Principal Served Surprise of his Life!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2022
- The Change Reaction (TCR) is a non-profit in LA that empowers community heroes to give more to the people they serve. TCR told us about Dana Hammond, an amazing Principal from LA who started his own charter school, Academy of Media Arts, that serves underserved students in the community where he's from. They wanted to celebrate/surprise him and we knew we had to share this uplifting and inspiring story, which turned into our BIGGEST SURPRISE EVER.
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The important thing here is not to wish for more people like Dana, but for us to figure out how to shape our own lives to be more like him.
Totally!
The world needs more Dana's, Gregs, and Jodis. Thank you all for investing in your community and kids!
Yep. 💯
I held it together pretty good until dad walked up.....after that I was a bucket of tears.
That’s the part that gets me every time I watch it. - Brent
I don’t know him but I see the goodness in Mr. Dana’s face! God bless him! Thank you to everyone who recognized and honored this wonderful man. He deserves all of the love because he gives so much of it!!!
Damn that brought on the feels! What a deserving man!
I been at my lowest in life recently. I really needed to see this. Gives me hope
Hang in there. You’re going to get through this.
Hold on this hope dear. Hope you get through this time soon🌻
It’s amazing how something like this can pick you up. I’m where you are. I get it. ❤️
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lol like you know him.
Cried like a baby! We need more people like him in this world. More people to believe in struggling youth in all communities!! You are an angel Dana!!
These people support the same people that cause young folks to struggle. The same oppressors who want to force young kids into jobs like McDonald’s and Wendy’s to work till they’re shriveled up like raisins.
We Need More Man Like Mr Dana in this World May God Bless Him and Keep him.
For sure.
This is the world should be doing. Instead of being bully, appreciate people who are working hard to makes a difference in others. God bless those who strive to make a better world for everyone to live in peace.
Absolutely. Well said.
It baffles me how this channel doesn't have more views and subscribers. They do so much good. I cry every time.
Appreciate that!
It’s kinda fake from what I see. Doesn’t show the truth inside these people and masks over the video with cheery music.
This is truly remarkable! We need more of this instead of all the negative things we deal with on a daily basis
Glad you liked this!
This video is unbelievable! I’ve cried each time I watch it. We need to recognize more people like Dana!! They are all out there and are the lifeline of our cities!
Happy tears are the best.
You are not alone 😭
We don't hear enough about these kind of beautiful human beings. Love this story.
Omg... All the anger in the world has been getting me down lately, I'm so glad i found y'alls channel. Y'all got me uplifted and bawlin lol. Thanks for your great work!
You are so welcome! Glad u found us.
Totally needed to see this today! So awesome!
So good it found you when it did! Thanks for watching.
Dana!!!! I am so proud of you and so grateful to know you. Because of your crazy-curiosity-meets-ACTION-personality… our paths crossed just as you have crossed so many kids’ paths. You are a role model for Keanen and me. We are ALL better for knowing you. Stay strong. We lift you up! We love you, sir~
What a wonderful guy the world needs more like him
Oh man, this one got to me! To be a man who believes in children’s futures… he deserves everything.
Such a great day! Thanks for watching.
I had an awesome HS principal as well. He encouraged his students to do our best. Unfortunately, he died from cancer the summer after I graduated. You never showed he was sick and suffering. Strong, kind, loving, and invested in the future of his kids. I've been blessed to know him.
Dana...what a dude with a big heart!..
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Hey Is Awesome President And Loving Man. And That’s Why Those Kid’s Love Him So Much. ❤❤❤
Yes they do! Thanks for watching.
So heartwarming . Things like this give me faith in humanity
I've always admired people who get up everyday, and try to make somebody else's life better. It takes an unselfish mindset, to do that. I'm not saying every human being is automatically selfish. It's just that some people seem to see themselves, in everyone. And if you love yourself, it's a lot easier to love everyone else.
us too!
@@OfficialDUDEbenice It's unanimous.👍
This is absolutely Beautiful! God is Good!💜💜💜
It is my goal to go to this school and hug this man
Do it! Film it and share it with us. Just don’t scare Dana. Lol
So cool!!! This world needs more people like him.
100 percent.
Wow, the world needs more people like you, what an amazing inspirational person Dana is and so are all the students he teaches. Thank you also to Greg & Jodi.
Thanks for the kind words!
@@OfficialDUDEbenice I am surprised your channel doesn't have more subscribers ... we need more content like this in the world to give us the faith in humanity :) Thank you!! :)
Oh my goodness!!!! After the guy said so beautifully to him that his mother is looking down at him, then he says, “Oh! Who is that man coming through?” FMe I lost it so bad!!!!!
Congratulations to you sir!!! I think the 3 blind mice (keeping it safe without offending anyone at all) can even see how damn loved and appreciated you are to the whole community!!!
I already bloody love you myself and I don’t even know you!!! Stay true and stay strong for yourself, your family and everything that you believe in.
Sending my love and best wishes to you from a state far away from you called Victoria, Australia.
You touched my heart so much. xxx
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I’m crying like a baby!!! Why is there more like this out here; I feels sooo good to see this! Can you imagine? Having this feeling daily! I can !
Humanity at it’s best!❤
Well said.
Omg😭😭😭😭😭😭 I'm speechless and crying like a baby
We feel ya! Thanks for watching.
Thank you God for stories and examples like this...
Thanks for watching!
This was so heart warming. You deserved the world Sir, thank you for what you do.
All my love, Lynn-jane from England 🇬🇧 ♥️
Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for watching!
Dana this service doesn't just matter. It's essentail to bring a community that has been known for being so down to highest levels it can reach. With people like him it can be the opposite of what Crenshaw and Inglewood have been known for. And it starts with the up and coming generations. Good work sir.
Great love from Pakistan 🇵🇰
Appreciate it! Much love from the US.
People like Dana makes me think that no matter What there's still hope for humankind.
That is the most dad-looking dad I’ve ever seen.
Wow. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. Tears of JOY!!
He has my vote!
I cried a year ago when I 1st saw this and it didn't fail to get me teary eyed this time as well ❤
Proofs in the pudding folks. Every single life matters. Just look what you can accomplish with it. 👏
That was beautiful man great thing for a great person
What a truly inspirational story, man and community. Hats off to Mr. Hammond and Mr. and Mrs. Perlman.
Truly love
The great love and quality of education he has provided for them all in learning and in developing their character for life ; He’s A Real Hero in Life
this is so cool and inspiring. Am so happy for Dana and his students, God bless their hearts.
The ending. You all were excited to get some free tacos but did know y’all were getting scholarships too😂😭 amazing
Glad you caught that lol...we thought it was funny, too.
Many layers of awesomeness here! 👍😎
The universe is blessing me right now. I'm ready. Thank you
We agree!
I needed this SO much today !! Loved and shared. I see a man who prayed sacrificed and believed! GO DANA!
Glad it found you when it did!
This dude is a good person 😢 dreaming of a owning a school to set young adults on to a path
He's an inspiration, for sure.
I'm cry-smiling right now! That was completely awesome and that guy Dana is a living legend! Respect! DUDE BE NICE: I LOVE YOU GUYS!
Thanks for the kinds words - yes he is!
❤Love, kindness, respect and honour🎉. We do NOT need to hate and look down on each other. We are a beautiful mix of people🙏🏾🇹🇹🙌🏽❣
Y’all change lives. Thank you 🙏🏼
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Seeing how proud Jason is to lead the drum line at 7:17 had me bawling!
So good!
This is awesome! This Guy is incredible as well as Jodie and Greg. I bless God for people like them. May them continue to be a blessing for their communities. And thank you very Much for sharing and contribute to honour Dana during his life. That's really important and nice🎉
Thanks for the kind words.
If reap what you sow was a person. It would be him 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
100%
I love this! Dana deserves this surprise & I'm so happy for the kids too! 🥺😍
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Amazing what all these people did for this man who gives his all to support his community❤
We agree! Thanks for watching.
Tears, Beautiful. Thank you 🙏❤️💪
Wow, thank you!
Kind people really deserve all the best! 😭❤️
Just mind-blowingly awesome wonderful!! Congratulations to Mr. Dana Brown, the teachers and the AMA graduating students.
People has told me that I should be a teacher because kids ask me to because I want better for the community. A foundation is definitely in my future. As many as I can help I will. And I started with anyone who has crossed my path
I absolutely _love_ his goal of making the _school_ the starting point for the kids future careers. That's what the whole _point_ of schools was supposed to be from the beginning. It was never meant to be _just_ teaching the basics of reading, writing and math. Or getting the proper grades to get into the right college. School is supposed to prepare you to be _ready_ for the wider world by the time you leave, and they simply don't do that any more. Not even _close_ to it. And it's something I think most have sadly lost and forgotten along the way and no longer appreciate. It's like having a rail network, but the depot where the trains are supposed to leave from in the morning don't have rails connecting them to the goods yard to pick up their loads, or the first train stop in the route. The depot is early school life. The goods yard is College with the first stop after being University, or even potentially an actual career. Far too much emphasis is placed on Colleges and Universities to be the places where the workers of tomorrow are supposed to launch their careers from, and this completely fails to take into account the fact that the train that is these kids lives can become massively derailed long before they even reach that point. There's a reason why most gangs and violent criminals are either teenagers or in their early twenties, rather than older people. It's not people who's lives have gone off the rails later on after trying - it's people who's lives went off the rails before their train even got up to speed out of the depot. You look at most successful people in the world and a _huge_ number of them became what they are because their early school life inspired them to be somebody. They discovered their passions in life much earlier on than the world will acknowledge. And this Principal has figured all this out and is doing his utmost to change it and bring schooling back to what it was meant to be - the true vision of school. And I have endless amounts of respect and awe for him for doing this.
Well said. Thanks for the good words
@@OfficialDUDEbenice What's stupid, is that it wasn't always like this. Once upon a time, schools were hugely invested in by the companies and businesses of the day. Not just financial investment, but time and teachings and other resources. Carpenter companies would send carpenters into schools to inspire future generations to become carpenters, and helped them by starting the whole networking process with businesses, giving them the right contacts when they left and the base level of skills needed to start down that career path. The same was true of countless other career paths. And you'd find that those that did this, ended up with essentially employees for life. And not just because they had "no other alternatives but to work there" - but because they actually _enjoyed_ the work and was passionate about it and wouldn't dream of doing anything different. And for some reason I cannot fathom, all that seemed to stop. And instead it was now down to the Governments and ruling systems of the day to now completely support the schools and finance them and get the blame when things started to go downhill. The companies all left, and nobody held them to account. People today _still_ aren't having a go at the companies for not doing more to support schools and hold them up on their shoulders. It shouldn't be left to Governments to pick up the pieces, it's not their job, it was never _meant_ to be their job. The future of our kids is _everyone's_ responsibility - especially that of the worlds companies who's _entire futures_ DEPEND on these kids becoming future employees and managers and CEOs. Their futures and by extension the futures of our countries is entirely reliant on this, and yet they're not lifting a finger to insure this future happens. And then wondering why staying in business is such a struggle these days. And nobody is making a fuss about it. And it's being left to individuals like this amazing Principal to do all the work in trying to change an entire faulty system.
Brooo, there’s onions in this video! So deserving and May Dana continue his mission and successes. What a beautiful story. Those children are blessed.
So glad you enjoyed this. Thanks for watching!
We need so much more of this. It is sad that we don't and even sadder that when we do they turn into taxable events. We ought to reward kindness while not punishing the recepients of said kindness especially if they are being rewarded for their own acts of making their communities, state, Nation, and world a better place.
I am continuously inspired by the extreme acts of kindness and gratitude I see here
We agree.
Carina I may or may not got some dust in my eye at 5:47
It’s okay.
Crying like a baby ❤
We like happy tears!
Awesome....happy tears 😪👏🏽😪👏🏽😪👏🏽😪😪😪😪
Glad you enjoyed it
excited to watch
Hope it brought you some happy tears.
This made me cry a lot been a such a low spot in my life attempted to end several times just as recent as 2 months ago but I look up to this with the power to push on and make a difference
There's no doubt you're here for a reason and the world needs you. Hang in there and I can't wait to see how you impact others when you come out the other end of these hard times. And you can always dial 988 and confidentially speak with someone. - Brent
school wasn't for me and i think i felt the same way about school like most of the kids in the video. i wish i had an option to go to a school which help kids find out what they wanna do after school. amazing man and id bet my money this school is gonna only get bigger and better and pushing out amazing men and women to the real world after school.
We shared this with Dana and it was super encouraging. Thanks!
So happy to be a part of so much joy.
Whew! I'm at my desk with tears falling on my desk. This is what a good human looks like; all his sacrifices and belief in himself, those kids and his community should definitely be recognized and appreciated....much love. Sir!
Wow, thank you
This is awesome ! Much love from Cincinnati, Ohio ❤
Thanks so much for watching!
What a beautiful man!!!
We agree!
Glad you guys are back doing this stuff!
Fantastic
Glad you like it!
They vids just keep getting better and better!! Keep it up you amazing humans
I was not prepared for that paiting
That was awesome!!!!
This was so awesome!
New Subscriber & this content, well that's why I became a Subscriber 😉 Here's praying GOD'S continued Blessings upon You All 😇
Thanks so much for the sub. We won’t let you down.
Such motivation May God elevate you Dana and all your supporters your students Dad The couple who paid of the school loan the personal gift of 30thousand dollars and those supporting students with scholarships and everyone else I ddnt mention.God bless you all in Jesus Name.from SA
Need more role models like this.
💯 Well said.
Awesome and inspiring indeed!
started following 3 years ago and these vids always remind me why i did. amazing job everybody
Thanks for the love and glad you enjoyed!
Yesssss! We were super excited to be here! So proud of you Dana
Glad you were able to be a part of this special day!
tears are rolling down my face...this is so wonderful.
Happy tears are our specialty. Thanks for watching!
Well deserved! What a great story
Thanks for the love!
The Power of One multiplies
Yes!
This was a very nice and touching video. Dana seems like a man who worked hard (despite ups and downs) to get to where he is today. As a result, he was greatly rewarded. Thank you for making and sharing this video.
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So nice to see this, certainly we need more videos like this, so refreshing! thank you, Mr. Dana, thank your Official dude. be nice!
Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed!
love this video - just amazing what this man is doing.
Couldn't agree more!
Just incredible!! 👏
Thanks for watching and all of the love!
That's a life changing moments🙃🙏
Absolutely.
Man that was awesome!!!❤❤❤
Glad you liked it!!
Beautiful ❤
Thank you! 😊
Who's cutting onions here?
Sorry!
Wow!!!! 😭😭😭😭 this is beautiful
Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for liking and watching!
What a awesome guy
Incredible! Most under-rated channel on TH-cam
Wow, thanks!
10:44 wow!! This video is so empowering… thanks Dana for making a difference in so many lives 🥰
So glad you watched!