American High School: Straight Outta Orangeburg (Complete Series) | Real Stories

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1. Excellent documentary that everyone should see as it shows the great disparity b/w more affluent areas w/ school populations being predominantly white, Asian & Indian, w/ parents who are often highly educated & financially stable. So many people don’t realize what an insurmountable difference that must feel like. Schools & educators should be the most valued areas & professions in our society, w/ available resources that match that view. It’s a chronic & systemic issue & it’s so unfair all that we are dumping on teachers who are angels on Earth, imo.

   Love the principal & his dedication to the students & staff. Hoping & praying he’s able to shepherd in more & more positive change & that he’s provided w/ the tools & funding to make that happen.

2. Bunch of low-lives.

3. Such a great documentary! I would love to see an update from those who participated!

4. Vernon is a tad bit annoying 😖

5. Wow! I never knew they made a documentary series about a year in “oh-dubya”! I grew up in SC and was near enough to that area that we played them in football every year. It’s amazing to see so many people from there getting a chance to tell their stories. ♥️

6. jalena is so smart I love her!

7. The price of gas was $1.46 and Trump was in office. Fast forward, not even two years, and gas is $3.48 under Biden.

8. Great documentary I been waiting on the whole series for quite some time. These kids are great I really hope they become successful in life would be nice to get an update series on them just to see how they are doing.

9. Orangeburg from the dutch – William Of Orange by Jessica Brain William III was born on 4th November 1650. A Dutchman by birth, part of the House of Orange , he would later reign as King of England, Scotland and Ireland until his death in 1702.

10. America doesn’t care about black people, particularly black kids.

11. impressed with the ex-principal, a very intelligent man! Your a legend mate👍🏾

12. I am so impressed with this documentary! The principal of this great school is a TRUE mentor and man to be looked up to. Bravo!!

13. I'd like to know where Angela and Jalena are today. I hope they are both doing well professionally.

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15. How come this school not integrated.see no whites

16. Im invested now, 2016. I wanna know what happen to them, we are in 2022. I need an update.

17. tl;dr: discipline / self-discipline is the key to success.

    It's interesting and almost impossible to compare my school years (1980s independent day-school in England) with this school in South Carolina.

    1) Uniform. All pupils wore a uniform. There were actual standards for shoe colour and so on. We wore ties from the age of eight to eighteen.

    2) We had to address teachers as 'Sir', or 'Miss'. We had to stand up from our desk when a teacher entered the room.

    3) Every day there was an 'assembly' where all pupils and teachers gathered to hear news, updates, and 'words of wisdom' from the headmaster. We also sang hymns in the Church of England religious tradition.

    4) Academic, sport, musical prowess was publicly-praised. There were annual prizes for attainment. (I won the Divinity Prize in 1991, and I'm an atheist).

    Conclusion: my school did some things well, other things not so well.

    If I were to mark a single thing which differentiates those who succeed and don't – it isn't money, intelligence, good looks, luck – it's discipline.

    Instilling discipline, fostering self-discipline is it. Get that right, everything else follows.

18. Nice to see Teachers are still assholes…. Keep on producing rebels….

19. Fire Tie

20. These kids are wise and intelligent, well spoken and honest. It seems to me that they had to grow up way too fast. They speak from a place of a shared sorrow that I don’t think I’ve ever experienced, but they all have an insane amount of hope and that’s special.

21. Remember the titans.

22. Ignore what u were taught unless it deals with intelligence

23. Everyone has free will
    May God watch over us all. AMEN Philadelphia USA

24. I was hoping she got into GT it 💔. She will

25. You know the principal is getting his money back from our tax dollars. That's why he keeps count of the amount(every dollar) he hands out

26. We Americans are so very undereducated, all of us! We have no discipline of our selves outside of school. We are all equal UNDER THE LAW.

27. Love the gang signs. "School, school, school." The answer of somebody who doesn't want to be at school

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29. This just highlights the single biggest problem with education in this country. State and federal funding are directly dependent upon the students test scores. We no longer teach children, it isn’t about what they’re actually learning, retaining and how that information will help to shape them and prepare them for their future, it’s all about three weeks of filling in those bubbles. When a 15 year old student goes missing and the focus of concern is an empty desk during standardized testing, rather than her safety and well-being.

30. Been waiting to see how this ends, here we're.

31. I wonder what the minority at this school is if there is a minority population.

32. Like 45 my friend 👍 😊

33. I work at 7 11 in Chicago and before placing the hotdogs on the rollers I'll first dump them down my shirt. I also like to drink the milk out of gallon since we worship milk and cows. Most of the food there I have rolled my body on it. Velly good velly bad velly good boy

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