Word: bastrop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accept the physical and emotional brutalization of children as a matter of course. Children kill because their spirits have been killed. LYNN WEISS Bastrop, Texas...
...euphemism is "alternative education setting," but "solitary confinement" would be more accurate. For more than six weeks, school officials in Bastrop, Texas, have sentenced eight-year-old Zachariah Toungate to a 10-ft. by 13-ft. isolation room all day. His crime? Refusal to cut his 7- in. ponytail. Zach is taught by substitute teachers but is banned from his gym classes and from eating in the cafeteria. He says he has nightmares that the walls of the classroom will close in and crush...