Answer the question.
Nah, l'm not gonna
answer your question,
'cause you guys have
already made up your minds.
l'm an expert in rejection,
and l can see it on your faces.
And it's too bad
that you judge us
by the way we look
and not by who we are.
Just because you want us
to be more like them
when the truth is
we're not like them.
And l am damn proud of that fact.
Rock on!
l mean,
Harmon College and their--
and their 100 years
of tradition.
But tradition of what?
Of hazing kids
and humiliating anyone
who's a little bit different?
Of putting
so much pressure on kids
they turn into these--
these stress freaks
and caffeine addicts.
Your phony school
demeans real colleges
everywhere!
Why? Why can't
we both exist? Huh?
You can have your grades,
and your rules
and your structure,
and your ivory towers,
and then we'll do things our way.
Why do we have to conform
to what you want?
Your curriculum is a joke,
and you, sir, are a criminal.
You know what?
You're a criminal.
'Cause you rob these kids
of their creativity
and their passion.
(ALL CHEERlNG)
That's the real crime!
Yeah.
Maybe he's right.
Well, what about you parents?
Did--Did the system
really work out for you?
Did it teach you
to follow your heart,
or to just play it safe,
roll over?
What about you guys?
Did you always want to be
school administrators?
Dr. Alexander,
was that your dream?
Or maybe no,
maybe you wanted to be a poet.
Maybe you wanted to be
a magician or an artist.
Maybe you just wanted
to travel the world.
Look, l--l--l--l lied to you.
l lied to all of you,
and l'm sorry.
Dad, especially to you.
But out of that desperation,
something happened
that was so amazing.
Life was full of possibilities.
A-A-And isn't that what you
ultimately want for us?
As parents, l mean,
is--is that,
is possibilities.
Well, we came here today
to ask for your approval,
and something
just occurred to me.
l don't give a shit!
Who cares about your approval?
We don't need your approval
to tell us that
what we did was real.
'Cause there are so few truths
in this world,
that when you see one,
you know it.
And l know that it is a truth
that real learning
took place at South Harmon.
Whether you like it or not,
it did.
'Cause you don't need teachers
or classrooms
or--or fancy
highbrow traditions
or money to really learn.
You just need people
with a desire
to better themselves,
and we got that
by the shitload
at South Harmon.
So you can go ahead,
sign your forms,
reject us and shoot us down,
and do whatever you gotta do.
lt doesn't really matter
at this point.
Because we'll never
stop learning,
and we'll never stop growing,
and we'll never forget
the ideals that were
instilled in us
at our place.
'Cause we are
S.H.l. T. heads now,
and we'll be
S.H.l. T. heads forever
and nothing you can say
or do or stamp
can take that away from us!
So go!
Go ahead!
