Help Summer Jordan go to College
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We all remember the “bad kids” from high school: the pregnant teen, the kid who was always getting into fights, the truant student, or the one who just couldn’t keep up with the rest of us.
We take kids who can’t seem to stay on track and write them off, dismissing them with summary labels. It’s simpler that way — if we know what they are, we don’t really have to think about why. So more often than not, the roots of a “bad kid’s” difficulties are left unexplored, as they would most likely force us to look at histories of abuse, neglect, abandonment, addiction or possibly even that huge unspoken problem that plagues our public education system: intractable, generational poverty.
Summer Jordan is a talented artist who attends Black Rock High School in the Mojave Desert town of Yucca Valley, Calif. An alternative public school for at-risk students, Black Rock is cautiously regarded, even in its own community, as the school where the “bad kids” go, despite consistently high graduation rates. But at Black Rock High, the staff does not judge at-risk students as failures; rather, they see them as fragile youths who are more than likely dealing with problems outside of school that would daunt most adults. The students and their problems are much more complicated than they may initially seem.
Luckily for kids like Summer, the school’s staff is not afraid of asking what impediments might be keeping its students from doing their best in school. The approach seems obvious, but it’s quite revolutionary: It is the simple understanding that for a student who’s hungry, or not sure where he is going to sleep that night, or afraid of someone she lives with, learning is impossible, no matter how innovative the curriculum or teaching methods.
Your donation will be helping Summer Jordan fulfill her dreams of going to college. Not only will this include tuition for the Art Institute of the Inland Empire, but also support her family while she is earning her degree. Thank you for your support! If you cannot donate monetarily please share the link.
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We take kids who can’t seem to stay on track and write them off, dismissing them with summary labels. It’s simpler that way — if we know what they are, we don’t really have to think about why. So more often than not, the roots of a “bad kid’s” difficulties are left unexplored, as they would most likely force us to look at histories of abuse, neglect, abandonment, addiction or possibly even that huge unspoken problem that plagues our public education system: intractable, generational poverty.
Summer Jordan is a talented artist who attends Black Rock High School in the Mojave Desert town of Yucca Valley, Calif. An alternative public school for at-risk students, Black Rock is cautiously regarded, even in its own community, as the school where the “bad kids” go, despite consistently high graduation rates. But at Black Rock High, the staff does not judge at-risk students as failures; rather, they see them as fragile youths who are more than likely dealing with problems outside of school that would daunt most adults. The students and their problems are much more complicated than they may initially seem.
Luckily for kids like Summer, the school’s staff is not afraid of asking what impediments might be keeping its students from doing their best in school. The approach seems obvious, but it’s quite revolutionary: It is the simple understanding that for a student who’s hungry, or not sure where he is going to sleep that night, or afraid of someone she lives with, learning is impossible, no matter how innovative the curriculum or teaching methods.
Your donation will be helping Summer Jordan fulfill her dreams of going to college. Not only will this include tuition for the Art Institute of the Inland Empire, but also support her family while she is earning her degree. Thank you for your support! If you cannot donate monetarily please share the link.
www.thebadkidsmovie.com
www.facebook.com/thebadkidsmovie
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Low Key Pictures
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Los Angeles, CA
Keith Fulton
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