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East of Salinas: Jose Does His Homework
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary East of Salinas, third-grader Jose, who is an expert at math, finishes his homework before he can do anything else for the evening. His grades are important to him because he desperately wants to make the fourth grade so he can go on a promised field trip to the beach, where he's never been.
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