see 
somebody bad-mouth the teacher.

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Be like, "Oh, [bleep]. 
He's cussing out a teacher.

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I should totally watch this."

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But you'll start watching and you'll be,

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"Hey, look. He's actually making a point."

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- The guy does not look like 
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being at school.

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- It's effective because he 
doesn't seem like the smartest kid.

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It shows, like, "This is 
what the youth is these days?"

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Apparently, we have to fix this
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isn't doing him any good.

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- (Finebros) What makes 
a good teacher in your opinion?

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- What makes a good teacher
is a teacher who doesn't talk

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like a teacher talks,
talks like a human being.

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- They have to actually care 
about your knowledge in general.

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Not only for that course 
in class, but in life.

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- A good teacher challenges you,
or wants you to challenge everything.

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It makes you question things.

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- Someone who can be nice to the students,

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who has a connection with the students,

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who doesn't treat them like kids.

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When a teacher leaves 
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I remember them forever.

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- (Finebros) Do you think 
teachers are the ones to blame

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for the problems in the education system?
- No, not at all.

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It's them, but it's also students.

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- There's the teachers that just don't care,

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and then there's also the students
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So it's both of us.

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- You can try and teach kids, 
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but the likelihood 
of that happening is minimal.

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- Everyone is to blame if they're to blame.

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You can't generalize something like,
"Oh, it's the teacher's fault,

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or the principal's, or the student's."

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It's whoever's fault it is,
it's their fault.

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- These teachers aren't getting 
the resources and the training

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they need to do well, but at the same time,

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if the teachers don't recognize that nothing

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that's going on is helping them,
and they're like,

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"Oh, well. It's not my fault.
It's the system's,"

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and they don't do anything,
then that's their fault.

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- I don't necessarily find
the teacher's fault either

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'cause most teachers do 
not really get paid that much

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and I honestly think they should be 
one of the highest paid professions

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'cause they're educating 
the future of tomorrow.

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- (Finebros) What do you want 
to say to other teens out there

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who are dealing with teachers 
who aren't putting their all

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into their education?
- Don't do it like Jeff did.

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- Stand up for what you believe in,
but do it in a respectable way.

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- Maybe talk to your teachers 
about different ways

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to learn or to do things.

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- Stop being lazy and actually take action.

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- You can only reach your hand out so far,
and if your teacher's not going

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to give back, then just try 
and get as much as you can

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out of the class by yourself.

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- It's hard to be in a class 
with a teacher that you don't like--

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trust me, I know.

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But try to make the best
out of the situations.

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I mean, don't go getting expelled 
or suspended for doing stupid stuff.

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- Either you can be the adolescent
"I don't want to do this" guy

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that goes, "Oh, I'm 
not going to be at school.

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I'm gonna be a drop-out.
I'm gonna be famous. Mm-hm."

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Or you can actually take in 
whatever they're actually teaching

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so you can actually go somewhere in life.

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- Keep holding on. (laughing)

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Like, stick it out.
It'll get better. It's just high school.

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- (Finebros) And what do
you want to say to schools

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and teachers, and how 
they can better reach all of you?

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- Do your job.

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- More one-on-one communication.

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- For all teachers, just be 
more interactive in class.

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Don't just get up, teach a lesson,
and do a packet.

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Make the students involved in it,
and make the students

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involved in their own learning.

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- Just think of your students 
as if they were your kids or something.

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Like, you want your kids to grow up 
and have a good education, right?

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- Be excited when they come 
into your class and talk to them.

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Those are always the teachers that I love,

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the ones that talk and are excited,

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and love what they're doing everyday.

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- Respect goes two ways,
'cause I've also seen teachers

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that treat us like humans,
and no one ever talks in the class,

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but then they wonder why the teachers

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who always bitch at us and all that crap,

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that we end up going out 
of our way just to piss them off.

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But they don't seem to get it.
I don't know why.

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You'd think it's 
common sense, but guess not.

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- You should stop thinking for yourself,
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which are your students,
because, yeah, you might be

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set in life, but we aren't because 
we're kind of screwed over right now,

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and the only way that
that can be better is if you help us.

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- (Finebros) And so if you saw Jeff Bliss,
like on the street, in person,

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what would you do?
- Say, "You go, Glenn Coco!"

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- Like, "You rock. You should join 
Youth and Government."

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- I'd give him a hug.

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- I would shake his hand.

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Be like, "You are a brave young man."

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- You, sir, are an icon 
for students everywhere!

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- Good job. You actually said
what I guarantee you

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everybody else in that class
is thinking, but didn't say.

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And get a hair cut.

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- I'd give him a high five! (giggles)

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I'd braid his hair. I don't know! (laughing)

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- Thanks for watching this somewhat
more serious episode of Teens React.

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so make sure that you subscribe.

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Click the link below to watch them all.

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- Goodbye.

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(silence)

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Awkward bye.

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- Hey! Teachers! Touch our fricking hearts!

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