{"id":2534,"date":"2024-10-13T18:15:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T18:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/news\/education\/the-ritual-tells-the-story-of-inglewood-educator-tedric-johnson\/"},"modified":"2024-10-13T18:15:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T18:15:40","slug":"the-ritual-tells-the-story-of-inglewood-educator-tedric-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/news\/education\/the-ritual-tells-the-story-of-inglewood-educator-tedric-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Ritual\u201d tells the story of Inglewood educator Tedric Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Through the Schools with a Purpose program, Johnson transformed the lives of Black and Latino high school boys who were &ldquo;deemed as the worst.&rdquo;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-blackowned-los-angeles-standard-newspaper\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Support_Standard_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The L.A. 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T-shirts and sweatshirts.&nbsp;<a href=\"index.php\/shop-black-los-angeles.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/index.php\/shop-black-los-angeles.html<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cfBwb-fLQJ4?si=Vj6rMkAd0beXslUe\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">By Jason Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Spot SoDo Studios has produced a documentary on Inglewood educator Tedric Johnson, who taught Black and Latino boys at Morningside High School who many teachers did not want to deal with.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Through the Schools with a Purpose program, Johnson took students who were considered trouble makers, and many of whom were in gangs, and turned them into positive and successful members of society. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;Mr. J took who California deemed as the worst,&rdquo; said Dominic Banks, owner of The Spot SoDo Studios and a former student of Johnson&rsquo;s.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;I had given up on school.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>My mindset was more of a hustling mindset, and I didn&rsquo;t care.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>The first day that I had walked in Mr. Johnson&rsquo;s class, that brother gave me the &lsquo;Autobiography of Malcolm X,&rsquo; and he told me to read this.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I opened up that book and it changed my life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I turned from being the kid that didn&rsquo;t care to one of the top students in his class.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I made sure to be an example of his program to my other peers.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;Mr. Johnson would call my house if I was not in his class,&rdquo; said Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Robert Hawkins, who is also the president of the Los Angeles City Stentorians African American firefighters association and a former student of Johnson&rsquo;s.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;If I chose to ditch, he would know, and my mother would know.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Because of Mr. Johnson&rsquo;s influence, I didn&rsquo;t want to get on his bad side.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I looked up to him and respected him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I loved him like a fatherly figure.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>It meant everything in the world to me for him to be proud of me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>He was my role model.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>He knew how to talk in business meeting but he also knew the gang culture.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>He knew the big homies from the neighborhood, and he squashed so many beefs in his class.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Johnson was able to connect with the boys in his class because he had their same background.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>He went to school in Inglewood.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>He had a similar upbringing in the same neighborhoods as his students so he could connect with them in ways that other teachers could not.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;I knew the areas in which they came from,&rdquo; Johnson said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;I could speak the jargon.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I could relate to them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I was someone who they could connect with.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I am them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I matriculated through the Inglewood schools.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>To see someone who came back to the community, who was once them, who went to college and graduated, participated in sports, that was something that gravitated them to me and I gravitated to them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>They were able to see someone on a day to day basis who was able to go through the system within Inglewood and come back and be represented in a positive manner.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>As African American males, we see many people that we perceive as being role models, but they are not tangible.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Athletes, entertainers, politicians.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>But how many times do you get to interact with that person on a day-to-day basis where they can provide them with quality time and mentoring?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;It was my job to make sure that these individuals were taught from a perspective that they could understand.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>It was culturally responsive teaching.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>To incorporate from an Afrocentric perspective.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>It was my job to tap into their greatness and instill confidence in them so that they could be successful.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2533\" src=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image6_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image6_web.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image6_web-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption><em><strong>Robert Hawkins and Dominic Banks with their high school teacher Tedric Johnson at Morningside High School during the filming of &ldquo;The Ritual.&rdquo;<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Johnson&rsquo;s program was created by the Los Angeles County Office of Education in 1991 and it ran until 1997.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;The concept was that it was a school within a school model,&rdquo; Johnson said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;The concept arose out of the need to help African American males matriculate through high school, middle school, and elementary.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>The reason why this came about was because the African American male population were being denied a quality education.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>They were suspended and expelled at a higher rate than any other ethnic group and gender.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>One of the main principles was to choose African American men to lead these classes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I was fortunate enough to be chosen.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Johnson believed that it was not the Black males fault that they were not succeeding, but the system and individuals within the system who were not giving them a fair chance.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;Teachers were intimidated by some African American males,&rdquo; Johnson said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;So any specific reason that they could give to eliminate them from the class &mdash; not having a pencil, coming late, not having homework &mdash; they used those excuses to get rid of them from their classes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>So therefore, if they were not in class, it was difficult for them to learn and to matriculate through the system.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>If individuals are given the proper tools and the proper environment for success, they will succeed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Success must be presented to all individuals without obstacles.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Johnson taught the core curriculum of English, math, science, and social studies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Through his class he saw that his students had great improvements in confidence, accountability, respect, and they were getting better grades.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Johnson&rsquo;s mentorship also steered his students away from gangs. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;Ultimately if some of them stayed on the track that they were on, that would lead to either incarceration or an untimely death,&rdquo; Johnson said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;I preached that on a daily basis.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Telling Johnson&rsquo;s story was extremely important to Banks because Johnson changed his life and the lives of many others like him. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;This tells the story of a gentleman who came back to his community in spite of the various gang culture that was going on at that time,&rdquo; Banks said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s also important because of the teachers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>A lot of times teachers are not looked upon or paid financially in the same stipend that we pay athletes or entertainers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>We admire those people.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>But yet there wouldn&rsquo;t be any athlete, entertainer, or politician, without a teacher.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>This is a story of the gentleman who enlightened a lot of us.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>As a society we&rsquo;re failing our youth.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>We&rsquo;re losing kids constantly.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>We have an influx of gangs and weapons.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>We need to go back to the core teaching when teachers cared.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Teachers pretty much raise our kids.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>We send our kids to school for eight hours, and if the teacher isn&rsquo;t right or is going through things, how can our kids listen?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Many films about inner city Black life show a struggle throughout the story, but this documentary focuses on the change that these students made.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;We watched &lsquo;Boyz N the Hood,&rsquo; &lsquo;Menace II Society,&rsquo; and the various Black movies that always end the same way; with a mother crying and somebody dead,&rdquo; Banks said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;Mr. Johnson&rsquo;s story needed to be told because his program was successful and positive.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The documentary features one of Johnson&rsquo;s students who went on to become a scientist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;That brother is an astrophysicist,&rdquo; Banks said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;This was a brother that society had thrown away, that wasn&rsquo;t going to make it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>He meets Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Johnson puts him on the road to success.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>He gives him the confidence that he can be whatever he wants to be.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>As you see the movie, you will see how Mr. Johnson has touched people so that they can be successful in life and in their community.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The environment that Johnson created inspired Hawkins to become a firefighter.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;I learned about the medical terms from his class,&rdquo; Hawkins said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&lsquo;Mandible,&rsquo; &lsquo;phalanges,&rsquo; &lsquo;occipital.&rsquo;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>He brought people to come and talk to us about opportunities.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Johnson&rsquo;s class instilled a confidence in Hawkins that he did not know that he had when he was put back in classes with the rest of the student body. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;When Mr. Johnson mainstreamed me, I still didn&rsquo;t believe in myself,&rdquo; Hawkins said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;It was my senior year, and he told me that I had to go.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>But I was getting on the honor roll for the first time.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I trusted him, and when I was mainstreamed, it worked.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>That&rsquo;s when I started believing in myself.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I could do this on my own as a senior.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>I graduated early by having over credits by being in his class.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The title of the film, &ldquo;The Ritual&rdquo; comes from rituals that Johnson had in his class.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>At the end of each class as each student left, Johnson would stand by the door and shake all of their hands.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Johnson also used a ritual when his students broke rules.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;We had discipline in the class,&rdquo; Hawkins said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;If you came late, or was ditching, you got your name on the board.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>We had this thing called &lsquo;The Ritual.&rsquo;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>We went on the track and you ran miles and then we went into the weight room.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>You didn&rsquo;t want your name on the board because that ritual hurt.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>But everyday we left his class we shook his hand.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&ldquo;The Ritual&rdquo; will come out during Black History Month, and the trailer can be viewed on The Spot SoDo Studios&rsquo; YouTube channel.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>For more information, contact The Spot SoDo Studios at (206) 687-7795 or <a href=\"mailto:thespotdodostudios@gmail.com.\">thespotdodostudios@gmail.com.<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; 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