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In 6th grade I had a female teacher call me out for scratching a poison ivy infection on my genitals (we have to hold it when urinating). She looked straight at me and said "some people are animals!"
I should note how bad of a person she was. This was the 1960s and integration was being implemented. We got the first two black students to attend our school that year, a brother and sister.
The girl was in my class and on her first day this teacher chose to read a passage from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. While staring at this frightened black girl, much as she stared at me when calling me an animal, she read about Jim the n........ and how n.....s smell.
Comment by FutureCosmonaut at 23/02/2025 at 04:10 UTC
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I apologize, I'm very late to the discussion, but can you please elaborate on holding poison ivy while using the bathroom? I understand this was a while ago (1960s), was this a typical thing to do during that era? I'm much younger so I've never heard of this but I'm curious. Thanks.