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“Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card” (9 p.m., HBO):

Monday, June 23, 2008

“Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card” (9 p.m., HBO): “Hard Times at Douglass High” is a sobering new documentary that focuses on an inner-city Baltimore school where the brutal inequalities of American minority education are on full display. The filmmakers spent a year interviewing faculty and students.

“Heavy Load: The U.K.’s Only Disabled Punk Band” (9 p.m., IFC): “We like to take a classic song and crucify it,” says Mick, guitarist in the British punk rock group Heavy Load. Witness their versions of “I Fought the Law” and “Wild Thing.” But this band isn’t just a latter-day reply to the Ramones. Three of the five members have learning disabilities. Michael, the drummer, has Down syndrome, and for 19 years he has lived in a social services group home. They originally got together just for fun. But can Heavy Load make a play for the mainstream, and even record an album? Shot over a span of two years, “Heavy Load: The U.K.’s Only Disabled Punk Band” is described by its filmmaker, Jerry Rothwell, as “a comedy driven by a set of charismatic characters, each with their own conflicting dreams.”

“I Love the New Millennium” (9 p.m., VH1): Low-rise jeans, crocs and trucker hats ... how can we forget? We’re still living it.