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Neng

BACKGROUND
Sex: male
Born in: LongCheng, Laos
Parents born in: Laos

When I was six years old, I went to school in Thailand, and the teachers there hit students on the head with their rulers. I got hit on the head a couple times when I was called on to recite a poem to my class and I couldn't remember the lines of the poem. The teachers also checked students' finger nails every six to eight weeks, and if students forgot to cut their finger nails, the teachers would ask the students to hold their fingers together. The teachers then hit the students' finger nails with their 36 inches ruler. This hurt a lot. Most of the time the students' finger nails would turn blue for a week, and they couldn't write. The teachers in Thailand were authorized to use these brutal tortures against their students. In Thailand, school was a place of torturing students instead of educating them.

When I arrived in the US, I was ten years old so my parents enrolled me in the 4th grade. I saw that school was built for education students instead of torturing them. This is my personal experience of how I see things differently than the majority of people in the US.


..... In my senior year, I took a political science course at Mesa College, and the professor there gave the class a writing assignment every week. I knew that my writing was bad, but I couldn't help it. I felt left out because I thought the class was too hard and too much writing for me to handle.

On my first assignment, the professor embarrassed me by calling my name out loud in front of the class and told me that if I was a marine and he was my commanding officer he would throw me out of the classroom window because I couldn't write a five page essay. The other students in the class were looking at me, and I felt embarrassed so I walked out for that day, but I didn't quit. I came back and finished the course even though I knew that the professor hate me.

I wish my teachers had taught me how to write better.

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