424 Accelerate, Chad #school #ability #cars a hook in your fender cinder block soaring past smb get this thing off my back put your foot on the gas real hard rope snaps in two derive some perverse joy out of Ving You just leave us behind at will. Chad: I believe I am very bright and could benefit from learning thusly at an ack... [0:05 - 0:12] (The word "Accelerated" appears on screen as Chad struggles with it.) - Accelerated. Chad: "Ackselerated" - Ac-cele-rated. Chad: "Arrelicated?" Ac-cele-rated. [0:13 - 0:14] (The camera cuts to a woman, Carol, standing behind a young boy with glasses.) [0:15 - 0:18] (Chad smiles faintly.) Okay. [0:19 - 0:21] Do you like race cars, Chad? [0:22 - 0:23] Yeah? Okay. [0:24 - 0:27] (Chad looks down, then up with intensity.) [0:28 - 0:31] Let's say you're in a racecar. All right, here you don't need that. [0:32 - 0:33] (Carol and the boy look on. A computer screen with Russian text is visible.) [0:34 - 0:40] You're in a racecar. First place at the Indy 500 with, with all the sponsorships in the world. [0:41 - 0:45] (Carol puts her hand on the boy's shoulder.) The wind is in your hair and you're feeling just great, and all of a sudden, you feel this thing behind you [0:46 - 0:50] (Chad turns and walks towards a bookshelf, gesturing wildly.) and you look into the mirror, right. [0:51 - 0:59] And there's this hook. There's a hook in your fender dug in real good, and it's connected to a... A long metal rope and at the end of that rope is, well, it's a massive five-ton cinder block. [1:00 - 1:01] (Carol looks concerned.) Okay, Chad? All right? [1:02 - 1:04] So your job is driving. You're Dale Earnhardt [1:05 - 1:09] and here's this cinder block, and all the other cars are soaring past you and you've gone from first to last place [1:10 - 1:12] and you keep thinking to yourself, "What the hell do I have to do to get this thing off my back?" [1:13 - 1:18] Well, I'll tell you, Chad. It's real simple. You just put your foot on the gas real hard [1:19 - 1:22] (The boy watches intently.) and you accelerate, you accelerate so fast that rope snaps in two, the cinder block explodes. [1:23 - 1:26] and just say it with me, Chad. Accelerate. Accelerate. Accelerate. [1:27 - 1:28] Chad: Accelerate? Yes. [1:29 - 1:31] (Chad smiles triumphantly.) Carol: Okay. Yes. [1:32 - 1:35] Carol: What, what is your problem, huh? [1:36 - 1:38] My problem? [1:39 - 1:40] My problem is you. [1:41 - 1:46] Carol, it's, it's, it's the people who who trot their poor children out like racehorses at Belmont. [1:47 - 1:49] (Carol looks shocked.) - Excuse me? - Who derive some perverse joy [1:50 - 1:51] out of treating us like low-level service reps. [1:52 - 1:57] Carol: Okay... I mean, do you remember the teachers who sat with you, who held you by the hand, who taught you to add. Carol: No. [1:58 - 2:02] And subtract, or showed you Gatsby. Salinger for the first time. Mockingbird, even. [2:03 - 2:04] Do, do their names escape you? [2:05 - 2:06] - Are their faces a blur? - God damn it, okay, to me! [2:07 - 2:08] No, you listen to me! [2:09 - 2:12] You don't wanna see us as people because that is not convenient for you. [2:13 - 2:16] You just leave us behind at will. [2:17 - 2:18] Never think about us again. [2:19 - 2:21] All right, you might forget, but we don't. [2:22 - 2:24] We never forget, ever. [2:25 - 2:27] (Chad stares silently.) [2:28 - 2:29] Chad: What's wrong with him? [2:30 - 2:33] Carol: You know what, I don't know. I don't think anything's wrong. We're gonna get some food [2:34 - 2:35] and we're gonna go home, okay? [2:36 - 2:37] Chad: Mm-hmm. Carol: All right. [2:38 - 2:40] (Carol walks towards the door, turning back to look at Chad.) You should be ashamed of yourself.