This incident brings me back to my days in the Austin public school system. For stealing food (I was neglected and starved, but nobody asked.) I was put into the ACT program, where they made me do all my class work in a small white cubicle, made me do huge stacks of the same 1st grade worksheets if I turned my head or dared speak a word. If I didn't finish my homework and the worksheets, they could keep me after school till 12am if they wanted. They had the right to restrain me if we tried to leave. After school hours they got really crazy and tried to make us slip up so we would have to stay. Eventually I just stopped going to school. They banned this program a few years ago. I also got suspended for wearing a Dead Kennedy's T-shirt. The candy incident is totally typical of that system and it is more serious and damaging to the child than some people on here would think.
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This incident brings me back to my days in the Austin public school system. For stealing food (I was neglected and starved, but nobody asked.) I was put into the ACT program, where they made me do all my class work in a small white cubicle, made me do huge stacks of the same 1st grade worksheets if I turned my head or dared speak a word. If I didn't finish my homework and the worksheets, they could keep me after school till 12am if they wanted. They had the right to restrain me if we tried to leave. After school hours they got really crazy and tried to make us slip up so we would have to stay. Eventually I just stopped going to school. They banned this program a few years ago. I also got suspended for wearing a Dead Kennedy's T-shirt. The candy incident is totally typical of that system and it is more serious and damaging to the child than some people on here would think.