Helen Hegener

At 12:08 AM +0000 8/22/02, [email protected] wrote:
>It's a book, not a movie, and it's definitely Christian, but I am
>reading a book called The Wounded Spirit by Frank Peretti. I'm only
>half way through it, but in the first few chapters he describes
>incredible cruelty that he endured at school. The first chapter
>starts out by talking about these terrible things and it makes you
>think he's describing some type of juvenile prison and then you find
>out he's talking about his school.

Has anyone ever read Charles Dickens' "Hard Times"? It's mostly about
schools in England. Scary stuff if even half of it is based on fact.
Made me wonder how much the way people were treated in those times is
still affecting the values and mores of today.

Helen