Charles Hallman welcomes reader responses to challman spokesman-recorder. November 12, November 12, November 3, November 8, This documentary touched me,…it was riveting!! It was sad to see Ms. Raven Coston, child and mother leave for Texas. I felt equally sad for the young man who was the father if the child. Did he receive his high school diploma? I pray that he is still involved with Raven and the child.
Furthermore, I pray that Raven can attend college. Raven Quattlebaum faced some challenges. Glad that she let God into her life. Watch Preview on PBS. See more from Days. TV tweet the day so far. Hoping 'Revolution' is about NBC's latest late-night uprising?
Got a TV question? Click on this post's byline to get Dave Walker's contact information. Also featured are Rufus McDowney, a bright and charasmaticyear-old sophomore who has been in and out of the juvenile justice system since the age of 13; Tiara Parker, an aspirational year-old senior who has good grades but may not be able to afford college; and Delaunte Bennett, an year-old sophomore who has been kicked out of numerous schools for getting into fights and now lags two school years behind other kids his age, in large part because he misses so many of his classes.
Like many other high-poverty schools, truancy, or chronic absenteeism, is an issue that plagues DC Met and is a leading indicator for dropping out. In , nearly 50 percent of students from DC Met could be classified as truant. In one powerful scene, the basketball coach reminds his team that if they do not show up for school, they cannot stay on the team — to which one of the players responds by walking out of the gym as cameras roll.
When we look in from this lens, the story is a different one — one of uncommon passion and commitment that teachers and school leaders, like those at DC Met, show as they do everything they can to help these kids succeed and see the value in their own education. Framed by complex and layered national and local politics, " Days" is a uniquely intimate journey through a year in the lives of students, teachers and school leaders in one Washington, D.
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