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Dec. 14th, 2005
ED BURNShttp://www.hbo.com/thewire/interviews/ed_burns.shtml
Well, when the kids leave me, they're just back in the mix in eighth grade again. What you try to do is present an image that the kids—maybe at some time later on in life, even if they're sitting in prison or something—can reflect on. There's another way of being; it doesn't have to just be the way you see on the street. Because that's all they're getting. The only representative of traditional society that some of these kids see is the teacher.
A bad teacher is what they expect, because adults in general are bad. So when they see the adult who's consistent, who's always there, who always comes through with what he said, then that's a new world for them.