Meet the West Philly teacher who inspired Quinta Brunson's 'Abbott Elementary'

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  • Опубликовано: 14 фев 2022
  • Joyce Abbott, who taught Quinta Brunson's 6th grade class and inspired the show 'Abbott Elementary,' reflects on her years teaching at Andrew Hamilton Elementary in West Philadelphia.
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Комментарии • 414

  • @timy9197
    @timy9197 2 года назад +3

    It’s touching that her 6th grade teacher had this much impact on her

  • @ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy
    @ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy Год назад +2

    Ms Abbott changing Quinta's life to the point where there's a hit TV show about teaching is literally going to change the world. ❤️

  • @dlmg5707
    @dlmg5707 Год назад +1

    To have a WHOLE show named after YOU, means you definitely had an impact. And that impact keeps spreading. Well done and thank you for your service.

  • @SuzetteRiddick
    @SuzetteRiddick 2 года назад +2

    God bless teachers like Ms. Abbott. ❤

  • @lorenw6747
    @lorenw6747 Год назад +390

    The fact she has a whole scrapbook of her students 😭 and she still has Quinta is crazy. I wish our teachers would be treated better than they were.

  • @chefsadedancy319
    @chefsadedancy319 2 года назад +2

    Ms Abbot is the best teacher I’ve ever had!! So gentle but firm, supportive, intelligent, kind.. I could go all day!! Always pushing her students to their highest potential!! She is truly an angel here on earth.. a GODSEND for sure. I feel blessed to have been able to be a part of her life. 🖤🖤🖤

  • @tl6932
    @tl6932 2 года назад +1

    She still has pictures of her students from all of those years ago 💞

  • @tinamarie8061
    @tinamarie8061 2 года назад +352

    When she called them “my children” you know its real

  • @chaallus
    @chaallus 2 года назад +1

    "It's overwhelming, but it's an honor." W O W that got me in the feels!!

  • @davidpeer5769
    @davidpeer5769 Год назад +934

    Teachers like this are the backbone in so many children's development and aren't compensated nearly enough for the incredibly vital work they do. Hats off to Ms. Abbott and all the teachers like her!

  • @projectpamaphd7042
    @projectpamaphd7042 2 года назад +560

    The city has money to build sports stadiums, but no money for education. Really?! Teachers like

  • @beyoutyisinthei5552
    @beyoutyisinthei5552 2 года назад +508

    Teachers go through a LOT! We are mommies and daddies, doctors and nurses, friends to a degree, hairdressers, food suppliers, support givers, shoulders to cry on, actors and actresses, and the list goes on. It is absolute torture to hear such terms as "glorified babysitters" or "just a teacher". Here is my take on it, if you think so little of us YOU keep your kids. YOU make sure your kids are up to par academically. YOU deal with your kids behavior everyday, all day and your own lack of support. YOU keep being the perfect YOU who seems to have all the answers.BUT keep your child. And have a blessed day.🙏🏾

  • @koushikraja331
    @koushikraja331 Год назад +4

    she's got Janine's infectious energy, Barbara's wisdom and classiness and Melissa's speech delivery and sense of humor.

  • @nicksurfs1
    @nicksurfs1 Год назад +176

    I was so lucky to have a teacher like her. Mrs. Bair, we love you. She used to have soap for the kids who didn’t have plumbing at home so they could shower at school. She also always had toilet paper they could take home. She was also the best teacher in the school to cry to. I was going through a lot at the time and her room was always the one I went to when I needed to cry. Many times there would be several of us sitting together at a table who had come to her room to cry and to feel heard.

  • @mbirk2011
    @mbirk2011 2 года назад +91

    Imagine being so inspiration that one of your students decides to name a hit television show after you!

  • @gospel3067
    @gospel3067 2 года назад +280

    She is so correct about inner city. I interned a summer in high school at a grammar school in the Chicago projects and saw 1st hand how teachers go above & beyond as I went alongside to help lighten the load on them.

  • @bryaneberly3588
    @bryaneberly3588 2 года назад +323

    PLEASE write that book! Thank you for being an example. Thank you for having and keeping a heart. <3

  • @vecarter569
    @vecarter569 2 года назад +372

    May there be millions more teachers like Mrs. Abbott. Bless her always! 🙏🏾❤🌹👏🏾 She has given many kids hope and a different course of life projection...through her kindness.

  • @Fumi_lola
    @Fumi_lola 2 года назад +69

    Quinta was also inspired by her mom who was a school teacher in Philly for 20 years.

  • @sheilawilliams5213
    @sheilawilliams5213 2 года назад +49

    No wonder Quintal remembered you so dearly in honoring you with this fictitious elementary. Well done.