Ken E Haney:  

questions that challenged the "official" version being taught and although the teacher and I were in accord, the fact that she was black in a newly in-acted Federally mandated integration program, it was a remedy that worked well for not only us, but for the S.E. teacher (also a newly enacted Federal program) as a break period for her had not been provided. It was also the year I received my second and last corporal punishment. Coach Newton, the same, recognized me in a group of students, some of whom were smoking, gave me a choice between swats and ratting out the others in the group. After taking the punishment and realizing I was being punished for not ratting, I looked him in the eye and declared that if he ever hit me again I would retaliate. Anyone who knows or knew my brother Tony, will know it was not an idle threat. Height's Rats live by their word. You can take the boy out of the Heights, but you can't take the Heights out of the boy. The Viet-Nam War was spilling into my living room every night on the 6 o'clock news and scenes of police repression of Anti-War demonstrations stirred echoes of memories of the suppression of Civil Rights Demonstrations in the early to mid sixties. Knowing I would soon be drafted and sent to die in Nam really set my priorities for the following years. If you've got down this far I'm at KenE at wildblue.net