JOURNAL: How do you think Jeanette felt to be put in the class for children who struggled in school? Why did her new principal put her in that class?
SUMMARY:
Rose Mary, Rex, Lori, Jeanette, Brian, and Maureen were driving from Phoenix, Arizona to Welch, Kentucky. In Welch, they meet their Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle Stanley. They realize soon that their father’s family is not how they had wanted and that they were almost worse than their father.
Rose Mary and Rex brought them around Welch to show them the history of the town. The town had seemed run down and also could have influenced why her father acted the way he did. Her mother enrolled Jeanette and Brian into the elementary school where they were told that they had disabilities because they spoke faster than the western accented principal. In the class, she had tried to show she didn’t have a disability but the teacher and class made fun of her, they even physically hurt her.
On the first day at her new school, it was a rainy, dreary day. During her class which was "English for students with learning disabilities," a question was asked by the teacher and Jeanette didn't agree with the said question, so she didn't raise her hand. This then prompted the teacher to mock her defense on why she didn't agree in front of the class and say Phoenix like "'Feeeeenix'". After being humiliated by her teacher, Miss Caparossi, the girl behind Jeanette poked her between the shoulder blades with a sharp pencil, only to beat her up after school.
Jeanette was threatened and beaten up because the other students thought that she was trying to be better than them. This was due to her mother telling her that she should try to be better than them. Jeanette's bullies pushed her onto the ground, in the rain and mud and started to kick her to their heart's content.
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