180 Days: Hartsville Promo 100 30 Seconds
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Channel: South Carolina ETV · 2015 · News & Politics
Small stories and surprising victories bring the battle between small town poverty and education to light when camera crews spend an entire school year inside two South Carolina schools. In 180 Days: Hartsville, viewers will meet educators, families, and business leaders in daily battle with poverty and education. Principal King has gone from being a troubled student to working to save a troubled student. Thornwell Elementary School principal Julie Mahn, daughter of sharecroppers, is the first in her family to go to college. Monay, herself a high school dropout, demonstrates the varied pressures on single mothers as she struggles to raise three children while juggling two jobs. Her son Rashon, a fifth grade student in West Hartsville Elementary, is a bright boy but his behavior is threatening his own educational future. Pierre Brown is not only one of the only male teachers that we see in the film, he’s also one of the only male role models in his students’ lives. Original air date: March 17, 2015 in two back-to-back episodes. Presented on PBS by South Carolina ETV (www.scetv.org)
