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- 09-16-2011
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By Kathryn Baron/Thoughts on Public Education
It’s hard to know what 17-month-old Terreace makes of his world, but his mother has an idea. In Valerie Klinker’s three-and-a-half minute film, Through My Eyes, she follows Terreace and his 3-year-old brother Terry from morning through evening bath time, describing the signs of poverty in their neighborhood as if spoken by her curly-haired toddler. “Daddy doesn’t like us to take our shoes off,” narrates Klinker as the boys play in the sand and on climbing structures at the park. “He said there are things in the park that little kids shouldn’t touch,” she continues as the camera focuses first on a hole in the ground that has sharp sticks in it, then on two small rectangular packages that look like they may hold syringes. Klinker and seven other young journalists showed their films this week at a forum sponsored by New America Media, called “Growing up poor in the Bay Area.” (more...)
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