I remember as a new student (Elan School-Poland Springs, Me.), I was
crying when I was told to
scrub a garbage can as a punishment for something so minor that I can’t even remember the cause. I has stopped cleaning it, and that was when the staff determined that I has to be restrained and dragged to “the corner”, isolation in a room to the point when
one barely feels human. I tried to fight back, as any normal person would do when one is touched and forcefully grabbed without consent. Instead of
just bringing me to the corner, the staff had other students hold me up, my hands and
feet restrained, as other students were forced to scream and degrade me.