Interview · moment 17 of 29
Teaching Geometry to Pregnant Teens at a Brooklyn Charter School
from Francis Ellis · #144
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Francis describes volunteering at a last-chance charter school in Brooklyn where he taught geometry to a class with several pregnant 16-year-olds and their teenage boyfriends, leading into Tim's rant about lazy teachers being 'summer enthusiasts.'
- 40:27Tim volunteered at a Brooklyn charter school for students expelled from public schools.
- 41:41They immediately assigned him a full geometry class without warning despite understaffing.
- 41:56Four of his eight girls in the class were 16-year-old pregnant students, some with the fathers also attending.
- 42:23Teaching isosceles triangles to pregnant girls experiencing prenatal stress struck him as absurd.
- 42:52Despite 60% of students having an incarcerated parent, they still wanted to learn but lacked foundational study skills.
- 43:19Tim's takeaway: teachers are public enemy number one—lazy, overpaid, and obsessed with summer vacation.
- 43:45He demands teachers get back to work while the world falls apart and schools fill with pregnant teenagers.
- 44:00Tim clarifies he's actually only half-joking about his contempt for teachers.