The Blackboard Jungle

days spent beating back the seeds of doubt

Friday, May 28, 2004

Ex student in the newspaper.
Chisoba has been convicted of raping children by threatening them with a hammer.

Sigh.

I *know* I meet ex students who are law students, who have families, who thank me for helping them get to college, all the time. But it would be nice just for a change, not to recognise the twelve year old beneath the face of the guy with the blanket, the police van, and the press corps following.