Tag: spring park elementary school
member name: Roger Kiser
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September 22, 2007 10:59 PM EDT --
"It's hard for me to learn. There's something wrong with me inside my head. That's what they say to me at the orphanage," I told Mrs. Dryer, the school Principal.
I will never forget . . .
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June 10, 2008 09:17 PM EDT --
My short story titled "THE BULLY" was made into a short film by Edward Asner and producer/director Nicholas Delfino.
It was very unusal to see one work on film. One day just a memory and . . .
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September 04, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
I was thirteen years old when I watched the Donna reed show for the first time. I had been living in the Children's Home Society Orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida for almost seven years.
I had no . . .
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June 09, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
As this is the anniversary of my orphan brother Davids death; I thought I would repost this story
"SISSY-BOYS"
As we kids left the dining room at the orphanage, my friend David . . .
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March 15, 2008 09:53 PM EDT --
I don't know what made November 20th 1950 any different from any other day. Just because it was my forth birthday was no big deal. There were no parties or gifts given us kids for any special occasion . . .
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June 05, 2008 10:32 AM EDT --
I realize as responsible adults we must watch what we say, especially when children and grandchildren are in the area.
I am probably one of the most impatient men living on the face of this earth or . . .
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September 19, 2007 05:13 PM EDT --
I guess I was eight or nine years old when I went to the beach for the very first time.
Living in an orphanage we kids never got to do much of anything, especially any of the fun things that other children . . .
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May 01, 2008 07:45 AM EDT --
It was "May Day." All the children from the Spring Park Elementary School had gathered on the school grounds for the May Day Maypole dance.
This dance involves many short flagpoles, with . . .
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August 21, 2007 01:49 PM EDT --
"There will be a Valentines Day party on Thursday," said Mrs. Horner.
I dreaded hearing the words as I sat there, quietly staring at my fourth grade teacher.
I believe it was sometime in 1955 . . .
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October 04, 2007 09:28 PM EDT --
Life in the Children's Home Society Orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida was not an easy life at all. Actually, Army life was, to some extent, much easier than was my life in the orphanage. In the Army; . . .
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March 16, 2008 03:00 PM EDT --
"You are never to cross this paved sidewalk. In fact, you are never to step foot on this sidewalk, ever. This is the most important rule we have here at this facility. Do you understand me?" . . .
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May 25, 2008 04:53 PM EDT --
"You ever put me in that position again and I'll cut your damn throat. Do you understand that young man?" screamed Mother Winters, the head matron of the Children's Home Society, located . . .
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May 16, 2008 11:33 AM EDT --
The manner in which our country has turned, I can fully understand why many children today are leery of policemen, the court system and those in power and positions of authority.
It is those same negative . . .
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May 16, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
If there was ever a time when I, as a child, felt totally worthless because of the actions of an adult, it would have to be when I stood before Mother Winters, the head matron of the Children's Home . . .
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May 18, 2008 01:56 PM EDT --
Having been raised my entire childhood in The Children's Home Society, located in Jacksonville, Florida; we children were not reared to become loving individuals. Love was not part of the orphanage . . .
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August 16, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
Well, many of my gather friends suggested that I take ten days to think things over before deciding to close our home child advocate's office. The individual who flagged my article, advising people . . .
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August 21, 2007 01:25 PM EDT --
"Kiser, what are you doing in here?" asked the orphanage matron.
I just sat not knowing what to say to her. No one was allowed to be in the library, except while they were doing their homework. . . .
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September 09, 2007 02:47 PM EDT --
"It is called a verb you idiot! Can't you understand anything at all?" yelled the teacher standing in front of the classroom.
I lowered my head, and wished I could just disappear and never . . .
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November 09, 2007 09:34 PM EST --
After I was released from the Florida School for Boys at Marianna (reform school), I was locked up in the juvenile hall for months. I refused to ever return to the Children's Home Society. I was not . . .
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July 09, 2007 05:34 PM EDT --
"I have had a lot of dumb kids in my classroom over the years, but you take the cake, Roger Dean Kiser," said the teacher as she slapped the small ruler across her hand.
I had no idea what I . . .
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