- Moctesuma Esparza: Boycott the schools?
- Paula Crisostomo: Yes!
- Harry Gamboa: That's not a good idea!
- Moctesuma Esparza: Oh it isn't?
- Harry Gamboa: No! You wanna know why? Because they don't give a *shit* if these kids go to school or not!
- Moctesuma Esparza: Actually, they do! ADA - Average Daily Attendance!
- Paula Crisostomo: They don't get paid if we don't go to school!
- Paula Crisostomo: It's like the Montgomery bus boycott!
- [chatter amongst the group]
- Paula Crisostomo: It's like Montgomery! You know Dr. King got everybody to boycott buses, right?
- Vickie Castro: Yeah! And sessions and boycotting - great!
- Tanya Mount: But this about schools, okay?
- Paula Crisostomo: So, let's boycott!
- David Sanchez: The schools?
- Paula Crisostomo: Why not?
- Harry Gamboa: That's completely different!
- Paula Crisostomo: No, it's not! It's exactly the same. We get treated like second class citizens!
- Tanya Mount: Guys, are we talking about buses here or what?
- Paula Crisostomo: Guys, our schools are the back of the bus!
- Moctesuma Esparza: Boycott the schools?
- Paula Crisostomo: Yes!
- Harry Gamboa: That's not a good idea!
- Moctesuma Esparza: Oh it isn't?
- Harry Gamboa: No! You wanna know why?
- Paula Crisostomo: Hey, how'd it go?
- Bobby Verdugo: This is what they told me: " You have a big future ahead of you."
- Paula Crisostomo: That's good!
- Bobby Verdugo: In the art world.
- Yoli Rios: Yeah, industrial arts.
- Bobby Verdugo: Yeah, nice way to say car mechanic.
- Yoli Rios: He told me secretary. There's no nice way to say that.
- Paula Crisostomo: Well, didn't he offer junior college?
- Paula Crisostomo: The police know who we are, they know what we're up to. That's why they closed down our pina... Somebody here's talking to them.
- Moctesuma Esparza: On behalf of all the outside agitators in this room, I'd like to send a special message to the informant... Que viva la raza!
- [All]
- Moctesuma Esparza: Que viva la raza!
- Bobby Verdugo: [filling out questionnaire] Do you think you're going to graduate? pffft - Hell no!
- Paula Crisostomo: Why not?
- Bobby Verdugo: Not. Why not?
- Paula Crisostomo: I'm serious Bobby.
- Bobby Verdugo: What is the point.