Word: camped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PARRIS ISLAND, S.C.: He'll always have Parris. Just three days into his Marine boot camp training, Riddick Bowe is dropping out. "It was just that he couldn't handle the regimented training lifestyle," said Master Sgt. Chuck Demar. "He's been released at his own request." Demar said one of Bowe's family members picked him up and they left the island at 12:40 p.m. Although a recruit can ask to be dismissed at any time, the first days of Marine boot camp are hardly the most grueling even though they begin at 5:30 a.m. and involve...
Brad was an extremely dynamic and original child, and he was also frequently punished. Outbursts of imagination were as common as outbursts of antisocial behavior, and Brad quickly became a marked man in the eyes of the counselors. Repeated infractions eventually led to Brad's removal from camp, a decision to which I was virtually alone in protesting...
...child, Brad was suffering from manifold problems at camp, many of which were as much due to nurture as to nature. He has been on Ritalin since age four, and has no recollection of a time when he was an individual apart from his disorder and his medication. When Brad's parents were notified of his misbehavior, they decided to increase the amount of medication he received...
...major known side effects of Ritalin, it makes sense to me in retrospect that Brad was frequently up until one and two in the morning with his Walkman and his drawings. He developed heavy black circles under his eyes within days. Because the two main meals of the camp, lunch and dinner, were served when Brad's Ritalin was working at peak potential, he had no appetite whatsoever for these meals, and he subsisted mainly on the many snack foods which he hoarded in his bedroom...
...wish that Brad had been given a more fair chance by my fellow counselors. He had two strikes against him going in as an ADHD kid, and he certainly didn't make a very strong case for himself. But was kicking him out of camp the most productive solution? I struggle to see a scenario in which...