I want to tell you a story. It's the story of my deepest core memory. A story of a single day in the 1980s education system, and how it failed a little boy. This is the story of Julian. [Thread (a long one)]
I want to tell you a story. It's the story of my deepest core memory. A story of a single day in the 1980s education system, and how it failed a little boy. This is the story of Julian. [Thread (a long one)]
I'd like to say we were all nicer to Julian after this, but we were kids. I moved away a couple years later, but I ran into an old friend who told me about him being diagnosed as autistic and dyslexic in high school. I hope Julian is doing well. I really do.
She threw the pizza in the trash right in front of him, making sure she opened the boxes and poured it out into the can so Julian could see it. He was crying so hard it sounded like screaming.
There was a bunch of Pizza left over, so one of the teachers started piling the boxes on top of each other, and started walking toward Julian...and the garbage.
The movie was turned on, the pizza was served. None to Julian, of course. We sat there and ate pizza and watched a full length feature animated film with the sound of Julian's non-stop wailing.
The teacher brought his desk to the corner of the room right in front of the trash cans. She slammed it down facing away from the TV so he would be looking directly at the garbage and nothing else.
A loud scraping sound coming from the hallway getting closer and closer. Then we see it. Julian dragging a chair behind him, and the other second grade teacher with a kids desk lifted up over her head.
The day of the party rolls around, and we all pile into the cafeteria where a big screen tv is set up. We're told they're going to be showing the movie "The Land Before Time". We all take our seats, and then we hear it...
In front of the entire class our teacher announced that Julian would remain in the principal's office for the duration of the party. I remembered feeling her deserved what he was getting
The end of the year came up fast, and there was a surprise announcement. We were having the party. The school decided that we shouldn't all be punished because ONE child didn't participate. We were all super pumped
