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 e of how I see things differently than the majority of people in the US.

..... During my sophomore year in high school, I was the only person in my ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) class to receive the academic achievement medal for having the highest G.P.A. Along with the medal, I was also issued a $100 savings bond. This made me feel very special for the first time of my life.

The teacher promoted me from the rank of P.F.C. (private first class) to Ssgt. (staff sergeant), and offered me the position of a platoon leader.

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