This School Helps Poor Kids Succeed, Teacher Unions Try To Shut It Down — Transcript

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1. 0:00this is our largest crew today so many
2. 0:05kids from one charter school take
3. 0:07advanced placement exams they had to
4. 0:09rent space at a Convention
5. 0:14Center kids who attend Rich suburban
6. 0:16school sometimes pay $500 an hour for
7. 0:20tutoring for
8. 0:22tests but these kids can't afford that
9. 0:26they're mostly from lowincome families
10. 0:28they attend a city Charter chain yet
11. 0:31they succeed outperforming their peers
12. 0:33by a landslide on math test Success
13. 0:36Academy kids outperform every school in
14. 0:38New York state other Charters are in
15. 0:41Blue on this graph government runs
16. 0:43schools in Gray success kids also
17. 0:45outperform other kids in English that is
18. 0:48redefining American public education
19. 0:50lame D young is Success Academy's Chief
20. 0:52schooling officer our Black and Hispanic
21. 0:57students um outperformed their peers by
22. 1:00double triple perent in their math by
23. 1:03peers you include the rich kids in the
24. 1:05suburbs yes but school is boring no it's
25. 1:11not when I first checked out this
26. 1:13Charter I was amazed that these kids
27. 1:16enjoyed School saying subjects like
28. 1:18reading were rocking awesome so you guys
29. 1:22look forward to going to school in the
30. 1:23morning yes it's why lots of parents
31. 1:26want to get their kids into Success
32. 1:28Academy I watched them line up hoping to
33. 1:32get their kids in this line goes on and
34. 1:37on go forever goes around the block what
35. 1:41do you do when you have thousands of
36. 1:43people just a few hundred slots they
37. 1:46hold a lottery the winners are happy
38. 1:49sadly there are many more losers let
39. 1:52mean my name going to come next time
40. 1:54yeah next
41. 1:58year not today that's so sad today the
42. 2:02Lottery's done electronically so we
43. 2:04don't get to see the thousands of kids
44. 2:07and parents who cry in disappointment
45. 2:10the chain wants to offer its magic to
46. 2:12more kids but they aren't allowed to New
47. 2:16York limits the number of charter
48. 2:18schools why because some people hate
49. 2:22them y aren now welcome here we will not
50. 2:25welcome you here politicians and the
51. 2:27teachers union have convinced many
52. 2:29people people that charter schools are
53. 2:31evil when Progressive Democrats are in
54. 2:34charge they shut some Charters down the
55. 2:36highest performing school in the state
56. 2:38upsetting even media leftists and it's
57. 2:41in Harlem is being shut down why shut
58. 2:45down a successful school why not give
59. 2:48parents more Choice here's a union Vice
60. 2:51President we have a lot of choice it's
61. 2:53do we need more Choice yes competition's
62. 2:57good but the education establishment
63. 2:59doesn't doesn't want competition
64. 3:01education Advocates say charter schools
65. 3:02are not the answer taking away from an
66. 3:04already shrinking budget in New York
67. 3:06City Public Schools that's completely
68. 3:08wrong it is spending on government
69. 3:10schools is not shrinking it's increasing
70. 3:13despite falling enrollment also Charters
71. 3:16like success get half what government
72. 3:19run schools get yet with less money
73. 3:23success does better why does success
74. 3:26succeed cuz we believe children can
75. 3:30and that is fund schools don't believe
76. 3:32children can no there's low expectations
77. 3:35that persist uh unfortunately and even
78. 3:39more so after the pandemic at other
79. 3:41schools pandemic related learning loss
80. 3:43is the new normal but not its success
81. 3:46every one of these kids has been
82. 3:48accepted by a
83. 3:50college here they cheer as friends open
84. 3:53their
85. 3:58acceptances that doesn't just happen one
86. 4:01reason it does is because the school day
87. 4:03here is longer kids often stay till 5:00
88. 4:06p.m. Charter teachers can be asked to
89. 4:08work more than the union would have
90. 4:10allowed they told us they don't mind but
91. 4:14you're going to burn out why aren't you
92. 4:15ticked off that's not an option for us
93. 4:18because we kind of have our eye on the
94. 4:20prize with these kids now some success
95. 4:23parents do pull their kids out because
96. 4:25of the extra hours required critics say
97. 4:28that raises average test scores for kids
98. 4:31who remain probably does but so what
99. 4:35high expectations are a good thing for
100. 4:37many kids thousands from low-income
101. 4:40families now succeed because this
102. 4:43Charter chain innovates at most schools
103. 4:46the principal sits in the principal's
104. 4:48office not a success no they're in the
105. 4:51classrooms what are they telling you
106. 4:53they're telling me things that I don't
107. 4:54see if I don't think of a great question
108. 4:57in this in the moment my principal's
109. 4:59able to kind of feed that to me we
110. 5:00expect not only change but fast change
111. 5:03some teachers don't like being watched
112. 5:06and criticized no but it's purposeful
113. 5:09and they're getting better and when they
114. 5:10get better their Scholars do better and
115. 5:13they feel as Educators more successful
116. 5:16uh and that's what you want most high
117. 5:17school students never even take advanced
118. 5:19placement tests of those who take them
119. 5:22in New York City only half pass but all
120. 5:25success kids take the tests and 80% pass
121. 5:30we were all pretty nervous about this
122. 5:31test it was like oh my god wow I'm
123. 5:34really about to take my first AP exam
124. 5:36you're a freshman most people don't take
125. 5:38that until junior or senior year if then
126. 5:41I think that makes me more proud these
127. 5:43kids must be miserable they're working
128. 5:45all the time why are they miserable
129. 5:47they're having fun
130. 5:51learning success offers dance and other
131. 5:54activities it's not schoolwork all the
132. 5:56time chess debate theater music those
133. 6:00aren't add-ons those are part of our day
134. 6:03this student was surprised that her
135. 6:04friend at a government run school had
136. 6:06few extracurriculars to put on her
137. 6:08college application I was like don't you
138. 6:11like have any like leadership positions
139. 6:13like you should just go for student
140. 6:14council and they didn't have one and I
141. 6:16was like that's shocking well you should
142. 6:18like make one and they were like oh like
143. 6:19my school doesn't do that I was like
144. 6:21okay how about like a club and she was
145. 6:23like we still don't do that success does
146. 6:26make its teachers work harder and longer
147. 6:29some quit but so what other teachers
148. 6:32like it here and the goal is for kids to
149. 6:35succeed and they do I feel like it's
150. 6:38unfair that not not everybody gets to
151. 6:40get this opportunity if sa doesn't exist
152. 6:42then we wouldn't all exist and we
153. 6:44wouldn't have all the cool opportunities
154. 6:46that we have it's great that the kids
155. 6:48here could have a choice and pick a
156. 6:50better school all kids should have that
157. 6:55choice choice is good in all things you
158. 6:59two has millions of channels they're
159. 7:01everywhere here competition makes me
160. 7:04work harder if you want to help us
161. 7:06compete please click that button