Yo Teach!

This upcoming sitcom from NBC really touched a nerve for me. Growing up in an urban, all black school, my own life was turned around when a unconventional teacher came in and taught us that learning is fun and that rap is just another form of poetry. Just like Dangerous Minds or Freedom Writers or Stand and Deliver or Lean on Me or To Sir, With Love or Blackboard Jungle or High School High.

When an inspiring teacher enters students’ lives, it has an effect like no other. Like Robin Williams in Dead Poet’s Society. So inspiring, one of his students killed himself.

And I’m not being funny people when I say this sitcom made me weep. I pray it does the same for you.

(click to watch after the jump)