Richard Gregory Research Paper

Seven year old, Richard Gregory, had an unfortunate childhood. He learned the words “hate” and “shame” not from home, but at school. After enduring public humiliation in his classroom from his teacher, he realized that he was ashamed of being poor, fatherless, and perceived as “stupid”. Gregory’s experiences during his childhood affected his view of the world by developing ongoing feelings of shame toward everything he did and everywhere he went; not just in the classroom. “I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that” (289). Richard Gregory experienced some of the most hurtful feelings in his classroom at school in front of his classmates and the love of his life, Helene Tucker. His first encounter with these feelings were presented to him by his teacher. She saw Gregory as “stupid” because he was restless

They struggled daily to just put dinner on the table to feed Kayla and her four younger siblings. One day, while in Mrs. Daniels math class, Kayla’s name was called over the intercom throughout the entire school announcing that she was to report to the office immediately because there was an emergency. Everyone in the classroom stared at Kayla as she frantically ran to the office. After that day, we hadn’t seen her in over a week. Until one day, there was a special education teacher walking around to every classroom handing out a piece of paper to every student. Come to find out, Kayla’s house burnt to the ground that day she was called to the office. The paper that was handed to me read, “Unfortunate family in need of clothes and food”. I had talked to Kayla a few weeks after the incident, when she told me that not only was she not in school because they were moving into a shelter home, but because of how embarrassed she was that someone was passing out those papers to every student without her family’s