What school did for me was put me in the same type of oppressive situation, but in a more bourgeois sense, so I’d be able to get a half-assed job after I graduated, supporting the system. But in fact I wouldn’t be able to get a job, because the record I had was tremendous. I was so oppressed I couldn’t even see that I’d never be able to teach, I’d never be able to go through school and teach high school students or children or adults or anybody because of my criminal record. But all I was concerned with at the time was getting that diploma because that made me a part of the system, could make
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