Attention parents. Lesson to be learned: Change.Just think about the fact.Respect The Rights Of Others. Treat others as you want to be treated, everyone has a right to live in the same world you live in. If only that was true in the schools in Melrose.Lesson to be learned: Change.Sorry...don't depend on newspapers uncovering this type of corruption - Bringing these issues to light might affect housing pricing and sales!
They were forewarned by former school committee member Carrie Kourkomelis but did not heed her warnings.
It's amazing how things change
When people let you down.
Come on - plagarizing a message board post?
Hate to say it but voters did this to themselves. They allowed and continue to allow Mayor Dolan, Margaret Driscoll Superintendent Taymore and the Gutless SC members get away with using tax payer money set aside to teach children and instead, diverted it to the tune of almost $1000 a month to a "fake news" PR Agency to spin lies, create fake awards for Melrose SC members and administrators under scrutiny or investigation by the Feds and State investigators. Just like their advertisements say: "Guilfoil Public Relations: "FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST". PR, media, and CRISIS MANAGEMENT for police, fire, government, and small business. WHEN YOU NEED HELP, Call John Guilfoil". These people had a lot of misdeeds to cover up.
A reminder, no one publically exposed a child's personally identifiable information here, except the school committee and superintendent of schools. They have publically acknowledged the unlawful action and falsely claimed publicly that they had removed the information. They all( the superintendent, SC chair, Mayor Dolan, city solicitor and all SC members) have been made aware the information is still on IQM2 and have defiantly decided not to take it down even though they are in violation of State and Federal laws that protect children and their identities. This reckless and illegal behavior is harming children and their families every day it is still publicly available.
Boston METCO
This school board member never voted to force any accountability by this superintendent when she took egregiously inappropriate actions to protect the teacher, further victimize the student.
CockroachHunter03/02/17 06:19 AM
Especially after the office of civil rights investigations of Melrose schools, Taymore has little credibility on discrimination issues.
Not to mention that Taymore falsely claimed to the Melrose Free Press that she had removed students' personal information violative of Federal FERPA laws, Massachusetts Privacy of School Records Laws: Their names, and outplacements and tuition costs, all still available on the IQM2 page on the school's website for all the snoopers to see. Would you want the whole city to know your child goes to a facility called Home for Little Wanderers or the Justice Resource Institute?
And where has Margaret and the School Committee been during these many months of open and egregious violations of State and Federal Laws?? Surely they were aware of the news article disclosing this serious violation. Did Margaret and her cabal ever care to even check to see that the violative information about our students is still up on there own website? Did our crack legal council and city solicitor ever follow up to ensure the information was in fact removed?? What is wrong with these idiots?? And why have they not fired the Superintendent and City solicitor for gross negligence and potentially exposing the city to multiple law suits?
Actively in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g laws for illegally disclosing student personal information (names, outplacements and tuition costs of SPED students) on the school committee website and then further failing to remove the prohibited information after falsely assuring the public in the local paper that the information had been removed.
This school committee, school superintendent and city solicitor are so stupid (or openly brazen) that they continue to this day to illegally expose personally identifiable information to the general public about specific outplaced SPED students, their outplacements and tuition fees on the school department's website (IQ2M ) in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99) as pointed out several months ago in an article by Mr. Leibowitz (Free Press). Oddly enough, Cyndy Taymore admitted to this and falsely stated that they immediately took action to correct the mistake'" That was months ago and the violative information is still on the Melrose School Department's website for the world to see. FERPA is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records and information. Schools risk federal funding if they fail to take action to protect student's and family's personal information.
It is truly amazing and alarming that the Melrose schools superintendent can be actively and knowingly in violation of the law for over six months and not be fired by the school committee. Truly amazing, their own interests, and children's rights take a seat in the back of the bus.
The phone number is 781-2160 and her name is Patricia White-Lambright or 781-979-2294 that is the Superintendent Of School and her name is Cyndi Taymore.
Melrose takes years to wake up. To long the super has been here more damage she is doing.
The principal at the Roosevelt has had more teachers leave her school since any other school in Melrose. Hope super is looking at the decline and the absents since she has been put in this school.
Join together as a village and save out kids.
Call The Department of Education and file a complaint.
Call Donna Fienberg @ 781-338-3731
THE MORE PEOPLE THAT DO THIS THE MORE IT MARKS RECORD!
Many violations at this school and teachers are letting it happen to have management like them and not harass those teachers. Call PWL maybe she will start answer the phone now that they have the attorney working in central. Parents have no idea what is going on in this school.
Thinking before you speak or do something. It's about knowing that every day, the choices we make can and will affect our lives. It's about being accountable for our choices in life. We have the right to make our decisions every day, and every day is a new day. But will the school committee make good decisions and the superintendent Cyndy Taymore?
The phone number781.979-2160 and her name is Patricia White-Lambright .called Asst Superintendent
Who else has had it with the bull Mr. Conway spews? Please join forces and get him out to protect the kids of the city. He targets kids and doesn't stop. Parents are leaving the school system after middle school because they can't take it. Join together as a village and save out kids.
Call The Department of Education and file a complaint.
Call Donna Fienberg @ 781-338-3731
THE MORE PEOPLE THAT DO THIS THE MORE IT MARKS HIS RECORD!!!
If you look closely at school committee members during meetings, you will notice their hands over their eyes, ears, and mouth. This is so they - "see no evil", "hear no evil", and "speak no evil"
How about a very public parent petition, which we know will make CT crazy and bring out her fangs, but so what? Why not, if it exposes the problem and gets the public to understand just how corrupt the whole "chain of command" actually is?
This all started with the the election of arrogant and incompetent school committee members headed by self-serving chairpersons. They dish our enough favors to remain in office for years - developing a school network to ensure re-election for years to come - while parents are too busy trying to scrape by paying little attention to the education of their children. The schools imploding is the only event that will change this formula - which appears on the horizon!
It's about being accountable..What has to happen for someone to read into this major problem in Melrose. The reality is parents are working all day long, raising families.The days of single earner households that can support a family and the 9 to 5 job is over.Repeatedly mistreating Melrose citizens speaking during public comment period (you can witness this on MMTV school committee reruns for yourself).
Did I miss anything?How come we putting up with it?
Some elementary PTO moms have only constant praise for the school. Doesn't matter how bad something is. They're the first to jump to the defence of the district. Especially when another parent critcizes the school at a PTO meeting, they immediately praise it. Their kid gets to middle school, more of the same thing.
Principals routinely exploit those PTO moms. They take the easy way out. They act like one parent's praise simply cancels out another's criticism. Since there are people on both sides, it's just opinions, nothing more. They don't respond to the criticism. They don't fix the problem. The school doesn't improve.
There are two types of these PTO moms. One drinks the kool-aid all the way through. Because they're kid isn't dying, the school must be great. If nothing else, they're consistent in their selfishness.
The other type is the complete hypocrite. They kiss the principal's butt all the way through elementary and middle school. They say the superintendent is the best. The curriculum director is the best. The teachers are the best. Suddenly, after middle school they send their kid to Malden Catholic or Bishop Fenwick or some other place. I just heard of another kid of a PTO mom leaving the district. His mom was still kissing up to Conway last month. Hypocrite.
It's deja vu every year. There always another bunch.
You are right about that.Thank you Dad and Mom .
It tells me all I need to know that the Mayor and several others, including the Bobblehead on the SC have all opted to put their kids into the charter school lottery.
If it is true that Rob Dolan is putting his kids in the Charter School, then I will not support any new money for the school system or any other city improvements! Phony political hack!
I think the only one that "won" the "lottery" was the Bobblehead. Might be wrong about that, though.
The truth hurts but, parents are not being the adults in situations. They are allowing kids to make decisions on their own. The parents are becoming more and more the issue. I know parents, teachers, staff, principal and administration don't care its a business now! The schools have so much more competition in other places. The MPS has failed and they don't see that Melrose is only declining.
The administration is so happy that IEPs will be a thing of the passed. Not
one administration in the last 20 years cared for children on IEPs or
disability. This administration is only hiding money in the special needs
funds.
Studies have shown if employees are happy in the work force amazing things will happen. Employees in Melrose are working because they need the money and have been in the schools for years. The school will target women when they are 40 and up to get younger staff to make it look like they are a growing community. Don't let them fool!!!!
It is both heartening and very dismaying to hear the many parents speaking with heartful and genuine passion on behalf of transgender students and a new Committee "inclusivity" statement being put forward tonight. It is heartening to hear the sincerity of those who spoke, but disturbing to hear the gushing praise for those putting this forward knowing how truly disingenuous the committee and administration has proven by their many contemptuous actions they are. One wonders at the apparent staggering naivete of those speaking.
In this administration these are the same individuals who are still thumbing their noses at the OCR Findings that found the district to have been severely in violation of federal laws and violations when it came to abiding the basic civil rights of METCO, and in fact all students. They demonstrate their contempt in so many of their actions and policies regardless of what feel-good statements they put forward as they did tonight. They fail to be honest and treat all of the public with the respect that their oath of office is supposed to require.
For the mayor to state as he did tonight (ever so stridently, apparently presuming that none of us remembers anything else he has ever said or done) "it is never never never never okay for the federal government" [to deny anyone their basic civil rights] is hypocrisy at its worst when he worked in collusion with the rest of the committee and super to hide what happened following the April 1st incident 3 years ago when they supported the 8th-grade history teacher (and head of the teacher's union) who told a METCO student "to go back to the plantation" and the many wrongs they heaped on top afterwards. He and the committee in fact went many steps beyond and made sure to reward and award the superintendent following her wrongful and disgraceful actions. The United States Office of Civil Rights stated in no uncertain terms, following a 2-year investigation, that this district had created a "racially hostile environment" not only with their initial actions, but also with their many layers of wrongful actions, including forcing the victimized student to be interviewed without a parent or METCO representative present and in the presence of the victimizing teacher, and many other clearly wrongful and/or discriminatory or unlawful actions. This administration went on to fire a beloved high school art teacher who refused to separate her "students of color" from sitting together. This committee and administration have sat by and allowed, rather failing to oversee appropriately, countless incidents of wrongful treatment of students and staff alike, including and especially those with special needs, many cases resulting in costly litigation and continuing still.
While it is noble and good for the parents who came forward tonight in support of transgender rights, one wonders where any of them have been during all of the tumult that has been reported on the past decade for the many other varieties of serious discrimination and abuse. Perhaps their children are generally younger and this group just hasn't been connected to the rest of the picture long enough to understand the pervasive toxicity in the district. That being said, there are many proven and public recent examples of willful wrongdoing by this same administration that these parents effused about this evening, which does devalue some of their message unfortunately. Even if these parents have chosen to pick and choose which issues they will fight for, at a minimum their arguments would carry so much more legitimacy if their message could be stated without the effusive praise for individuals who most certainly have proven over and over again that they do not deserve it. Their effusive praise hurts their credibility and damages a message that deserves unconditional support.
Respect The Rights Of Others. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Mom and Dad you are talking ****.
I am a teacher who works in a school in Melrose. At lunch a teacher and para were saying teachers wanted to do a grievance on a teacher for her lack of performance. I didn't understand because the principal was ok with this. It was clear the teacher had been going through a tough time. Can anyone let me know if teachers can do this to each other? I feel they should have talked to the union first?
We need to take a survey on how many students have followed into MHS under this administration. Residents buy homes here to send their children to MHS. Sadly I am one of those families and can not afford to sent 3 kids to a private school.
All you have to do is talk with any mom or dad it is same.
IT IS WHAT IT IS.This superintendent needs to go.
The school committee members feel they are shielded from responsibility.Not Responsible for anything to do with the superintendent.Melrose pub schools.We all should look back 2014 2015 2016.LOOK AT THE NEWS ABOUT SUPERINTENDENT Cyndi Taymore .Incredible indeed. Unfortunately there are two sets of meanings for that word. There's the way Dolan constantly uses it, but people forget that it also means unbelievable, beyond belief, hard to believe, unconvincing, far-fetched, implausible, improbable, highly unlikely, dubious, doubtful, inconceivable, unthinkable, unimaginable, impossible, hard to swallow, cock-and-bull, bull$hit. The last is the most apropos.
"GOOD WILL HUNTING"
by
Matt Damon & Ben Affleck
FADE IN:
EXT. SOUTH BOSTON ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE -- DAY
CUT TO:
INT. L STREET BAR & GRILLE, SOUTH BOSTON -- EVENING
The bar is dirty, more than a little run down. If there is
ever a cook on duty, he's not here now. As we pan across
several empty tables, we can almost smell the odor of last
nights beer and crushed pretzels on the floor.
CHUCKIE
Oh my God, I got the most ****ed up
thing I been meanin' to tell you.
As the camera rises, we find FOUR YOUNG MEN seated around a
table near the back of the bar.
ALL
Oh Jesus. Here we go.
The guy holding court is CHUCKIE SULLIVAN, 20, and the largest
of the bunch. He is loud, boisterous, a born entertainer.
Next to him is WILL HUNTING, 20, handsome and confident, a
softspoken leader. On Will's right sits BILLY MCBRIDE, 22,
heavy, quiet, someone you definitely wouldn't want to tangle
with.
Finally there is MORGAN O'MALLY, 19, smaller than the other
guys. Wiry and anxious, Morgan listens to Chuckie's horror
stories with eager disgust.
All four boys speak with thick Boston accents. This is a
rough, working class Irish neighborhood and these boys are
its product.
CHUCKIE
You guys know my cousin Mikey
Sullivan?
ALL
Yeah.
CHUCKIE
Well you know how he loves animals
right? Anyway, last week he's drivin'
home...
(laughs)
ALL
What? Come on!
CHUCKIE
(trying not to laugh)
I'm sorry, 'cause you know Mikey,
the ****in guy loves animals, and
this is the last person you'd want
this to happen to.
WILL
Chuckie, what the **** happened?
CHUCKIE
Okay. He's driving along and this
****in' cat jumps in front of his
car, and so he hits this cat--
Chuckie is really laughing now.
MORGAN
--That isn't funny--
CHUCKIE
--and he's like "****! ************!"
And he looks in his rearview and
sees this cat -- I'm sorry--
BILLY
****in' Chuckie!
CHUCKIE
So he sees this cat tryin to make it
across the street and it's not lookin'
so good.
WILL
It's walkin' pretty slow at this
point.
MORGAN
You guys are ****in' sick.
CHUCKIE
So Mikey's like "****, I gotta put
this thing out of its misery"--So he
gets a hammer--
WILL/MORGAN/BILLY
OH!
CHUCKIE
out of his tool box, and starts
chasin' the cat and starts whackin'
it with the hammer. You know, tryin'
to put the thing out of its misery.
MORGAN
Jesus.
CHUCKIE
And all the time he's apologizin' to
the cat, goin' "I'm sorry." BANG,
"I'm sorry." BANG!
BILLY
Like it can understand.
CHUCKIE
And this Samoan guy comes runnin'
out of his house and he's like "What
the **** are you doing to my cat?!"
Mikey's like "I'm sorry" --BANG--" I
hit your cat with my truck, and I'm
just trying to put it out of it's
misery" -- BANG! And the cat dies.
So Mikey's like "Why don't you come
look at the front of the truck."
'Cause the other guy's all ****in
flipped out about--
WILL
Watching his cat get brained.
Morgan gives Will a look, but Will only smiles.
CHUCKIE
Yeah, so he's like "Check the front
of my truck, I can prove I hit it
'cause there's probably some blood
or something"--
WILL
--or a tail--
MORGAN
WILL!
CHUCKIE
And so they go around to the front
of his truck... and there's another
cat on the grille.
WILL/MORGAN/BILLY
No! Ugh!
CHUCKIE
Is that unbelievable? He brained an
innocent cat!
BLACKOUT:
The opening credits roll over a series of shots of the city
and the real people who live and work there, going about
their daily lives.
We see a panoramic view of South Boston.
Will sits in his apartment, walls completely bare. A bed, a
small night table and an empty basket adorn the room. A stack
of twenty or so LIBRARY BOOKS sit by his bed. He is flipping
through a book at about a page a second.
Chuckie stands on the porch to Will's house. His Cadillac
idles by the curb. Will comes out and they get in the car.
We travel across crowded public housing and onto downtown.
Finally, we gaze across the river and onto the great
cementdomed buildings that make up the M.I.T. campus.
CUT TO:
INT. M.I.T. CLASSROOM -- DAY
The classroom is packed with graduate students and TOM.
PROFESSOR LAMBEAU (52) is at the lectern. The chalkboard
behind him is covered with theorems.
LAMBEAU
Please finish McKinley by next month.
Many of you probably had this as undergraduates in real
analysis. It won't hurt to brush up. I am also putting an
advanced fourier system on the main hallway chalkboard--
Everyone groans.
LAMBEAU
I'm hoping that one of you might
prove it by the end of the semester.
The first person to do so will not
only be in my good graces, but go on
to fame and fortune by having their
accomplishment recorded and their
name printed in the auspicious "M.I.T.
Tech."
Prof. Lambeau holds up a thin publication entitled "M.I.T.
Tech." Everyone laughs.
LAMBEAU
Former winners include Nobel
Laureates, world renowned astro-
physicists, Field's Medal winners
and lowly M.I.T. professors.
More laughs.
LAMBEAU
Okay. That is all.
A smattering of applause. Students pack their bags.
CUT TO:
INT. FUNLAND – LATER
The place is a monster indoor funpark. Will, Chuckie, Morgan,
and Billy are in adjoining batting cages. Will has disabled
the pitching machine in his and pitches to Chuckie. The boys
have been drinking. Will throws one to Chuckie, high and
tight.
Several empty beer cans sit by the cage.
CHUCKIE
Will!
Another pitch, inside.
CHUCKIE
You're gonna get charged!
WILL
You think I'm afraid of you, you big
****? You're crowdin' the plate.
Will guns another one, way inside.
CHUCKIE
Stop brushin' me back!
WILL
Stop crowdin the plate!
Chuckie laughs and steps back.
CHUCKIE
Casey's bouncin' at a bar up Harvard.
We should go there sometime.
WILL
What are we gonna do up there?
CHUCKIE
I don't know, we'll **** up some
smart kids.
(stepping back in)
You'd prob'ly fit right in.
WILL
**** you.
Will fires a pitch at Chuckie's head. Chuckie dives to avoid
being hit. He gets up and whips his batting helmet at Will.
CUT TO:
EXT. SOUTH BOSTON ROOFTOP -- EARLY AFTERNOON
SEAN McGUIRE (52) sits, FORMALLY DRESSED, on the roof of his
apartment building in a beat-up lawn chair. Well-built and
fairly muscular, he stares blankly out over the city.
On his lap rests an open invitation that reads "M.I.T. CLASS
OF '67 REUNION."
While the morning is quiet and Sean sits serenely, there is
a look about his that tells us he has faced hard times. This
is a man who fought his way through life. On his lonely stare
we:
CUT TO:
EXT. M.I.T. CAMPUS LAWN -- DAY
A thirty year REUNION PARTY has taken over the lawn. A well
dressed throng mill about underneath a large banner that
reads "WELCOME BACK CLASS OF '72." We find Professor Lambeau
standing with a drink in his hand, surveying the crowd. He
is interrupted by an approaching STUDENT.
STUDENT
Excuse me, Professor Lambeau?
LAMBEAU
Yes.
STUDENT
I'm in your applied theories class.
We're all down at the Math and Science
building.
LAMBEAU
It's Saturday.
STUDENT
I know. We just couldn't wait 'till
Monday to find out.
LAMBEAU
Find out what?
STUDENT
Who proved the theorem.
EXT. TOM FOLEY PARK, S. BOSTON -- AFTERNOON
In the bleachers of the visiting section we find our boys,
drinking and smoking cigarettes. Will pops open a beer. The
boys have been here a while and it shows.
Billy sees something that catches his interest.
BILLY
Who's that? She's got a nice ass.
Their P.O.V. reveals a girl in stretch pants talking to a
beefy looking ITALIAN GUY (BOBBY CHAMPA)
MORGAN
Yah, that is a nice ass.
CHUCKIE
You could put a pool in that backyard.
BILLY
Who's she talking to?
MORGAN
That ****in' guinea, Will knows him.
WILL
Yah, Bobby Champa. He used to beat
the **** outta' me in Kindergarten.
BILLY
He's a pretty big kid.
WILL
Yah, he's the same size now as he
was in Kindergarten.
MORGAN
**** this, let's get something to
eat...
CHUCKIE
What Morgan, you're not gonna go
talk to her?
MORGAN
**** her.
The boys get up and walk down the bleachers.
WILL
I could go for a Whopper.
MORGAN
(nonchalant)
Let's hit "Kelly's."
CHUCKIE
Morgan, I'm not goin' to "Kelly's
Roast Beef" just cause you like the
take-out girl. It's fifteen minutes
out of our way.
MORGAN
What else we gonna do we can't spare
fifteen minutes?
CHUCKIE
All right Morgan, fine. I'll tell
you why we're not going to "Kelly's."
It's because the take-out ***** is a
****in' idiot. I'm sorry you like
her but she's dumb as a post and she
has never got our order right, never
once.
MORGAN
She's not stupid.
WILL
She's sharp as a marble.
CHUCKIE
We're not goin'.
(beat)
I don't even like "Kelly's."
CUT TO:
INT. M.I.T. HALLWAY -- LATER
Lambeau, still in his reunion formal-wear, strides down the
hallway, carrying some papers. A group of students have
gathered by the chalkboard. They part like the red sea as he
approaches the board. Using the papers in hand, he checks
the proof.
Satisfied, he turns to the class.
LAMBEAU
This is correct? Who did this?
Dead silence. Lambeau turns to an INDIAN STUDENT.
LAMBEAU
Nemesh?
Nemesh shakes his head in awe.
NEMESH
No way.
Lambeau erases the proof and starts putting up a new one.
LAMBEAU
Well, whoever You are, I'm sure you'll
find this one challenging enough to
merit coming forward with your
identity. That is, if you can do
it.
INT. CHUCKIE'S CAR, DRIVING IN SOUTH BOSTON -- CONTINUOUS
The street is crowded as our boys drive down Broadway. They
move slowly through heavy traffic, windows down. Chuckie
sorts through a large "KELLY'S ROAST BEEF" BAG as he drives.
MORGAN
Double Burger.
Will holds the wheel for Chuckie as he looks through the
bag.
MORGAN
(same tone)
Double Burger.
Chuckie gets out fries for himself, hands Will his fries.
MORGAN
I, I had a Kelly's Double Burger.
CHUCKIE
Would you shut the **** up! I know
what you ordered, I was there!
MORGAN
So why don't you give me my sandwich?
CHUCKIE
What do you mean "your sandwich?" I
bought it.
MORGAN
(sarcastic)
Yah, all right...
CHUCKIE
How much money you got?
MORGAN
I told you, I just got change.
CHUCKIE
Well give me your ****in' change and
we'll put your ****in' sandwich on
layaway.
MORGAN
Why you gotta be an ******* Chuckie?
CHUCKIE
I think you should establish a good
line of credit.
Laughter, Chuckie goes back searching through the bag.
CHUCKIE
Oh ************...
WILL
She didn't do it again did she?
CHUCKIE
Jesus Christ. Not even close.
MORGAN
Did she get my Double Burger?
CHUCKIE
NO SHE DIDN'T GET YOUR DOUBLE BURGER!!
IT'S ALL ****IN' FLYIN' FISH FILET!!
Chuckie whips a FISH SANDWICH back to Morgan, then to Billy.
WILL
Jesus, that's really bad, did anyone
even order a Flyin' Fish?
CHUCKIE
No, and we got four of 'em.
BILLY
You gotta' be kiddin' me. Why do we
even go to her?
CHUCKIE
Cause ****in' Morgan's got a crush
on her, we always go there and when
we get to the window he never says a
****in' word to her, he never even
gets out of the car, and she never
gets our order right cause she's the
god**** MISSING LINK!
WILL
Well, she out did herself today...
MORGAN
I don't got a crush on her.
Push in on Will who sees something O.S.
Will's P.O.V. reveals BOBBY CHAMPA and his friends walking
down the street. One of them casually lobs a bottle into a
wire garbage can. It SHATTERS and some of the glass hits a
FEMALE PASSERBY who, although unhurt, is upset.
CHUCKIE
What do we got?
WILL
I don't know yet.
Will's P.O.V.: The woman says something to Bobby. He says
something back. By the look on her face, it was something
unpleasant.
MORGAN
Come on, Will...
CHUCKIE
Shut up.
MORGAN
No, why didn't you fight him at the
park if you wanted to? I'm not goin'
now, I'm eatin' my snack.
WILL
(smiles)
So don't go.
Will is out of the door, jogging toward Bobby Champa. Billy
gets out, following Will with a look of casual indifference.
CHUCKIE
Morgan, Let's go.
MORGAN
I'm serious Chuckie, I ain't goin'.
Leaving the car, Chuckie opens his door to follow.
CHUCKIE
(spins in his seat)
You're goin'. And if you're not out
there in two ****in' seconds, when
I'm done with them you're next!
And with that, Chuckie is out the door.
CUT TO:
EXT. SIDEWALK --CONTINUOUS
Will comes jogging up towards BOBBY CHAMPA, calling out from
across the street,
WILL
(smiling, good
naturedly)
Hey, Bobby Champa! I went to
Kindergarten with you right? Sister
Margaret's class...
Bobby is bewildered by this strange interruption and unsure
of Will's intentions. Just when it looks as though Bobby
might remember him, Will DRILLS HIM with a sucker-punch which
begins the
FIGHT SEQUENCE: 40 FRAMES OVER M. GAYE'S "LET'S GET IT ON."
Will's momentum and res
Will's momentum and respectable strength serve to knock the
hapless Champa out cold.
As soon as Will hits Bobby, his friends CONVERGE ON WILL.
Billy JUMPS IN and wrestles one guy to the ground. The two
exchange messy punches on the sidewalk.
Will is in trouble, back pedaling, dodging punches, trying
to avoid being overrun.
When Will goes for one guy, another has an open shot and he
HAMMERS WILL with a right hand to the head.
Will is staggered and bleary, as a second guy winds up for a
shot he is BLIND SIDED by Chuckie who hits the kid like he
was a tackling sled, lifting him off the ground.
Chuckie turns to see Will still outnumbered. It's all Will
can do to stay standing as Morgan DROP KICKS one of Champa's
boys from the hood of a car.
Contrary to what we might think, Morgan is actually quite a
fighter. He peppers the kid with a flurry of blows.
The fight is messy, ugly and chaotic. Most punches are thrown
wildly and miss, heads are banged against concrete, someone
throws a bottle.
In the end, it's our guys who are left standing, while Bobby's
friends stagger off. Chuckie and Morgan turn to see Will,
standing over the unconscious Bobby Champa, still POUNDING
him.
ANGLE ON WILL: SAVAGE, UGLY, VICIOUS, AND VIOLENT
Whatever demons must be raging inside Will, he is taking
them out on Bobby Champa. He pummels the helpless, unconscious
Champa, fury in his eyes. Chuckie and Billy pull Will away.
The POLICE finally arrive on the scene and having only
witnessed Will's vicious attack on Champa, they grab him.
EXT. SIDEWALK (FULL SPEED) -- CONTINUOUS
A crowd of onlookers have gathered. Chuckie addresses them.
CHUCKIE
Hey, thanks for comin' out.
WILL
Yeah, you're all invited over to
Morgan's house for a complementary
fish sandwich.
The Police slam Will into the hood of a car.
WILL
(to Police)
Hey, I know it's not a French cruller,
but it's free.
The cop holding Will SLAMS his [Will's] face into the hood,
another cop uses a baton to press Will's face into the car.
The look of rage returns to Will's eye.
WILL
Get the **** off me!
Will resists. Another cop comes over. Will KICKS HIM IN THE
KNEE, dropping the cop. Momentarily freed, Will engages in a
fracas with three cops. More converge on Will, who -- though
he struggles -- takes a beating.
CUT TO:
EXT. SEAN'S ROOF -- NIGHT
Sean sits, exactly as we first saw him, except his tie is
now loose and an empty bottle of BUSHMILLS is at his side.
He stares out over the City. A MATRONLY LANDLADY comes out
of a doorway on the roof.
LANDLADY
Sean?
Sean doesn't answer.
LANDLADY
Sean? You okay?
SEAN
Yeah.
A beat.
LANDLADY
It's getting cold.
After a moment, she retreats back down the stairs. Sean
doesn't move.
DISSOLVE:
EXT. CHARLES RIVER, ESTABLISHING SHOT -- MORNING
The morning sun reflects brilliantly off the river.
CUT TO:
EXT. COURTHOUSE -- NEXT MORNING
Will emerges from the courthouse. Chuckie is waiting for him
in the Cadillac with two cups of DUNKIN' DOUGHNUTS coffee.
He hands one of them to Will. This feels routine.
CHUCKIE
When's the arraignment?
WILL
Next week.
Chuckie pulls away.
CUT TO:
EXT. M.I.T. CAMPUS, ESTABLISHING SHOT -- MORNING
Students walk to class, carrying bags. More than any other,
students seem to be heading into one PARTICULAR CLASSROOM.
INT. M.I.T. CLASSROOM -- MORNING
The classroom is even more crowded than last we saw it. Tom
takes notes as Lambeau plays along with the excited
environment with mock pomposity and good humor.
LAMBEAU
Is it my imagination, or has my class
grown considerably?
Laughter.
LAMBEAU
I look around and see young people
who are my students, young people
who are not my students as well as
some of my colleagues. And by no
stretch of my imagination do I think
you've all come to hear me lecture.
More laughter.
LAMBEAU
But rather to ascertain the identity
of who our esteemed "The Tech" has
come to call "The Mystery Math
Magician."
He holds up the M.I.T. Tech featuring a silhouetted figure,
emblazoned with a large, white question mark. The headline
reads "Mystery Math Magician strikes again."
LAMBEAU
Whoever you are, you've solved four
of the most difficult theorems I've
ever given a class. So without further
ado, come forward silent rogue, and
receive thy prize.
The class waits in breathless anticipation. A STUDENT shifts
his weight in his chair, making a noise.
LAMBEAU
Well, I'm sorry to disappoint my
spectators, but it appears there
will be no unmasking here today. I'm
going to have to ask those of you
not enrolled in the class to make
your escape now or, for the next
three hours be subjected to the
mundities of eigenvectors.
People start to gather their things and go. Lambeau picks up
a piece of chalk and starts writing on the board.
LAMBEAU
However, my colleagues and I have
conferred. There is a problem on the
board, right now, that took us two
years to prove. So let this be said;
the gauntlet has been thrown down.
But the faculty have answered the
challenge and answered with vigor.
CUT TO:
OMITTED
INT. M.I.T. HALLWAY -- NIGHT
Lambeau comes out of his office with Tom and locks the door.
As he turns to walk down the hallway, he stops. A faint
TICKING SOUND can be heard. He turns and walks down the hall.
Lambeau and Tom come around a corner. His P.O.V. reveals a
figure in silhouette blazing through the proof on the
chalkboard. There is a mop and a bucket beside him. As Lambeau
draws closer, reveal that the figure is Will, in his janitor's
uniform. There is a look of intense concentration in his
eyes.
LAMBEAU
Excuse me!
Will looks up, immediately starts to shuffle off.
WILL
Oh, I'm sorry.
LAMBEAU
What're you doing?
WILL
(walking away)
I'm sorry.
Lambeau follows Will down the hall.
LAMBEAU
What's your name?
(beat)
Don't you walk away from me. This is
people's work, you can't graffiti
here.
WILL
Hey **** you.
LAMBEAU
(flustered)
Well... I'll be speaking to your
supervisor.
Will walks out. Lambeau goes to "fix" the proof, scanning
the blackboard for whatever damage Will caused. He stops,
scans the board again. Amazement registers on his face.
LAMBEAU
My God.
Down the hall, we hear the DOOR CLOSE. He turns to look for
Will, who is gone.
CUT TO:
EXT. BOW AND ARROW PUB, CAMBRIDGE -- THAT NIGHT
A crowded Harvard Bar. Will and our gang walk by a line of
several Harvard students, waiting to be carded.
MORGAN
What happened?
(beat)
You got fired, huh?
WILL
Yeah, Morgan. I got fired.
MORGAN
(starts laughing)
How ****in' retarded do you have to
be to get ****-canned from that job?
How hard is it to push a ****in'
broom?
CHUCKIE
You got fired from pushing a broom,
you little ******
MORGAN
Yah, that was different. Management
was restructurin'--
BILLY
Yah, restructurin' the amount of
retards they had workin' for them.
MORGAN
**** you, you fat ****.
BILLY
Least I work for a livin'.
(to Will)
Why'd you get fired?
WILL
Management was restructurin'.
Laughter.
CHUCKIE
My uncle can probably get you on my
demo team.
MORGAN
What the ****? I just asked you for
a job yesterday!
CHUCKIE
I told you "no" yesterday!
After two students flash their ID's to the doorman (CASEY)
our boys file past him.
ALL
(one after another)
What's up Case.
With an imperceptible nod, Casey waves our boys through. A
fifth kid, a HARVARD STUDENT, tries to follow. He is stopped
by Casey's massive, outstretched arm:
CASEY
ID?
INT. BOW AND ARROW -- CONTINUOUS
Chuckie is collecting money from the guys to buy a pitcher,
all but Morgan cough up some crumpled dollars.
CHUCKIE
So, this is a Harvard bar, huh? I
thought there'd be equations and
**** on the wall.
INT. BACK SECTION, BOW AND ARROW -- MOMENTS LATER
Chuckie returns to a table where Will, Morgan and Billy have
made themselves comfortable. He [Chuckie] spots two ATTRACTIVE
YOUNG HARVARD WOMEN sitting together at the end of the bar.
Chuckie struts his way toward the women and pulls up a chair.
He flashes a smile and tries to submerge his thick Boston
accent.
CHUCKIE
Hey, how's it goin'?
LYDIA
Fine.
SKYLAR
Okay.
CHUCKIE
So, you ladies ah, go to school here?
LYDIA
Yes.
CHUCKIE
Yeah, cause I think I had a class
with you.
At this point, several interested parties materialize. Morgan
Billy and Will try, as inconspicuously as possible, to situate
themselves within listening distance. A rather large student
in a HARVARD LACROSSE sweatshirt, CLARK (22) notices Chuckie.
He [Clark] walks over to Skylar and Lydia, nobly hovering
over them as protector. This gets Will, Morgan, and Billy's
attention.
SKYLAR
What class?
CHUCKIE
Ah, history I think.
SKYLAR
Oh...
CHUCKIE
Yah, it's not a bad school...
At this point, Clark can't resist and steps in.
CLARK
What class did you say that was?
CHUCKIE
History.
CLARK
How'd you like that course?
CHUCKIE
Good, it was all right.
CLARK
History? Just "history?" It must
have been a survey course then.
Chuckie nods. Clark notices Chuckie's clothes. Will and Billy
exchange a look and move subtly closer.
CLARK
Pretty broad. "History of the World?"
CHUCKIE
Hey, come on pal we're in classes
all day. That's one thing about
Harvard never seizes to amaze me,
everybody's talkin' about school all
the time.
CLARK
Hey, I'm the last guy to want to
talk about school at the bar. But as
long as you're here I want to "seize"
the opportunity to ask you a question.
Billy shifts his beer into his left hand. Will and Morgan
see this. Morgan rolls his eyes as if to say "not again..."
CLARK
Oh, I'm sure you covered it in your
history class.
Clark looks to see if the girls are impressed. They are not.
When Clark looks back to Chuckie, Skylar turns to Lydia and
rolls her [own] eyes. They laugh. Will sees this and smiles.
CHUCKIE
To tell you the truth, I wasn't there
much. The class was rather elementary.
CLARK
Elementary? Oh, I don't doubt that
it was. I remember the class, it was
just between recess and lunch.
Will and Billy come forward, stand behind Chuckie.
CHUCKIE
All right, are we gonna have a
problem?
CLARK
There's no problem. I was just hoping
you could give me some insight into
the evolution of the market economy
in the early colonies. My contention
is that prior to the Revolutionary
War the economic modalities especially
of the southern colonies could most
aptly be characterized as agrarian
precapitalist and...
Will, who at this point has migrated to Chuckie's side and
is completely fed-up, includes himself in the conversation.
WILL
Of course that's your contention.
You're a first year grad student.
You just finished some Marxian
historian, Pete Garrison prob'ly,
and so naturally that's what you
believe until next month when you
get to James Lemon and get convinced
that Virginia and Pennsylvania were
strongly entrepreneurial and
capitalist back in 1740. That'll
last until sometime in your second
year, then you'll be in here
regurgitating Gordon Wood about the
Pre-revolutionary utopia and the
capital-forming effects of military
mobilization.
CLARK
(taken aback)
Well, as a matter of fact, I won't,
because Wood drastically
underestimates the impact of--
WILL
"Wood drastically underestimates the
impact of social distinctions
predicated upon wealth, especially
inherited wealth..." You got that
from "Work in Essex County," Page
421, right? Do you have any thoughts
of your own on the subject or were
you just gonna plagiarize the whole
book for me?
Clark is stunned.
WILL
Look, don't try to pass yourself off
as some kind of an intellect at the
expense of my friend just to impress
these girls.
Clark is lost now, searching for a graceful exit, any exit.
WILL
The sad thing is, in about 50 years
you might start doin' some thinkin'
on your own and by then you'll realize
there are only two certainties in
life.
CLARK
Yeah? What're those?
WILL
One, don't do that. Two -- you
dropped a hundred and fifty grand on
an education you coulda' picked up
for a dollar fifty in late charges
at the Public Library.
Will catches Skylar's eye.
CLARK
But I will have a degree, and you'll
be serving my kids fries at a drive
through on our way to a skiing trip.
WILL
(smiles)
Maybe. But at least I won't be a
******
(beat)
And if you got a problem with that,
I guess we can step outside and deal
with it that way.
While Will is substantially smaller than Clark, he [Clark]
decides not to take Will up on his [Will's] offer.
WILL
If you change your mind, I'll be
over by the bar.
He turns and walks away. Chuckie follows, throwing Clark a
look.
Morgan turns to a nearby girl.
MORGAN
My boy's wicked smart.
INT. BOW AND ARROW, AT THE BAR -- LATER
Will sits with Morgan at the bar watching with some amusement
as Chuckie and Billy play bar basketball game where the
players shoot miniature balls at a small basket. In the B.G.
occasionally we hear Chuckie shouting "Larry!" When he scores.
Skylar emerges from the crowd and approaches Will.
SKYLAR
You suck.
WILL
What?
SKYLAR
I've been sitting over there for
forty-five minutes waiting for you
to come talk to me. But I'm just
tired now and I have to go home and
I wasn't going to keep sitting there
waiting for you.
WILL
I'm Will.
SKYLAR
Skylar. And by the way. That guy
over there is a real dick and I just
wanted you to know he didn't come
with us.
WILL
I kind of got that impression.
SKYLAR
Well, look, I have to go. Gotta' get
up early and waste some more money
on my overpriced education.
WILL