Kindergarten : twigs from a city tree (1970)

[Music] h [Music] go [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] [Music] let's sit down in the circle and drink our okay no no what well you better run downstairs and get it [Music] sweetheart in Chicago if you want your kids to get milk you send them to school with 4 cents a day or 20 cents a week and they'll get milk every day If the parents don't have the money then the kids don't get the milk and they'll sit around and watch while everyone else drinks but we're lucky in this school we've got a private fund and it's let us set up a free milk program and every kid in the school gets free milk the first thing in the morning and we get chocolate milk too which is great because if we had to get the milk from the Chicago Board we'd probably get white milk and the kids don't really dig white milk chocolate milk is where it's at and it's a great thing we we all do it together in the morning we sit down and we all open up up our milk and we get on the circle and chug our milk and we wrap for a while and it was really bad when they didn't have the program how many kids had the money 20 cents a week when there are8 nine kids in a family I mean maybe nine out of 37 kids would really bring the money to school and it was really bad I mean how could nine kids drink milk the first thing in the morning or the middle of the morning and the rest of the kids sit around watching I was paying for it myself until the milk fund got started and I don't even know how long the milk fund is going to last because well the money can't hold out forever and I don't know how long people are going to want to Shell out money for a private fund maybe for a long time it should go on forever it's probably the best thing the school is doing in the [Music] community [Music] the [Music] [Music] I [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] but [Music] you [Music] [Music] I can't hear you why is he crying he he don't want to go to CU he's sleepy what what what [Music] Kimberly the te the teach mad at him did you just not mad at him no then why is he crying cuz he got up this morning he got up this morning came today and he feel sleepy and he don't want to go to school his teeth is yellow hise yellow because his teeth are yellow because he because his don't like him why don't they like him because they uh because he h him why did he hit them why he I don't know I mean he hit him because because they the you think you know you hear Bill Cosby talk about growing up in the ghetto and you think it's an experience no one should miss and for a lot of kids it it's true growing up in laale on the west side of Chicago could be a really great experience there's a lot going on here and it's all happening out front there's a lot to be learned in the streets and for the kids who can cope with it understand it and live with it it can be a very creative experience but for a lot of kids it's just too much it's so chaotic there's so many doors slamming people pouring in and out there's so much screaming out of Windows that that a lot of kids can't handle it there are five and six-year-old kids in my class who won't talk they can't seem to relate to anything they just stare ahead all day with blank eyes and some of them have the face of a man 40 or 50 years old they look as if they've seen the whole world and they can't talk and these are the kids I really worry go Martin motherless children have a hard time when their mother is dead well motherless children have a hard time when their mother is dead they haven't got any place to go they're wanding around from door to door motherless children have a hard time when your mother is dead well some people say your sister will do when your mother is dead well some people say your sister will do when your mother is dead some people say your sister will do soon as she's married turn her back on you motherless children have a hard time when and your Mother's Day will dig my grave with a bloody Spade when I'm dead where dig my grave with a bloody Spade when I'm dead dig my grave with a bloody Spade but please make sure that the Digger gets paid motherless children have a hard time when Mother's [Music] Day I don't care you [Music] e wait [Music] hey you hey stop it oh this is MW reporting fora is f do not hear her no more wait [Music] I all right clean up over hey hey for [Music] [Music] for [Music] Kimberly good did you have a dream last night Bobby I didn't ask if Bobby Griggs had a dream I asked if Kimberly Gooden had a dream did you have a dream too Bobby okay we'll you can tell it to us later okay i w listen to all of us who had dreams I want to hear Kimberly's now CU Kimberly always has funny dreams go onim huh can I go after Kimberly maybe me too well you can't B go right after Kimberly all right Kimberly can you speak in a nice loud voice and tell us about your dream I was asleep in the B and the phone ringed and my and I told my mother to answer and she said she wouldn't answer so I answered her and they said day was a wo man and and I hung they said they was going to come and get me and eat me up and then and then they was G they he came and get me three wild man came and got me and they ate me for dessert R tried to get out of the Dr the class and and and they put some of that spit on her and and she said Woo I feel some water they must be drinking a lot of water tonight and then they said and then I was had under the bed and they don't and they and and and that was the booger man's house and the booger man had moved and then and and a lot of boogers was in there and I was under the bed on some boogers and then and then they looked under the bed and saw me and I said Wooh they going to eat me up now and they and they made some squiring water and put me went in it and drinked [Music] me [Music] a [Music] a