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Precious as a program
My chapter, Metropolitan Dallas Alumnae, sponsored a special viewing of Precious this past Sunday. We had a brief Q&A with two mental health clinicians, one from our chapter. We sold the entire theater out and folks are still writing, stopping by, just wanting to process the film and book. The best thing was having our psychiatrist and psychologist there to field questions and just let people debrief. Our participant evals came back with phenomenal ratings.
I've been in the urban classroom 15 years and have taught many a Precious. There are so many things both in the book and film that brought me to tears, but the most poignant, was seeing a BLACK teacher (though Paula sho' is light, lol) save a Black student. Not since the Marva Collins Story nor Lean on Me, has Hollywood taken upon itself to show that we can save our own kids. Lee Daniels clearly is an independent film maker, but I just had my chest out watching it all. I'm tired of students asking me, "Miss, when will they do a movie about you and the work you do?" Precious is my movie.
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