I picked the poem History teacher by Billy Collins because as someone who comes from the Bronx I’ve seen that many children now a days have been deprived of their innocence. I would not say basically deprived but children now a day tend to know a lot of things i did not know when i was 7 or 8 years old. It is quite interesting seeing 8 year old kid cursing, calling each other “niggas.”

One way in which this happens, is that kids are exposed to so much at a young age. Unfortunately some of these things is out of their controls. Some are exposed to many things that happen inside their home, which is then incorporated to the way they behave and the way they talk.

I’m not sure what i want to do exactly in my video but i know that i want to do something in which i demonstrate how important and beautiful it is to maintain the innocence of a child. Although lying is not a good thing, it is something that might be necessary to make sure these kids find out adult things. Kids are very curious and i feel like if they are exposed to all these things they are not supposed to, then they would like to act on it, just like saying bad and inappropriate things.