Multimedia Resource (Albert Laing)

Scene from"The Wire"

I chose the TV series the “Wire” because it speaks exactly about what goes on in the urban city, with the youth and how it affects them in school. The central ideas of the Blog were “code of the streets”. This TV series I am showing shows just want the book and our blog was talking about and what our stand is. The pressure of the young kids growing up poor in ubran settings is hard; hard for them in school and out of school.

The scene shows 9^th grade a student coming home from school to find out there is no food in the house. The young black student, asks his mother what happen with the all the groceries he just bought. The mother told him, she sold the food for drugs. Watching this makes you feel so bad. These kids come to school with things like that going on. So the pressure of going to school and learning is not in the mind of most of these kids; growing up in these similar circumstances happen to most kids in urban city areas. Also the student’s step-father is shown in the scene and he was just released on rape charges/molestation of young boys. Now the young student is angry when he seen that his mother sold their food for drugs and brings back this “creep”. The pressure and stress of these kids in urban-city settings is tough. This is a reason why he hated school, his environment was not in the norm.

The connection from our point of the blog connects well with this video clip. It shows why the pressure is so hard on kids it the poor cities. His mother sold their food for drugs. If you see your parents doing that, how would u feel about school. You worried about eating more than getting a education. “The code of streets” meaning it’s just some things you live by and you learn. The student could have easily told his teacher, but the “code” isn’t like that. I found this video to fight directly in what our stand of the blog is, the pressure to learn is harder for kids growing up in areas like this. Imagine what the next day of school was like, to feel so sad and worried about life.