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Remarks: Joe Biden Tours an Elementary School in Philadelphia - March 11, 2022

  • Joe Biden
    Person
  • Unidentified
    Person
  • Coco Allred
    Person
  • Miguel Cardona
    Person
  • Amanda Jones
    Person
  • Wilma Hernandez
    Person
  • Jim Kenney
    Person

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:00:00-00:00:00 ( sec)
"My next is [Inaudible]" 1

Miguel Cardona

Neutral
00:00:00-00:00:04 (5 sec)
"Do we have an extra seat for the president?" 2

Unidentified

Positive
00:00:04-00:00:06 (1 sec)
"Yes, sir. [Inaudible]" 3

Unidentified

Positive
00:00:06-00:00:07 (2 sec)
"Yes, sir. [Inaudible]" 4

Miguel Cardona

Neutral
00:00:07-00:00:07 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]" 5

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:00:07-00:00:09 (2 sec)
"[Inaudible] you guys are doing?" 6

Unidentified

Positive
00:00:09-00:00:09 ( sec)
"Good." 7

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:00:09-00:00:11 (1 sec)
"What's your name?" 8

Unidentified

Neutral
00:00:11-00:00:12 (1 sec)
"Marquito." 9

Unidentified

Neutral
00:00:12-00:00:12 (1 sec)
"Carlos." 10

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:00:12-00:00:15 (3 sec)
"Carlos. How about you?" 11

Unidentified

Neutral
00:00:15-00:00:16 (2 sec)
"Pedro." 12

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:00:16-00:00:18 (2 sec)
"Hey, Pedro." 13

Unidentified

Neutral
00:00:18-00:00:19 (1 sec)
"Tiannis." 14

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:00:19-00:00:22 (3 sec)
"Tiannis, what a lovely name." 15

Unidentified

Neutral
00:00:22-00:00:22 (1 sec)
"Maria." 16

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:00:22-00:00:26 (4 sec)
"Hi, Maria. How are you?" 17

Unidentified

Positive
00:00:26-00:00:27 (1 sec)
"Good." 18

Unidentified

Neutral
00:00:27-00:00:28 (1 sec)
"Saffron." 19

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:00:28-00:00:30 (2 sec)
"Yeah, good to see you." 20

Unidentified

Neutral
00:00:30-00:00:31 (1 sec)
"Mads." 21

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:00:31-00:00:32 (2 sec)
"What a beautiful dress." 22

Unidentified

Somewhat Positive
00:00:32-00:00:34 (1 sec)
"Thank you." 23

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:00:34-00:00:35 (1 sec)
"Oh, [Inaudible] hi." 24

Coco Allred

Neutral
00:00:35-00:00:36 (1 sec)
"Hi." 25

Joe Biden

Somewhat Positive
00:00:36-00:00:39 (3 sec)
"And you're in this grade as well, huh? Here to teach?" 26

Coco Allred

Slightly Positive
00:00:39-00:00:42 (3 sec)
"Yeah. I'm Ms. Allred [Inaudible]" 27

Joe Biden

Positive
00:00:42-00:00:49 (7 sec)
"Good to see this. Well, tell me about what you're doing." 28

Unidentified

Somewhat Positive
00:00:49-00:00:52 (2 sec)
"We were just writing things like letters [Inaudible]" 29

Unidentified

Somewhat Positive
00:00:52-00:00:54 (2 sec)
"It's something like --" 30

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:00:54-00:00:56 (3 sec)
"I can see that. You guys are really, really good." 31

Amanda Jones

Neutral
00:00:56-00:00:56 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]" 32

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:00:56-00:00:58 (2 sec)
"Are you learning how to read?" 33

Unidentified

Very Positive
00:00:58-00:00:59 (1 sec)
"Yeah, yeah." 34

Unidentified

Leans Positive
00:00:59-00:01:00 (1 sec)
"It's not bad." 35

Unidentified

Leans Positive
00:01:00-00:01:03 (3 sec)
"It's not bad. We're in sixth grade, and they're another grade [Inaudible]" 36

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:01:03-00:01:03 ( sec)
"Oh." 37

Unidentified

Neutral
00:01:03-00:01:04 (1 sec)
"They're under grade." 38

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:01:04-00:01:05 (1 sec)
"You're the old guy." 39

Miguel Cardona

Slightly Positive
00:01:05-00:01:06 (1 sec)
"Yeah." 40

Amanda Jones

Very Positive
00:01:06-00:01:34 (28 sec)
"I was surprised that you even saw our students that have benefited from the American Rescue plans participating in after-school funds in regards to art and reading intervention. So, we're so thankful for all those funds and how they've helped support our students here at Marin. This is Coco Allred. She's one of our artists here at corps, and she directly supports our students with the art samples too." 41

Amanda Jones

Slightly Positive
00:01:34-00:01:40 (6 sec)
"She runs about four to five student clubs for our students that have been helping with their mental health and their education." 42

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:01:40-00:01:45 (5 sec)
"Right [Inaudible] Tell me about the program, the art program." 43

Coco Allred

Positive
00:01:45-00:02:07 (22 sec)
"So -- so, as a teaching artist, I get to sort of work into the school in a lot of different ways. So, I teach arts integration lessons. So, I meet with students like Maria in second grade, and we do two lessons a month one night next to what they're learning in science or social studies, and then another one around social and emotional learning." 44

Coco Allred

Neutral
00:02:07-00:02:21 (13 sec)
"And then, I also run the design classes but [Inaudible] to my students. And then I co-teach some clubs with other teachers at the school. So, some for art and then the design club." 45

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:02:21-00:02:28 (7 sec)
"What you're doing -- and right here [Inaudible]" 46

Coco Allred

Neutral
00:02:28-00:02:29 (1 sec)
"Some of it." 47

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:02:29-00:02:53 (24 sec)
"What do you -- what do you notice most? Well, I mean, this would -- we were looking good, man. I got a sport coat like that but don't have that shirt. [Inaudible] shirt. So, tell me what you've seen and what we're [Inaudible] what kind of a [Inaudible]" 48

Coco Allred

Very Positive
00:02:53-00:03:22 (29 sec)
"Yeah. I think the most rewarding part is just seeing their creative confidence grow. And I've had students that have gone from kind of partly speaking in class to volunteering to -- to share their work with parts of my club, which is in group clubs, you know, fourth or eighth graders. And so, to see a fourth grader take up this initiative and share their work and then request feedback and just to get involved." 49

Coco Allred

Somewhat Negative
00:03:22-00:03:28 (5 sec)
"And I think design, to me, is really linked to student leadership, and it's critical thinking." 50

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:03:28-00:03:35 (7 sec)
"What do you like best about this class? It is fun? What do you like?" 51

Unidentified

Very Positive
00:03:35-00:03:35 (1 sec)
"It's fun." 52

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:03:35-00:03:38 (2 sec)
"It's fun. That's a good start." 53

Unidentified

Neutral
00:03:38-00:03:39 (1 sec)
"All right." 54

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:03:39-00:03:41 (2 sec)
"What do you like best?" 55

Unidentified

Neutral
00:03:41-00:03:42 (1 sec)
"Art." 56

Joe Biden

Positive
00:03:42-00:03:45 (2 sec)
"What kind of art? You like to draw?" 57

Unidentified

Somewhat Positive
00:03:45-00:03:45 (1 sec)
"I like painting." 58

Coco Allred

Neutral
00:03:45-00:03:46 ( sec)
"Painting." 59

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:03:46-00:03:50 (4 sec)
"You like painting, oh, wow. Maybe we can paint on it." 60

Unidentified

Neutral
00:03:50-00:03:51 (1 sec)
"Can you?" 61

Unidentified

Neutral
00:03:51-00:03:51 (1 sec)
"All right. [Inaudible]" 62

Coco Allred

Very Positive
00:03:51-00:04:01 (9 sec)
"That's the great thing about being an artist, you know, it doesn't happen just [Inaudible]" 63

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:04:01-00:04:03 (2 sec)
"That's right, it doesn't." 64

Amanda Jones

Neutral
00:04:03-00:04:07 (4 sec)
"Tiannis, want to tell Mr. President about something from the art club?" 65

Unidentified

Very Positive
00:04:07-00:04:11 (4 sec)
"I like playing basketball. So, I brought that into art." 66

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:04:11-00:04:12 (1 sec)
"And did you really?" 67

Unidentified

Slightly Positive
00:04:12-00:04:13 ( sec)
"Yeah." 68

Joe Biden

Somewhat Positive
00:04:13-00:04:19 (6 sec)
"Or drawing basketball, like basketball scenes, the hoop, and all I can think of." 69

Unidentified

Very Positive
00:04:19-00:04:26 (6 sec)
"Like, how you learn things in basketball, you can also learn things, like, take that and teach people about it --" 70

Miguel Cardona

Neutral
00:04:26-00:04:26 (1 sec)
"Hmm." 71

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:04:26-00:04:26 ( sec)
"It's pretty good." 72

Unidentified

Neutral
00:04:26-00:04:28 (1 sec)
"Through art." 73

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:04:28-00:04:31 (3 sec)
"It's pretty good. And how about you, honey?" 74

Unidentified

Very Positive
00:04:31-00:04:43 (12 sec)
"I think art, too, because I -- you can just write down and/or paint now with feelings about how -- how you are doing right now. And you can -- you can [Inaudible] even paint what you -- who are your dreams, like that." 75

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:04:43-00:04:46 (3 sec)
"Well, I'll be darned. Impressive." 76

Miguel Cardona

Very Positive
00:04:46-00:04:53 (7 sec)
"This gentleman wants to share something too. Do you want to share something? Nice and loud, OK? I'll say it for you." 77

Unidentified

Neutral
00:04:53-00:04:54 (1 sec)
"Hello, 203." 78

Unidentified

Neutral
00:04:54-00:04:55 (1 sec)
"Hi." 79

Unidentified

Neutral
00:04:55-00:04:55 ( sec)
"Let me see [Inaudible]" 80

Unidentified

Positive
00:04:55-00:05:00 (5 sec)
"Say, "Good morning, Mr. President."" 81

Joe Biden

Positive
00:05:00-00:05:01 (1 sec)
"Good morning [Inaudible]" 82

Unidentified

Neutral
00:05:01-00:05:07 (5 sec)
"Hi, Mr. President." 83

Unidentified

Neutral
00:05:07-00:05:07 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]" 84

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:05:07-00:05:17 (10 sec)
"She brags. Hi." 85

Unidentified

Neutral
00:05:17-00:05:19 (1 sec)
"Hi." 86

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:05:19-00:05:30 (11 sec)
"Good to see you all. My goodness. You know this guy here? He runs the whole country's education system." 87

Unidentified

Very Positive
00:05:30-00:05:30 (1 sec)
"Wow." 88

Joe Biden

Slightly Positive
00:05:30-00:05:31 ( sec)
"Yeah." 89

Miguel Cardona

Negative
00:05:31-00:05:53 (22 sec)
"And this -- Mr. President asked me to say something to you. [In Spanish] I want to tell you that I am Puerto Rican, and my grandparents came to Puerto Rico, very poor. They had nothing, they sacrificed, they studied, and paid for it. But I went to school, the first to college, because of the sacrifices of my grandparents." 90

Miguel Cardona

Neutral
00:05:53-00:05:57 (4 sec)
"And now I am the secretary of Education and work for the president. You can do it, too." 91

Unidentified

Neutral
00:05:57-00:05:58 (1 sec)
"Mmm hmm." 92

Miguel Cardona

Very Positive
00:05:58-00:06:09 (11 sec)
"[In Spanish] You can be president. Continue with your studies, and continue speaking in Spanish and English, OK? Bicultural and bilingual as well. OK? [In Spanish] Si?" 93

Unidentified

Neutral
00:06:09-00:06:10 (1 sec)
"Si." 94

Miguel Cardona

Neutral
00:06:10-00:06:10 ( sec)
"[Inaudible] too?" 95

Unidentified

Neutral
00:06:10-00:06:10 ( sec)
"Si." 96

Miguel Cardona

Neutral
00:06:10-00:06:11 (1 sec)
"[In Spanish] Of course. [Applause]" 97

Unidentified

Neutral
00:06:11-00:06:11 ( sec)
"[Inaudible, in Spanish]" 98

Amanda Jones

Very Positive
00:06:11-00:06:19 (8 sec)
"Do you want to do your welcome for Mr. President? Go ahead, Jace." 99

Unidentified

Neutral
00:06:19-00:06:19 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]" 100

Amanda Jones

Neutral
00:06:19-00:06:19 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]" 101

Unidentified

Somewhat Positive
00:06:19-00:06:26 (7 sec)
"[Inaudible] energy and don't be nervous. I got you, baby." 102

Miguel Cardona

Very Positive
00:06:26-00:06:28 (2 sec)
"Awesome [Inaudible]" 103

Unidentified

Neutral
00:06:28-00:06:28 ( sec)
"Hi." 104

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:06:28-00:06:29 (1 sec)
"Hi, how are you?" 105

Unidentified

Very Positive
00:06:29-00:06:37 (8 sec)
"Good afternoon, Mr. President. I'm [Inaudible] and I'm for -- from Omiras and proud to meet you." 106

Joe Biden

Positive
00:06:37-00:06:38 (1 sec)
"I'm proud to meet you." 107

Unidentified

Very Positive
00:06:38-00:06:51 (13 sec)
"Welcome to our beautiful classroom where we believe that we are change makers and that anything is possible if you're [Inaudible] [Inaudible] This is from my gym teacher, Mr. Hernandez. He wanted to [Inaudible] his mask on [Inaudible]" 108

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:06:51-00:06:52 (1 sec)
"I know. That's [Inaudible]" 109

Miguel Cardona

Very Positive
00:06:52-00:06:53 ( sec)
"Excellent. [Applause]" 110

Amanda Jones

Neutral
00:06:53-00:06:53 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]" 111

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:06:53-00:06:54 (1 sec)
"Well, thank you, thank you." 112

Amanda Jones

Very Positive
00:06:54-00:06:59 (4 sec)
"Mr. President, this is our fabulous third grade teacher, Mrs. Hernandez. She's been [Inaudible]" 113

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:06:59-00:06:59 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]" 114

Amanda Jones

Neutral
00:06:59-00:06:59 ( sec)
"Years." 115

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:06:59-00:07:00 (1 sec)
"How are you? [Inaudible]" 116

Wilma Hernandez

Very Positive
00:07:00-00:07:02 (2 sec)
"Good, good. Thank you for coming to this school." 117

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:07:02-00:07:04 (2 sec)
"Well, I'm delighted to be here." 118

Wilma Hernandez

Neutral
00:07:04-00:07:05 (1 sec)
"And I want to --" 119

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:07:05-00:07:05 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]" 120

Wilma Hernandez

Very Positive
00:07:05-00:07:25 (20 sec)
"Oh, my goodness. And I want to thank in behalf our community and my community because I live here and I grew up in this community, and we were supporting you so much and we're rooting for you, and we love you." 121

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:07:25-00:07:29 (4 sec)
"Well, thank you [Inaudible] [Applause]" 122

Wilma Hernandez

Somewhat Positive
00:07:29-00:07:35 (5 sec)
"Thank you for coming." 123

Joe Biden

Leans Positive
00:07:35-00:08:14 (39 sec)
"Where is the mayor? There is the [Inaudible] you know what the mayor talks to me all the time about? This community. No, I'm serious. And I -- you know, if we -- I come to Philadelphia a lot. My wife is from Philadelphia and my daughter lives in Philadelphia, and I [Inaudible] Philadelphians. But I tell you what, every time I talk to this guy, he talks about what more can we do and help the kids in Philadelphia." 124

Jim Kenney

Slightly Positive
00:08:14-00:08:14 ( sec)
"Yeah." 125

Joe Biden

Somewhat Positive
00:08:14-00:08:17 (3 sec)
"For real Thank you, Mr. Mayor." 126

Amanda Jones

Somewhat Positive
00:08:17-00:08:19 (2 sec)
"Thank you so much." 127

Unidentified

Slightly Positive
00:08:19-00:08:20 ( sec)
"Yeah. [Applause]" 128

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:08:20-00:08:39 (19 sec)
"I'm going to sit here instead of blocking anybody's view in the back there. So, I tell you what you what, you guys are amazing. I love your dresses you [Inaudible] hey, you guys want to ask me any questions? Yes." 129

Unidentified

Very Positive
00:08:39-00:08:52 (13 sec)
"Thank you for -- well, this is my first time seeing you and I'm happy because I came to see you. I never saw you. You never talked to me. And this is my first thanks for you." 130

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:08:52-00:08:57 (5 sec)
"Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, honey?" 131

Unidentified

Very Positive
00:08:57-00:09:13 (16 sec)
"Well, I want to say thank you for -- to you for let us -- letting us go back to school because in computer, it was hard to learn about stuff. And in person, we can see our friends and hug them, and we can learn more in person." 132

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:09:13-00:09:16 (3 sec)
"Makes a big difference being in school than on a computer, doesn't it [Inaudible]" 133

Unidentified

Positive
00:09:16-00:09:17 (1 sec)
"Yes." 134

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:09:17-00:09:18 (1 sec)
"What's your name [Inaudible]" 135

Unidentified

Neutral
00:09:18-00:09:18 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]" 136

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:09:18-00:09:28 (10 sec)
"Well, good to meet you. How old are you?" 137

Unidentified

Neutral
00:09:28-00:09:29 (1 sec)
"I'm nine." 138

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:09:29-00:09:38 (9 sec)
"Oh [Inaudible] [Applause] Well, thank you so very, very much. You're very good. I tell you what, how old are you?" 139

Unidentified

Neutral
00:09:38-00:09:38 (1 sec)
"Nine." 140

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:09:38-00:09:44 (5 sec)
"Nine years old. Well, one thing I want you girls to remember, no serious guys till your 30s. [Inaudible]" 141

Amanda Jones

Neutral
00:09:44-00:09:44 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]" 142

Unidentified

Neutral
00:09:44-00:09:47 (3 sec)
"My sister, she's 12 years old." 143

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:09:47-00:09:47 (1 sec)
"She's 12 years old?" 144

Unidentified

Neutral
00:09:47-00:09:52 (5 sec)
"Her name is Maynari." 145

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:09:52-00:09:55 (3 sec)
"Maynari, that's a beautiful name." 146

Unidentified

Neutral
00:09:55-00:09:58 (3 sec)
"And I have a little brother that's four years old." 147

Joe Biden

Positive
00:09:58-00:09:58 ( sec)
"And cute?" 148

Unidentified

Positive
00:09:58-00:09:59 (1 sec)
"Definitely." 149

Joe Biden

Positive
00:09:59-00:10:01 (2 sec)
"Oh, good. What's his name?" 150

Unidentified

Neutral
00:10:01-00:10:02 (1 sec)
"Noah." 151

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:10:02-00:10:03 (1 sec)
"Noah." 152

Unidentified

Neutral
00:10:03-00:10:04 (1 sec)
"Right." 153

Unidentified

Slightly Positive
00:10:04-00:10:13 (9 sec)
"Well, I'll be darned. [Inaudible] of me. Do you have any question to ask me? You don't have to." 154

Unidentified

Neutral
00:10:13-00:10:13 ( sec)
"[Inaudible]" 155

Joe Biden

Very Positive
00:10:13-00:10:36 (23 sec)
"I got it. [Inaudible] my little sister. But guess why? My little sister is my best friend in the whole world. She takes care of me all the time [Inaudible] child, she's been on my handlebars [Inaudible]. But she's smarter than I am, better looking than I am, just everything. But she always helps me. So, your brother is lucky to have a big sister." 156

Unidentified

Leans Positive
00:10:36-00:10:38 (3 sec)
"Yeah, but he always is taking my stuff." 157

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:10:38-00:10:42 (4 sec)
"[Inaudible] work that out." 158

Unidentified

Neutral
00:10:42-00:10:45 (3 sec)
"He ate my donuts." 159

Joe Biden

Neutral
00:10:45-00:10:51 (7 sec)
"He ate your donuts? I'll ask you to [Inaudible] [Ends while in progress]" 160