Media/Arts

The Bad Kids

From filmmakers Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe, The Bad Kids is about the children at school you avoided, or felt bad for, or made fun of or just didn't understand. 

At a high school in the middle of the Mojave desert, educators and administrator believe that empathy, life skills, and the constancy of a caring adult are the differences that will give at-risk students command of their fates. Principal Vonda Viland will wake up at the crack of dawn to give any student a ride to school. 

The Bad Kids follows Vonda and her "bad kids" Joey, Jennifer, and Lee, who wrestle with traumatic odds like abuse, addiction, homelessness and teen parenthood.
The film asserts that America's most pressing education problem is poverty, and follows it up with an emotional, immersive, and insightful look into the 
least fortunate kids in high school. 

—Indiewire.com