Description: A FILM BY JILLIE SIMON & THOMAS SIMON If you really want to make a difference... you have to step up. An idealistic grade school teacher has a fear of speaking up in public – other than in front of kids.
An idealistic grade school teacher has a fear of speaking up in public – other than in front of kids. But when she finds out that children in her school are going hungry – thanks to federal cutbacks – it compels her to step up and confront her Congressman, in order to help out the children.
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AWARD WINNING Synopsis Anything can happen Allison, an idealistic primary school teacher in Brooklyn, has a fear of speaking in public. When asked to lead a teachers meeting, she shies away from speaking in front of other adults. But when she goes to get her brown bag lunch, she runs into two children from her class who have taken it. Upon questioning, they reluctantly reveal that they both have a negative balance on their accounts so they can’t get lunch and are very hungry. When Allison goes to the lunchr