Lakeview High School Student Interviews

Students at Lake View High School details their frustrations with the school's teachers.

00:10Copy video clip URL Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” plays over still images of students. 

00:50Copy video clip URL Interview with a student wearing sunglasses. He describes an incident with a teacher in which he was suspended for hitting a teacher his freshman year. 

01:21Copy video clip URL A Black student describes one of his teachers as “prejudiced” and details the problems that he’s had with them. He thinks that teachers come to class high. 

02:19Copy video clip URL A female student describes the indifference to their students shown by Lake View teachers. 

03:02Copy video clip URL A student with a thin mustache details the irresponsibility of teachers at Lake View and asserts that some of them need to retire.

03:45Copy video clip URL Other students talk about the absence of help for students and the lack of concern about learning on the part of the teachers. 

04:54Copy video clip URL A student with a goatee explains how ineffective the teachers at Lake View are. They don’t explain enough, he says. 

06:12Copy video clip URL Students say that the only thing they like about school is going home. The image freezes and “Teach Your Children” by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young plays. 

07:04Copy video clip URL End of video.