You thought right.

In a fitting coincidence, today was the last day of prep before my first class of students arrives on Monday. I took a job as a high school science teacher at a school for kids who have been kicked out of their zoned schools for academic and behavioral issues--students others have written off and worse. I've been watching and passing around the Taylor Mali and Rives performances all week. After years fighting what I now believe to have been my destiny all along, for the first time in a long time, I feel I am doing what I am supposed to be doing.

Thanks for the heads-up on the link.

You and me both, baby!

[edit] Forgot to say thank you for the promote....

Thank you. For the promote.

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I love this guy so so much. *promote *education

My favourite:

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Taylor Mali - always *quality

Another epic Taylor Mali poem. Thanks for posting.

Taylor Mali doing the voice is a major plus to this great short.


Spank you so much!

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>> ^eric3579:

comedy


Thanks. That slipped right past me. I was still thinking about watching http://videosift.com/video/Depression-Too-Is-a-Kind-of-Fire-Taylor-Mali.

Another dark one on this subject, by Taylor Mali:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXX_3y5jqhs

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Thanks for letting us know. I will leave this up to the sift, but I think a precedent has been set several times on this kind of thing, and the conclusion seems always to be that to be a dupe, a video usually has to be the same on many levels. But this one is actually a different performance.

That said, I would not have posted it had I known the other existed.

>> ^RhesusMonk:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Teachers-are-miracle-workers

Not the same video, but there's no difference in content. I'd say it's a dupe.

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