Name: Ellen Presents SUMMIT Episode 1
Uploaded: 2019-04-11T00:15:45.000Z
Duration: 11 min 9 s
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who had no idea I would be talking about them.

They're educators from Brooklyn, New York,

in a community where only 4% of the kids go to college.

They come from homes where the homes sometimes have no food,

and yet 93% of their seniors from last year

Let's talk about the community that the school is in.

So we are in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn,

and it is one of Brooklyn's most under-served communities.

Over 28% of the children under the age of 16 live in poverty.

no matter what they've gone through, they never give up.

These kids have overcome all kinds of things,

And all they want to do is go to college.

and they want to give each one of you a four-year scholarship.

I cannot wait to see in four years what these young people

I can't wait to see how we helped launch their lives.

I can tell you that the class of 2017, 100% of our kids

Wherever we go, our kids are being recognized.

And if you looked up Red Hook two years ago,

that's the community where those kids are going to college.

And the scholarship afforded our scholars a loan-free education.

Because Ellen and Walmart have helped me.

I'm usually spending a lot of time in here,

like when I'm supposed to be in class but I come here.

She came here, she was a bit of a terror.

We weren't sure that college was really what her future held.

When I first came to this school, I was loud, I was rude,

Like, if I didn't come to this school I think I'd be in jail.

There wouldn't be-- there wouldn't be no me

I think it's because I'm not going to be with people--

Yeah, I feel like sitting here and talking

to you about my whole life, and you won't judge,

you know that probably wasn't a good idea.

I say, yeah, I know, but I was mad, you know?

Her mom had her when she was in middle school.

There's no shame in her having her at middle school,

because guess what, she has a kid going to college.

So every day I would look up at it, like, I did that.

That was my favorite-- one of my highest scores I ever got.

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Ellen Presents SUMMIT Episode 1

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