CBS Schoolbreak Special (TV Series)

Hear Me Cry (1984)

Carmen Zapata: Mrs. Battaglia

Quotes 

• Mrs. Battaglia : Excuse me, are you writing about this for a newspaper?

  Mary Lou Hanson : Yes, Mary Lou Hanson with the Daily Star, are you are?

  Mrs. Battaglia : Grace Battaglia. Head of the English department here. Do us all a favor, huh?

  Mary Lou Hanson : If I can.

  Mrs. Battaglia : Don't romanticize this. Suicide may be tragic but it is *not* romantic. A boy we all cared about killed himself because nobody heard him cry, not in time anyway, and that is *not* romantic, it's stupid, and wasteful, and selfish. Look, it's very important that we start telling the truth *now*, when David Goldman went over that hill in his car, he wasn't going off to Never-Neverland, his bones were broken, his blood was spilled, he *hurt* down there, until he died. You want to write this story, you put that in.