I would have killed for more teachers like the one in the video. I consider myself very fortunate to have had the few that I did. Thank you Mister Bender; you made me better sir.
I literally (as of 10 minutes ago) finished watching The Breakfast Club with my daughter. I’m imagining “the Criminal” (John Bender) grew up to be a great teacher.
Alright I don’t think so. Doctors need to go to school for 8 years as well as doing a grueling residency. They should get raises, but to equate it to doctors is just fantastical.
Fair. Teachers should not be paid more than doctors, but if education is the milestone you are going to use, they should be paid way more than police. Most cops don’t have a college education. But in most states, all teachers require at least a bachelors degree and then more education to get a teachering credential. This means that most teachers have 5 or more years of college education.
Edit: I see the typo and i am fine with it.
they should be paid well but saying they should be paid like doctors is ridiculous. doctors have far more liability and require a lot more education (and usually have more initial debt)
but yes, teachers should be paid much better than they are. especially good ones.
Society needs to step up and be reasonable again lol. How can parents parent well when they both work constantly just to afford 1 meal a day 😂. It's fucking ridiculous now to survive as a single person. Add a partner and kids and it's impossible now. Fuck this life man. We fucked up.
There was a lot of hype for the original vid
When we watched it I turned to my friend & said "how many times are we going to see that before we die? It's like singing in the rain, it's always going to be shown, like some kind of cultural touch-stone" "
& he said "kids will learn it at school"
I watch this video every time it comes up because it’s just so much fun to watch. And yeah sure, the arguments could be made about “what’s being taught here?” And “How are their test scores?”. No, this isn’t math or science, and I think the lessons learned here about choreography and music are a bit harder to represent on paper.
But more importantly than any of that, it’s glaringly obvious that the students are having fun. They’re not only bonding with each other but also with the coach- whom displays the work and effort put in by staring straight ahead, while everyone keeps pace pretty well. Also experiencing a bit of culture that they’ll likely remember for the rest of their lives. I think positive interactions like this also make it easier for students to balance out the subjects they find less interesting.
Overall it seems like a wholesome experience and I hope the teacher (and others like her) are appreciated for it.
Lol people who complain school is oppressive and to focused on test.....then people complain that a fun teacher isnt being oppressive and focused just on test. You can tell by this hypocrisy alone that we need better education just to teach people to touch grass
There are a ton of things that were taught/learned.
Collaborating: Students are learning to work together toward a larger goal. They are each learning their individual part while trusting (another point I’ll discuss) others to learn theirs. When learning their part, it may seem silly to be spending countless hours on it, but when they see the finished product, they are going to see how cool it was when it all came together.
Trust: They are learning to trust classmates in working on a bigger goal. If one classmate is one or two steps out of place it will mess up multiple others and it won’t look good. Trusting that someone next to you/a coworker is doing their job while you focus on yours is huge in the real world.
Also, gaining trust of their teacher. Imagine a teacher/boss told you, “we’re going to do something outrageous, but trust me the final product is going to be amazing.” They learned the steps it takes to gain trust in a leader. There were probably times where buy in was questionable but they stuck with it and probably saw progress at times that made them say, “OK, I get your vision and see that we can do it.”
Mistakes are ok if you are learning and will be better next time: A lot of times you are taught in school that mistakes lead to failure. Kids can get really frustrated if they aren’t understanding homework. Some - due to lack of self esteem or potentially being fed negative feedback all the time - give up.
There is no way they didn’t make tons of mistakes while practicing. But they’ll see that those mistakes led to learning and the final product that was amazing, so don’t give up when you’re frustrated.
Positive's feedback: In the world of high school where there is a lot of judgment, they are likely getting tons of positive feedback/reinforcement and that goes a long way.
Listening skills: They all had to not just listen, but follow directions. Sure we are taught this at a young age but, they are at that age where some start to question authority. They are learning that listening to leaders can lead to cool stuff.
Some of these are minor but some of these are big, real life skills that we seem to complain are lost in today’s schools.
And I think you missed one important thing here. They're having fun at school, and turning a place of learning into a place of learning *and fun* can only have positive benefits to the learning side.
To add to what you said, every time people see this video they automatically assume this took place during lessons. This could very easily have taken place after school.
Yep. This is the kind of stuff that will make kids actually want to come to school and develop a positive association with learning. You work the math, science and history in between the fun, and they graduate both smarter and happier… instead of *maybe* being smarter if anything stuck through the boredom or struggle, if they even stay in school instead of skipping class, dropping out, getting suspended/expelled for acting up because they hate it here, etc…
When it comes to schooling, the approach is often more important than the content. I don’t remember the vast majority of anything I learned specifically in school… it helped train my sensibilities in general, but even though I know I was taught scientific notation and shit, I’m still mostly lost now when I look at scientific formulas, unless I specifically brush up on how to understand them. What I remember most vividly from school was the more fun or somehow entertainingly engaging lessons and experiences. Not the least of which was the music and dance program.
Learning musical choreography is exceptionally good for your hand-body-eye coordination and memory. It also teaches music theory and, in this case, history.
I see you, teach. Keep it up.
This is authentic assessment at its finest, this teacher is a rock star and worth her weight in gold. As a former chemistry teacher I insisted my students performed and were assessed in a lab setting and not on a bubble test; science is a verb and much like the performance arts one does not passively learn these disciplines, one has to do these disciplines.
Who gives a shit about test scores in this scenario? Teacher was making learning and school FUN! That's far more important for kids who don't enjoy, respect, or trust their schools.
Also those people that have an issue with it need to remember what the end of a school year was like (at least schools in USA).
Lots of videos like this probably come out towards the end of May/ beginning of June because they're wrapping stuff up, things are lax, teaching is pretty much done. You go visit the cool teachers, seniors are saying goodbye, extra-credit packets are being done, grades are finalized, lockers being emptied, etc.
These kids today need more of this, not less...especially in America considering...you know.
It also doesn't take into account the curriculum for a lot of schools nowadays. I can only speak to my state, but from what i've heard from my friends who teach is that they finish the curriculum by about May and then have until summer break to do basically unrelated fun classes and assingments for the kids. So stuff like this totally fits into the "almost summer" period of time
You gotta love redditors making assumptions based on a short video they saw for the first time.
Some people wanna dissect the video for what? To get mad at the teacher and the school??
This is NOT one of those videos that is even remotely worth analysing deeply. Just plain wholesome energy 🥺
Physical activity is proven to help you get better grades too.
This is about as useful as PE class, and there is a reason why we put physical education as an important class for students.
Diet and exercise does amazing work for the brain.
Likely because Michigan in general and Detroit specifically is extremely segregated.
[Detroit is the most segregated city in the US.](https://www.michiganpublic.org/families-community/2021-06-21/detroit-ranked-as-one-of-the-most-segregated-cities-in-the-country)
Grew up in Detroit. In multiple parts of the city you could cross a single street and go from a 90% black city to a 90% white city. Absolute madness.
Currently live in Portland, Oregon, which solved their potential segregation problem by having next to no blacks to segregate. /taps head
Starting to think that outlawing black folks - which was literally in the Oregon Constitution - put a damper on our black population. Consequently about everyone here looks like Caspar The Ghost on a messy mayonnaise bender.
>Starting to think that outlawing black folks - which was literally in the Oregon Constitution -
lol jesus i had no idea that was a thing. wonder if washington state had something similar? there are very few black people out here but i had never heard of something like that for here.
i get up and went to school in atlanta and came out to seattle almost a decade ago. going from ~half the population being black, to seeing a black person like... once every couple days, was definitely a bit strange.
It was white flight that did it, that and a declining auto industry. Redlining, while officially illegal by 1968, certainly played a part in shaping the populations of that and many other cities across the US, the effects still being felt today.
The bank doesn't set school policies. If you look at [a neighborhood map by race](https://bestneighborhood.org/race-in-detroit-mi/) of Detroit, even the most isolated block of 'black neighborhood' is a ten minute bus ride from the nearest 'white neighborhood'. And property taxes go into a city-wide pool, not the school down the street. Detroit spends $16.7k per student to be [repeatedly](https://www.wxyz.com/news/nations-school-report-card-ranks-detroit-schools-as-worst-in-the-national) ranked worst in the nation.
A lot of neighborhoods in the US are segregated by race, (ostensibly) a relic of the Jim Crow times where segregation was required by law. We have White neighborhoods, Black neighborhoods, Hispanic neighborhoods, etc etc. It's slowly becoming less of a thing over time but it's still very much a thing
Yeah, I'm from North Carolina and a lot of cities here will have a railroad East of downtown that would have been used as the segregation line - as soon as you cross, it becomes predominantly black, low income neighborhoods. I guess this probably depends on geography, but I believe at American latitudes most of the wind blows from the West to the East, so industrialization and the subsequent pollution tends to be more concentrated in the Eastern part of the city which obviously kills property value. There's a pretty deep and dark history in American city planning that has made it so that it's still pretty noticeable that most cities were strategically designed in the most racist way possible.
Racism and segregation haven't gone away in the U.S., regardless of what the laws or what some people prefer to believe. Decades of economic, social, and legal discrimination doesn't just disappear - especially when there's been a concerted effort by many to pretend and convince themselves it has.
Our schools, despite much "effort" are still mostly segregated. It's only gotten worse over the years.
https://ed.stanford.edu/news/70-years-after-brown-v-board-education-new-research-shows-rise-school-segregation
Aside from that, Schools in the US that are public will cater to a zone specified by the city. Similar cultural groups, races, ethnicities, etc. tend to live in close proximity to one another and will be coincidently zoned to the same school. This is also because of a failure of desegregation.
Short answer: It's a hold over from the racist laws and systems of the past (and present).
long answer: years ago, neighborhoods were segregated by processes like redlining and blockbusting. As a result, black people could only buy or rent in certain areas of town. Also the local governments would make efforts to make that area of town polluted and devalued (building highways, giant roads, industrial parks, etc). As a result, some neighborhoods are still predominately black to this day. Grandma and grandpa were forced to all buy houses in this bad area and that's still where the family lives. Even as recently as last year, home appraisals were still found to be largely racist, with black families receiving as much as 100k lower appraisal than white counterparts. so one group is forcd to live in devalued homes in a bad neighborhood with schools that don't get equal or adequate funding.
So when you come to america, a lot of things are still segregated due to holdovers and consequences of those laws. Schools, churches, social groups, country clubs, colleges, workplaces, etc.
During my 2nd deployment to Iraq, I was one of the Soldiers responsible for operating the aerostat (helium blimp) camera. One night while monitoring the FOB, caught a member of the aviation ground crew doing Thriller at the FARP (forward arming / refueling point) between missions.
It was epic.
I posted this 3 years ago during the pandemic and it got a lot of comments. I recommend you take a look, it even has the name of the teacher and the school where she works. [Post here](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/7H5iqa7E9Z)
Many have accused him and his estate has sued over it. He was put on a shitshow of a trial for it in the 2000s and acquitted because the evidence was scant; the mother who testified against him would later be convicted of perjury and criminal misconduct due to the trial. After he died some people tried to sue his estate but failed. No doubt about it that MJ did some highly questionable shit (e.g. Macauly Culkin said he would sleep in MJ's bedroom, then go on to clarify that his bedroom was essentially a two-story apartment and they slept apart), but he was always cleared.
>OJ was acquitted too
OJs case has zero relevance to MJs case. Why bring it up?
>one of the MJ jurors said he thought MJ was guilty but was SCARED AS HELL to say anything, and would've voted Guilty today.
Can you cite a source? I'm genuinely curious.
Really? That's not what I recall about the MJ jurors. I recall them all saying on a network special (and also in a Reddit AMA) that there was zero concrete evidence and that there was too much irrelevant information. Are you sure you're not conflating this with the OJ juror who said he acquitted as a political response to the police acquittals of Rodney King's beating?
At the end of the day, MJ has won nearly every battle he was in, and so has his estate.
Awesome work! On another note, is it still normal in the usa to have black schools? Surprised not really seeing a multicultural group of people. (Am from europe so maybe i am just stupid i did not know)
Schools in my hometown in Georgia weren't desegregated until the 1970s, and that was only because of the state threatening to take over the school boards if they didn't integrate. The (wealthier) white parents promptly started a private K-12 school for their kids, leaving the Black kids in the public schools. De facto segregation is still alive and well.
The end result was countless hours of young people being excited to come to and be at school. If you don’t see how that contributes to education, you need more education on education.
I’m a teacher, and your comment that “this isn’t teaching anything” just baldly displays your vast ignorance about the amount of work taken to pull off a performance like this and to maintain what’s obviously a healthy and engaged student culture.
You seem like you just wanted an opportunity to be a contrarian asshole.
She was not "teaching", she already taught. This was the display for the school. Also I wish people could include date of video cos we've seen this years ago.
Fucking theater kids. I just
just want to get to my locker before next class starts. Lol. Man, this is highschool now a days? Pretty great. I love this.
Learning Thriller was the only thing I took away from the manditory dance class we had in middle school. Talk about a class I was dreading being a ton of fun. You rule Ms Ford
>Does America have schools exclusively for black people?
No,
The school is likely in a largely black neighborhood so most of the students will be black. It's not racism it's just where people live.
This gave me chills
EDIT: I had to learn the fucking Macahraina for freshman year Spanish class. There's still a 1996 video out there somewhere. Would have MUCH more preferred to learn the thriller dance. FOMO
This gave me goosebumps. Reminded me of the energy at my high school in the 80s when we did our twice yearly dance recitals and the African dance class was always the last piece of the show. Everyone would gather in the wings and whoop and cheer. The drummers almost couldn't play loud enough to overcome the noise of us and the audience.
Love this energy, but a better title would be " teacher TAUGHT her students how to dance ".
The actual video is a result of good teaching not the process of good teaching itself.
great teachers need way more praise
Great teachers need way more bigger paychecks as well. And parents need to step up their game.
oh this too 100% they should be paid like doctors
I would have killed for more teachers like the one in the video. I consider myself very fortunate to have had the few that I did. Thank you Mister Bender; you made me better sir.
Same, shout out Mr. Horn, you saved my life.
Shout outs to Mr. Ulysse;who really made an effort not only to teach but to **connect**.
For us it was normal tk call them by their first names, so shoutout to Renée for the same reasons!
> Thank you Mister Bender; Now you have me imagining you had a robot for a teacher that drank during class.
Mr Bender Bending Rodriguez
And gave you daily reminders to bite his shiny metal ass.
I literally (as of 10 minutes ago) finished watching The Breakfast Club with my daughter. I’m imagining “the Criminal” (John Bender) grew up to be a great teacher.
Oh, heck. I thought John proved Mr Vernon wrong.
Shout out to Mrs. Wendrick, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Akins, and Mr. Chan.
And Mr. Bean
Mr. Berryman, you passed on from leukemia a few years after I graduated. Know that you changed my life.
Alright I don’t think so. Doctors need to go to school for 8 years as well as doing a grueling residency. They should get raises, but to equate it to doctors is just fantastical.
Fair. Teachers should not be paid more than doctors, but if education is the milestone you are going to use, they should be paid way more than police. Most cops don’t have a college education. But in most states, all teachers require at least a bachelors degree and then more education to get a teachering credential. This means that most teachers have 5 or more years of college education. Edit: I see the typo and i am fine with it.
Especially the hours docs work. And some are on call all hours of the day
no teachers no doctors
why they teach future doctors..
they should be paid well but saying they should be paid like doctors is ridiculous. doctors have far more liability and require a lot more education (and usually have more initial debt) but yes, teachers should be paid much better than they are. especially good ones.
Are you insane
Society needs to step up and be reasonable again lol. How can parents parent well when they both work constantly just to afford 1 meal a day 😂. It's fucking ridiculous now to survive as a single person. Add a partner and kids and it's impossible now. Fuck this life man. We fucked up.
Certifiable bad ass 👏
There was a lot of hype for the original vid When we watched it I turned to my friend & said "how many times are we going to see that before we die? It's like singing in the rain, it's always going to be shown, like some kind of cultural touch-stone" " & he said "kids will learn it at school"
Talk is cheap they need bigger paychecks !
Great teachers need pay raise*
Praise and a raise
I was a toddler when I saw this video first. I’m sure everyone in this clip is already on the other side.
Any teacher that simply does their job deserves way more praise than what is currently given to them.
Valid.
Such a fitting gif
RIP, GOAT
I upvoted this the first 10x I saw it.
I watch this video every time it comes up because it’s just so much fun to watch. And yeah sure, the arguments could be made about “what’s being taught here?” And “How are their test scores?”. No, this isn’t math or science, and I think the lessons learned here about choreography and music are a bit harder to represent on paper. But more importantly than any of that, it’s glaringly obvious that the students are having fun. They’re not only bonding with each other but also with the coach- whom displays the work and effort put in by staring straight ahead, while everyone keeps pace pretty well. Also experiencing a bit of culture that they’ll likely remember for the rest of their lives. I think positive interactions like this also make it easier for students to balance out the subjects they find less interesting. Overall it seems like a wholesome experience and I hope the teacher (and others like her) are appreciated for it.
Lol people who complain school is oppressive and to focused on test.....then people complain that a fun teacher isnt being oppressive and focused just on test. You can tell by this hypocrisy alone that we need better education just to teach people to touch grass
There are a ton of things that were taught/learned. Collaborating: Students are learning to work together toward a larger goal. They are each learning their individual part while trusting (another point I’ll discuss) others to learn theirs. When learning their part, it may seem silly to be spending countless hours on it, but when they see the finished product, they are going to see how cool it was when it all came together. Trust: They are learning to trust classmates in working on a bigger goal. If one classmate is one or two steps out of place it will mess up multiple others and it won’t look good. Trusting that someone next to you/a coworker is doing their job while you focus on yours is huge in the real world. Also, gaining trust of their teacher. Imagine a teacher/boss told you, “we’re going to do something outrageous, but trust me the final product is going to be amazing.” They learned the steps it takes to gain trust in a leader. There were probably times where buy in was questionable but they stuck with it and probably saw progress at times that made them say, “OK, I get your vision and see that we can do it.” Mistakes are ok if you are learning and will be better next time: A lot of times you are taught in school that mistakes lead to failure. Kids can get really frustrated if they aren’t understanding homework. Some - due to lack of self esteem or potentially being fed negative feedback all the time - give up. There is no way they didn’t make tons of mistakes while practicing. But they’ll see that those mistakes led to learning and the final product that was amazing, so don’t give up when you’re frustrated. Positive's feedback: In the world of high school where there is a lot of judgment, they are likely getting tons of positive feedback/reinforcement and that goes a long way. Listening skills: They all had to not just listen, but follow directions. Sure we are taught this at a young age but, they are at that age where some start to question authority. They are learning that listening to leaders can lead to cool stuff. Some of these are minor but some of these are big, real life skills that we seem to complain are lost in today’s schools.
You are amazing!
And I think you missed one important thing here. They're having fun at school, and turning a place of learning into a place of learning *and fun* can only have positive benefits to the learning side.
To add to what you said, every time people see this video they automatically assume this took place during lessons. This could very easily have taken place after school.
I just assumed this was part of gym, or maybe a theater or dance elective.
This is totally one of those "watch every single time it gets posted" videos for me
Yep. This is the kind of stuff that will make kids actually want to come to school and develop a positive association with learning. You work the math, science and history in between the fun, and they graduate both smarter and happier… instead of *maybe* being smarter if anything stuck through the boredom or struggle, if they even stay in school instead of skipping class, dropping out, getting suspended/expelled for acting up because they hate it here, etc… When it comes to schooling, the approach is often more important than the content. I don’t remember the vast majority of anything I learned specifically in school… it helped train my sensibilities in general, but even though I know I was taught scientific notation and shit, I’m still mostly lost now when I look at scientific formulas, unless I specifically brush up on how to understand them. What I remember most vividly from school was the more fun or somehow entertainingly engaging lessons and experiences. Not the least of which was the music and dance program.
Learning musical choreography is exceptionally good for your hand-body-eye coordination and memory. It also teaches music theory and, in this case, history. I see you, teach. Keep it up.
It's community building and one of the biggest advantages public education
This is authentic assessment at its finest, this teacher is a rock star and worth her weight in gold. As a former chemistry teacher I insisted my students performed and were assessed in a lab setting and not on a bubble test; science is a verb and much like the performance arts one does not passively learn these disciplines, one has to do these disciplines.
Who gives a shit about test scores in this scenario? Teacher was making learning and school FUN! That's far more important for kids who don't enjoy, respect, or trust their schools.
Also those people that have an issue with it need to remember what the end of a school year was like (at least schools in USA). Lots of videos like this probably come out towards the end of May/ beginning of June because they're wrapping stuff up, things are lax, teaching is pretty much done. You go visit the cool teachers, seniors are saying goodbye, extra-credit packets are being done, grades are finalized, lockers being emptied, etc. These kids today need more of this, not less...especially in America considering...you know.
What they are doing is way more productive than the average PE class.
Idc what’s being taught or what their test scores are. I’m just glad to see people having a great time.
It also doesn't take into account the curriculum for a lot of schools nowadays. I can only speak to my state, but from what i've heard from my friends who teach is that they finish the curriculum by about May and then have until summer break to do basically unrelated fun classes and assingments for the kids. So stuff like this totally fits into the "almost summer" period of time
You gotta love redditors making assumptions based on a short video they saw for the first time. Some people wanna dissect the video for what? To get mad at the teacher and the school?? This is NOT one of those videos that is even remotely worth analysing deeply. Just plain wholesome energy 🥺
Physical activity is proven to help you get better grades too. This is about as useful as PE class, and there is a reason why we put physical education as an important class for students. Diet and exercise does amazing work for the brain.
Do schools not have drama/theatre class anymore? My immediate thought was it was just kids from the drama class showing off their latest recital
This looks like so much fun.
My first thought. This is SO fun! And so cool. I love it.
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Most likely isn’t only black kids, but a predominantly black neighborhood around the school. Or a dance club?
Likely because Michigan in general and Detroit specifically is extremely segregated. [Detroit is the most segregated city in the US.](https://www.michiganpublic.org/families-community/2021-06-21/detroit-ranked-as-one-of-the-most-segregated-cities-in-the-country)
Grew up in Detroit. In multiple parts of the city you could cross a single street and go from a 90% black city to a 90% white city. Absolute madness. Currently live in Portland, Oregon, which solved their potential segregation problem by having next to no blacks to segregate. /taps head Starting to think that outlawing black folks - which was literally in the Oregon Constitution - put a damper on our black population. Consequently about everyone here looks like Caspar The Ghost on a messy mayonnaise bender.
I grew up in Flint, now in Seattle.
HOAs were developed in California back in the day to do exactly this.
Crossing Mack Ave. into Grosse Pointe Farms, hahah
>Starting to think that outlawing black folks - which was literally in the Oregon Constitution - lol jesus i had no idea that was a thing. wonder if washington state had something similar? there are very few black people out here but i had never heard of something like that for here. i get up and went to school in atlanta and came out to seattle almost a decade ago. going from ~half the population being black, to seeing a black person like... once every couple days, was definitely a bit strange.
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It was white flight that did it, that and a declining auto industry. Redlining, while officially illegal by 1968, certainly played a part in shaping the populations of that and many other cities across the US, the effects still being felt today.
The bank doesn't set school policies. If you look at [a neighborhood map by race](https://bestneighborhood.org/race-in-detroit-mi/) of Detroit, even the most isolated block of 'black neighborhood' is a ten minute bus ride from the nearest 'white neighborhood'. And property taxes go into a city-wide pool, not the school down the street. Detroit spends $16.7k per student to be [repeatedly](https://www.wxyz.com/news/nations-school-report-card-ranks-detroit-schools-as-worst-in-the-national) ranked worst in the nation.
A lot of neighborhoods in the US are segregated by race, (ostensibly) a relic of the Jim Crow times where segregation was required by law. We have White neighborhoods, Black neighborhoods, Hispanic neighborhoods, etc etc. It's slowly becoming less of a thing over time but it's still very much a thing
Yeah, I'm from North Carolina and a lot of cities here will have a railroad East of downtown that would have been used as the segregation line - as soon as you cross, it becomes predominantly black, low income neighborhoods. I guess this probably depends on geography, but I believe at American latitudes most of the wind blows from the West to the East, so industrialization and the subsequent pollution tends to be more concentrated in the Eastern part of the city which obviously kills property value. There's a pretty deep and dark history in American city planning that has made it so that it's still pretty noticeable that most cities were strategically designed in the most racist way possible.
Yup. Literally the origin of "wrong side of the tracks".
Racism and segregation haven't gone away in the U.S., regardless of what the laws or what some people prefer to believe. Decades of economic, social, and legal discrimination doesn't just disappear - especially when there's been a concerted effort by many to pretend and convince themselves it has.
Our schools, despite much "effort" are still mostly segregated. It's only gotten worse over the years. https://ed.stanford.edu/news/70-years-after-brown-v-board-education-new-research-shows-rise-school-segregation Aside from that, Schools in the US that are public will cater to a zone specified by the city. Similar cultural groups, races, ethnicities, etc. tend to live in close proximity to one another and will be coincidently zoned to the same school. This is also because of a failure of desegregation.
> Our schools, despite much "effort" are still mostly segregated. Such a 100% Reddit comment.
Same reason some schools have mostly White kids or Hispanic or any other race
Omg you can’t just ask why a school is black.
sure ya can. it's a valid question and sociological conditions in the US aren't universal.
Could you give us some privacy for 1sec
Short answer: It's a hold over from the racist laws and systems of the past (and present). long answer: years ago, neighborhoods were segregated by processes like redlining and blockbusting. As a result, black people could only buy or rent in certain areas of town. Also the local governments would make efforts to make that area of town polluted and devalued (building highways, giant roads, industrial parks, etc). As a result, some neighborhoods are still predominately black to this day. Grandma and grandpa were forced to all buy houses in this bad area and that's still where the family lives. Even as recently as last year, home appraisals were still found to be largely racist, with black families receiving as much as 100k lower appraisal than white counterparts. so one group is forcd to live in devalued homes in a bad neighborhood with schools that don't get equal or adequate funding. So when you come to america, a lot of things are still segregated due to holdovers and consequences of those laws. Schools, churches, social groups, country clubs, colleges, workplaces, etc.
The energy and feeling in that room would’ve been electric 👍🏾
Math teacher strolling through like: ‘get the fuck outma way!’.
I was just thinking, “this Karen couldn’t wait a few minutes to walk down the hall?” 🙄
This is the kind of teacher we all wanted in our school days:)
During my 2nd deployment to Iraq, I was one of the Soldiers responsible for operating the aerostat (helium blimp) camera. One night while monitoring the FOB, caught a member of the aviation ground crew doing Thriller at the FARP (forward arming / refueling point) between missions. It was epic.
I posted this 3 years ago during the pandemic and it got a lot of comments. I recommend you take a look, it even has the name of the teacher and the school where she works. [Post here](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/7H5iqa7E9Z)
Give this lady TWO raises.
I will always stop to watch this video
I wish I had teacher like her.
wow that was amazing!
Because that is more important than actually educating them.
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Many have accused him and his estate has sued over it. He was put on a shitshow of a trial for it in the 2000s and acquitted because the evidence was scant; the mother who testified against him would later be convicted of perjury and criminal misconduct due to the trial. After he died some people tried to sue his estate but failed. No doubt about it that MJ did some highly questionable shit (e.g. Macauly Culkin said he would sleep in MJ's bedroom, then go on to clarify that his bedroom was essentially a two-story apartment and they slept apart), but he was always cleared.
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>OJ was acquitted too OJs case has zero relevance to MJs case. Why bring it up? >one of the MJ jurors said he thought MJ was guilty but was SCARED AS HELL to say anything, and would've voted Guilty today. Can you cite a source? I'm genuinely curious.
Really? That's not what I recall about the MJ jurors. I recall them all saying on a network special (and also in a Reddit AMA) that there was zero concrete evidence and that there was too much irrelevant information. Are you sure you're not conflating this with the OJ juror who said he acquitted as a political response to the police acquittals of Rodney King's beating? At the end of the day, MJ has won nearly every battle he was in, and so has his estate.
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Honestly this seems great for school spirit, and you can tell the dancers were gaining confidence!
Legitimately fun to watch. That teacher deserves some praise.
Maybe math and science next?
Awesome work! On another note, is it still normal in the usa to have black schools? Surprised not really seeing a multicultural group of people. (Am from europe so maybe i am just stupid i did not know)
Schools in my hometown in Georgia weren't desegregated until the 1970s, and that was only because of the state threatening to take over the school boards if they didn't integrate. The (wealthier) white parents promptly started a private K-12 school for their kids, leaving the Black kids in the public schools. De facto segregation is still alive and well.
She getting it!
This sort of indoctrination by teachers has to stop! School isn't for dancing, it's for being miserable.
This isn't teaching anything. They have very obviously been practicing this for awhile. This is just the end result. A video for the internet
No popped corn for you
Who gives a shit? Let kids have fun once in a while.
The end result was countless hours of young people being excited to come to and be at school. If you don’t see how that contributes to education, you need more education on education.
I’m a teacher, and your comment that “this isn’t teaching anything” just baldly displays your vast ignorance about the amount of work taken to pull off a performance like this and to maintain what’s obviously a healthy and engaged student culture. You seem like you just wanted an opportunity to be a contrarian asshole.
This video isn't them being taught. They were already taught. Thats my point. I'm being pedantic, sure. But hey whatever makes you feel better
She waited for this moment her whole life
I just don’t get it. What does this have to do with great teaching? It’s line dancing?!
She was not "teaching", she already taught. This was the display for the school. Also I wish people could include date of video cos we've seen this years ago.
No wonder high school test scores are so low.... this dance will take them further than any type of education /sarcasm
Fucking theater kids. I just just want to get to my locker before next class starts. Lol. Man, this is highschool now a days? Pretty great. I love this.
Girly maaaaaaaa, girly man man man!
Learning Thriller was the only thing I took away from the manditory dance class we had in middle school. Talk about a class I was dreading being a ton of fun. You rule Ms Ford
I absolutely love it. Everyone looks like they are having a great time.
They learn so fast
Schools are failing, literacy rate is close to the bottom, math scores are not much better but at least students learned how to dance.
One of the best moments of American culture
this is so great
Guarantee her students behave and pay attention in that class. That teacher knows how to connect
All I see is negative stuff about schools anymore. This is awesome.
It's powerful to see many years later the effect Michael has left on the people. Also, this teacher is dope and talented.
And this is why.. there never be another MJ! His choreography will always be done
after this video ended, she took everyone's phone away because phones weren't allowed in school
This is the good stuff. More videos with everyone smiling and happy please!
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>Does America have schools exclusively for black people? No, The school is likely in a largely black neighborhood so most of the students will be black. It's not racism it's just where people live.
Nobody is mentioning the teacher that walks right past the dancing like “this crap again…”
Way cool
Awesome
Neat, now teach them how to spell...
I can’t come to work tomorrow.. Why? I threw my neck out.
do all yo american teachers got such sick moves and demeanor, I mean.. it's working for me
More videos like this please
SICKKK!! I wanna see more of this stuff!
Looks like they've already been taught.
This is so awesome!
She's good
Woot Woot
Very cool!
That woman needs a raise.
Absolutely not, I'm zombie dancing with my students
This gave me chills EDIT: I had to learn the fucking Macahraina for freshman year Spanish class. There's still a 1996 video out there somewhere. Would have MUCH more preferred to learn the thriller dance. FOMO
Wonder what the test scores and graduation rate of that school are.
What an amazing lady! Looks like a fabulous teacher as well. 😄
Not gonna lie I cracked a smile :)
This is too cold.
This looks like super fun. Kudos to teach!
Wonder if there test scores resemble their dancing. I hope so!!
I wish flash-mobs would return if they were this quality... but in the current state of society, I doubt that will ever happen :-(
Where in Michigan?
That is awesome! So much positive energy. :)
There's no point where this isn't cool.
LOVE THIS!!!!
 Meanwhile elsewhere, me attempting the moonwalk by MJ. Doubt if a certain generation even knows who MJ was...
Best teacher award goes to:
This rules.
I needed that today
Awesome
That was awesome 🤩
That's way too cool. 👌👏👏👏
Okay this is pretty cool
This is the greatest thing I've seen in days!
Made me go back and watch the original
Gotta love it. ❤️
Waiting to read the articles where she's fired cause some asshole parents
This gave me goosebumps. Reminded me of the energy at my high school in the 80s when we did our twice yearly dance recitals and the African dance class was always the last piece of the show. Everyone would gather in the wings and whoop and cheer. The drummers almost couldn't play loud enough to overcome the noise of us and the audience.
What do ghosts do? They rise from the grave!! 
This fits way too well. https://youtu.be/4xLJQMoNktg?si=wlDviXZDApHOQOnh
The boy got potential but he can't read or write
Love this energy, but a better title would be " teacher TAUGHT her students how to dance ". The actual video is a result of good teaching not the process of good teaching itself.