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2 a, a Rrra OF Tatas Sane ae ee OR eee OF -] lows terching th ppade at = vuslic sehoo) in Bloomington ot this time. JI bed set ont to ereate en tenlang of reform in my alassroom, cut I never succeeded. I. realized pretty. guiekly that I was a fool to think that ontliberal do-goocer teacner could change a system thet nad functioned for decades to turn out beste) workers and contented suvoorters of imperialism. Tf should bave understood the briek wall I ¥e8s ub ageinst becsuse the school A Lor L-ke I taught at was Fee; wae ee the schools I hed gone to as = kid. The administretion and teachers functioned 2: prison war-" dens te program students into robot inaces of their weedy narents and to Keen in check any rebellious {imoulsese nfter four or five months of being pissed orf, frustrated and confused, L said, "fuck this shit." T realized that I vaean't going to make a dent in changing the system as long 48 I tried to tackle it slong and as Long as I politely argued against the copporate ¥iants » their governnent s their schools, their courts, their army and their police rorce to prove that I wes right and they vere “rontle The combined experience of teaching in tie, vublic conmeng my ton Bd Q UTI schoois,and study ing, Marxist-Leninist writings brought me to the point where T 94 clearly treat ofjitalism veg totally coOrrunt thet socialisn offered a more human alternative and that the ruling einrss 2 my this country vas never eoing to give Up 446 pover and yaneeLlully conceds to the neople's aesires for socialism. SRE CRA OLN LEE AEE U RAL THRE TNRR after I finished teachirys sebool in June, 1972, Teko and I moved to the Pay i:@&. - ve wanted ta find ont more abeut on orzonjzntion there ex jled Yenceremos. Cne of the we je thines that ve auc cbout Yencerernos ct ee a tle time vues their ovt-front position on erred gtrucqle. They too 2 streng stiund thet the oply way to ackleve chanyre 7 . has wyre reclis- we es Nite mee wo, eo nae ee