I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School

Susan Raymond's Emmy-, Oscar- and Peabody-winning "I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary" looks at a school in the middle of the Philly ghetto. Many of the children come from broken homes, and the principal often has to read then the riot act. The question remains as to whether or not these students will graduate, and what will become of them if they manage to.

Watching the documentary, I kept thinking the same thing that I think whenever I hear about a mass shooting: the US is the only industrialized country where this is an issue. Much like how the rest of the industrialized world regulates guns, it also fully funds its schools; Finland apparently has the best schools in the world (and if you say "But it's ethnically homogeneous," then you're basically admitting that you want segregation).

Anyway, this documentary is worth seeing. I wonder what became of the students, and whether or not Susan and Alan Raymond made any other documentaries.