THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE
I spent some 'Times' in 'The Principal's Office'.....fortunately, my parents....dressed to the nines..to establish their credibility....came to School and 'bailed me out', promising that I would 'be a good boy'....My "Crime" was refusing to Pray to "God" or "Pledge Allegiance to the Flag" in Jr. High School..... or sing the National Anthem...."Oh, Say Can You See"...or the, still at that time, "Battle Hymn of The Republic".....The 'Weekly Reader' was removed from the Alabama Public Schools' Libraries and replaced with even more copies of The Holy Bible...... These 'Times' are, even now, are...increasingly....being re-established in many schools of 'red' states.......as part of de-evolutionary curriculums.....as late as 10th Grade, I was 'punished' for Free Thinking...the Enemy of the Righteous Right.......I, still, have nightmares about being beaten with a wooden paddle, held by some 'teacher'....(Mrs. Gateley, whose husband was an evangelist)..holes drilled in it to worsen the pain and suffering that 'comes from disobedience'.......as late as the 1960's, tarring and feathering was taking place and KKK cross-burnings were still happening in the school yards, to intimidate young people into Conformity.....

“Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!" whispered her mother. "We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.” “There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.” “To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp." Nathaniel Hawthorne.....THE SCARLET LETTER (1850)
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