CLASSROOM STORIES

Name: Geri and the 40 Bandits
Uploaded: 2024-10-06T01:05:14.008Z
Duration: 5 min 4 s
Description: Geri is a 25-year-old teacher. On the first day of school, she finds herself at a "Roma" school in a small Bulgarian town, facing 20 scared 5th graders, who have been sentenced to illiteracy by an educational system designed to fail. The film picks up 7 months later. Has Geri changed anything? How do the kids treat her? Will it all end in tears? Find out in our 5' webisode.

Intimate documentary portraits of teachers starting out on their Teach for All journey. In partnership with Vivacom, Teach for Bulgaria and Dnevnik.

5 teachers, 3 small towns, 6 episodes. We shot this small web series in partnership with Vivacom and Teach for Bulgaria back in 2012, when the first energetic cohort of young TFB teachers was entering their two-year classroom journeys. Full of energy, hope, and drive – and completely unprepared for what is waiting for them in these schools full of bored kids who have long given up on any dream bigger than waitress or car mechanic, each of the young teachers finds their way to ignite a spark in their students and show them that they are better than they think they are.

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Geri and the 40 Bandits

Geri is a 25-year-old teacher. On the first day of school, she finds herself at a "Roma" school in a small Bulgarian town, facing 20 scared 5th graders, who have been sentenced to illiteracy by an educational system designed to fail. The film picks up 7 months later. Has Geri changed anything? How do the kids treat her? Will it all end in tears? Find out in our 5' webisode.

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