The date of hour-long series “School Pride” series is delayed by three weeks by NBC and nowadays, it will telecast on 15 October. It was believed to start telecasting in September. Two hour editions of Dateline will be telecasted in its place during those three weeks by NBC.
A proactive, alternative series, School Pride features the stories of people of a community that comes together to renovate their aging and broken public schools. The community also renovates its sense of value and school pride, whereas transforming the school. Students, teachers and parents are followed by the cameras when they roll up their sleeves and reconstruct their own schools, concluding with the revealing of a brand new, completely transformed school.
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A quartet of community organizers and personalities such as SWAT Commander Tom Stroup, interior designer Susie Castillo (“House of Payne”), comedian and former substitute teacher Kym Whitley (“Til Death”) and political correspondent Jacob Soboroff (“AMC News”) motivate them. The experts’ team will guide the community during the makeover process. Cameras will revisit the school months later to find out the lasting effects of the transformation, a renewed sense of school pride and an increase in student achievement scores.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, “NBC is moving the series’ premiere from September to Friday, October 15th. The mentioned reason was to move the show away from the big premiere week in late September and move it somewhere with more “breathing room to layer its messaging.”
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Video of NBC ‘School Pride’ Transforms CMA High School in Detroitfrom youtube:
I woke up this morning only to catch this new show for our childrn and education. I’m so excited about this show because we need to give back to our children they are hurting and changing thier environment in which they learn and spend a majority of there time each day is awesome. I have a school in mind and wanted to know how I could submit there name to be considered.
how do I enter our school??? Please help!! This is for Hunking Middle School in Bradfore, MA (Haverhill) The school is a dump, and us parents are rallying to get it fixed, but the city will only do so much, if nothing at all. We need help…Please someone respond to this comment.
How can I submit a proposal for our school? We have a few areas at our campus that would really benefit from this. We have a water problem area, a gym that needs help, a basement we call the dungeon, and bathrooms ( yikes!!!!) Help!!!!
I’m an Intervention Specialist at an alternative high school and I’m EXRTREMELY interested in nominating our school. Would you please pass along the necessary information so that our kids can be considered for such a blessing??
Please help! I am from Appalachia, Va. and I would like to enter our local high school, Appalachia High School, in your tv show. Our school is the heart of our community and we have great pride in our children and our school. The only problem is that the Wise County School Board has let our schools decline for years. A group of concerned citizens came together for two straight summers to clean and paint, but we need help with the bigger projects such as new windows, new doors, heating and cooling system, plumbing and electrical. We love our school so please help us.
I’d like to enter our schools. We live in an area where so much of the land is owned by the federal government. That makes it so there is less money that is available to go to the school system. Our schools are falling down around our kids, faculty, and staff. The other schools in our region are nice. I don’t understand how our kids can go into these schools and feel ANY pride. How do we enter?
I grew up in northwest Detroit and taught at Cass Tech and Denby. I am appalled by what I understand has happened to Detroit schools, which were, in the ’60s, at the top of their game. I would love to know the former name and/or location of the school that is having a make over.
THANK YOU SCHOOL PRIDE!… Finally someone really gets it! The answer to America’s schools is not big business, taxes or magnet schools alone. It takes the entire community to fix our schools. Who can perform well when the educational environment is so depressing in so many places? The problem with schools in America is not that teachers are inept or unqualified. The fact is that most communities are very satisfied with the quality of teaching in their neighborhood schools. The problem is multi-layered and complex. School problems belong to ALL of society. And it’s the job of all of society to step up and solve the problems facing our education community. No single entity can do it alone. You proved that the best example of business and community involvement in local schools can promote the best we can offer for the future of America. THANK YOU FOR THIS MODEL OF COOPERATION. THE REST OF AMERICA SHOULD FOLLOW YOUR LEAD!
I hear daily from teachers and students whose lives and health have been destoyed by mold in their schools. God Bless NBC for bringing to light the conditions our underpaid teachers have to teach in and our students struggle to learn in. No wonder the US is slipping in educational levels compared to other developed countries. I have seen better schools than the Pre School Pride Enterprise Middle School in third world countries. I hope the rest of the citizens of the US saw this important exposure of schools in the United States of America and volunteer.
Come to Newport, RI and help us motivate and collaborate with our community to renew school pride and renovate our existing neighborhood schools. We’ve just organized a group called the Alliance for Neighborhood Schools. Our goals are to preserve neighborhood schools and to find creative, community based solutions to updating and “greening” our existing school buildings! Can’t wait to see this show. Many thanks for bringing this topic and the efforts surrounding to the limelight!
Talk about reality TV. Kudos to the producers of this show for taking an incredibly hard reality and putting it in front of the faces of Americans. It will wake us to the inequalitys that assault our youth daily. Teach America is also new to me and all I can say to these unbelievably cool young teachers is ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have inspired me. I hope this show lasts forever-for the children
How inspiring. When the power of TV decides to do something good for America and couples that with community efforts, the results are awesome. I taught school for thirty-eight years and took pride in my school because my state and district cared about facilities and teachers. In our poorer neighborhoods, we need to all pitch in and make American education great again from the ground up. A great education should be for all American citizens. Your program has shown what the power of the people and TV can do for the good of this country. Your show is also showing the side of education that is being ignored; run down schools, ugly politics, teachers working hard under the worst circumstances. It also shows what can be accomplished with the help of community and volunteers. Thank you all for helping our young teachers and our schools.
Inordinately touched by the episode on Lanier Elementary in East Baton Rouge Parish, LA. My late mother in law, Elizabeth McHugh, was in charge of the music for that school system for decades. She was a kind of circuit riding teacher, something that apparently still exists today. Elizabeth also wrote the LSU fight song, Tiger Rag, and eventually sold some part of it to Hoagy Carmichael. I like all the work done on Lanier to make it viable but was there a room dedicated to music, a room for art and a room for a library? Some of the schools in Washington D.C. did not have a library. A friend of mine who worked for Rotary got that organization involved in finding and donating appropriate books. She also tapped into the local Red Hat Chapters. A lot of Red Hatters are former teachers (as am I). The guy who was interviewed about why the state does not support the public schools was full of it. I’ve been to LA many times and it is more than time for organizations like the oil companies to step up and “foster” schools. The oil companies down there are the totally major industry and they have all the money. Its a matter of making them see that it behooves them to do so. I want to see this show continued indefinitely. Our schools everywhere in this country are experiencing some sort of crisis that impacts whether or not children can learn. Go team!
Dear Wonderful Producers,
This show is AWESOME! It really puts the emphasis on the importance of improving students’ surroundings. At our school we put up pictures to hide the cracks in the walls. We know that in order for students to have a good self image they need to see it in their environment.
If you ever come to Springfield, Massachusetts please stop by our high school building at 57 School Street.
Signed a concerned high school teacher
My name is Roy Craig and I served my country for 16yrs as a member of the RI AIR NATIONAL GUARD in 2006 to 2007 i deployed to Northern Iraq during that time I helped 557 red horse rebuild a school for the children of Iraq and I was proud to have help the Iraqi children get an education but when I got back home and saw the condition of my kids school it was disheartening to see it’s condition how can I help? I don’t what to do are town is suffering money issues,how would you like it if your children couldn’t bring there books home to study or do there home work. last year one of are town council men walk through the middle school and found bathroom facilties broken or in disrepair the same year the school lost there heat and they had there pipes burst and to make matters worse they shut down an elementary school and sent the kids to the middle school this school in my opinion is over occupied and being this complex also connected to the high school next door which is in the same dyer straits it overwhelming to see are kids struggle with these issues and on top of this there’s talk of discontinuing school sports it’s tough on the parents that have to supply materials both class and art whatcan we do ?
I am a PTA president and LOVE this show. This is what we need to see more of. How do we sign up a school or at least make sure this stays on the air?
Ok. I know of a high school that I graduated from that is a candidate and in serious need of this show! They go to school in bungalows, their cafeteria is a bungalow, they have no where to go when it is cold and rainy. They do not have a gym, and very limited programs. The sad thing is that it is in California. I would like to know how to how we sign up a school????!!!
I live in cloutierville la and i am a custodian at cloutierville school i have been there for four years and the school is like home away from home we have wonderful kids there and afew of them call me mom and aunt tina our school is in need of a major make over nothing hardly works and it hard to get things fix around there i love what i do we all are a family and we make do with what we have we have a huge field out back where we can have alot if things going for our kids we dont have any type sports because we dont have any equipment there for ou kids they always tell us we never have money the bathrooms are horrible we have a leaky roof they are constantly patching it we are always changing cieling tiles and more. The kids cant concentrate are be comfortable because of what they see everyday please help our school
Your show brings hope to many schools and I want to enter two schools, one is in Minnewaukan ND which needs to be move to higher grounds or a new school built. This town needs their school to survive because education is important to them. The other is Wadena Minnesota school because a #4 tornado destoyed it and they are going to rebuild. Both school need some extra help. My mother and sister were teachers so his show means a lot to me because they gave out of their pocket to help kids. Can you help them both.
Our family just moved to this area and our oldest daughter goes to Brentwood Middle School. The school looks really old. The inside has no lockers and when talking to a teacher during p/t conferences…he seemed really upset with the lack of supplies. The school has a lot of gangs and different ethnics. After watching this show “School Pride” I knew that this is what the kids and teacher need for their school!! I hope that this message gets to someone that has final say and gets this school some MUCH needed help!!
Thanks
I am a middle school teacher in a one hundred year old building that was constructed for k-5, now it houses a k-8 center. We were supposed to rebuild but that has not happened do to the state of NJ’s waste. Now my children are forced to stay in a dilapidated building. The property is set on a park like setting complete with a pond. So it would be ideal to stay and remodel. I am new to this school this year and these children have bee waiting for four years to move and nothing happens, they deserve what other children receive in this district and around the state
I have been trying to reach those involved with putting on the School Pride Show. I would like to create a national nonprofit that would do off screen what the School Pride show does on screen. I would be grateful for any help you can give me.
Hello my school needs HELP!!!! I attend North Jefferson Intermeidate School in the Northwest R1 school district and we have many places in our school that we would not only love to have redone but also need to be redone there is a classroom in the basement that has hole in the celing tiles the bathroom sinks in the basement dont work some of the kids eat in the gym the music room is so squashed my gym teachers offices are barely bigger than a smart car and one of them is in a lockerroom the has a stall that is never cleaned and the lockers are vandalised and the school is bad enough plus next year our @ grade school will soon become a school holding 6th 7th & 8th grade as well HELP how do i sign up!!!!
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