AIN’T NOTHING FUNNY - DOCUMENTARY

DROP OUT PREVENTION PROGRAM

 

 

Many U.S. citizens believe that the biggest reasons for the waywardness that leads to increased crime and unproductive families fundamentally stem from inadequate education and low self-esteem.

I used to get tired of every young black male telling me they wanted to be a pro football player or a rapper. Man, I wished they’d stop telling me that.

As it turns out at least they wanted something.

While making this film, we would ask,

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

From 16 to 36 the answer would most often be, “I don’t know.”

And then they’d laughed. And say it again.

But the problem is “Ain’t Nothing Funny.”

 

We must change the mentality or thought processes that give rise to destructive behavior amongst our young people.

 

The Schott Report and data used in creating the McKinney-Vento Act confirm that way too many children are academically challenged due to overwhelming environmental concerns. You may be a student that has some experience with homelessness, domestic violence, abuse, foster care or may be the child of an incarcerated parent. It doesn’t matter; life doesn’t get better by chance, it gets better by choice.

 

Just really look back on your life and realize how much more successful you would have been, at a younger age, had somebody, anybody, in your life truly cared.

 

What if someone would have taught you to wear a tie to all job interviews? What if someone would have taken you on trips just to show you that there was much more to life than what was happening on your block?

 

What if someone would have shown you in a dollars and sense kinda way the value of education? Had proven to you the direct correlation between what you choose to do now and what you will be able to choose to do later?

 

 

Ain’t Nothing Funny is the answer. When bundled with the new Instructor’s Guide and Student Support Workbook filled with writing assignments, vocabulary words, group discussion questions and more, Ain’t Nothing Funny teaches valuable real world success strategies.

 

Ain't Nothing Funny takes the messages hidden in the novel, Do as I Say, Not as I Do and puts them right in your face. It is a thought provoking and motivational dropout prevention tool and self-help instrument. But, this is not a program that is supposed to make you feel good. It is a program of study that will challenge you to look inside yourself and decide, once and for all, what it is that you will do to help make your life better.

 

Serious use of this documentary and curriculum will equip you with many ideas, strategies, and helpful tools to remove the labels other people want to place on you. You will develop stronger critical thinking skills. You will complete assignments that will both improve your vocabulary and writing ability. You will come to fully understand how acquiring an education is directly related to how well you feel about yourself and how far you travel in life. You will be exposed to a broader view of the world in which you live and given insight on alternative avenues for making a difference with your life.

 

Reading in the paper about another one of our babies lost to drugs, the cemetery, or incarceration, most often because they didn’t use education to free them from whatever bondage may have existed in their immediate environments, hasn’t ever been a laughing matter to us. I’m sure you agree… “Ain’t Nothing Funny.”