No, I don't think so, not on a lunch hour. Now they may have taken our
recess from us, but our lunch hour? You've been in school all day, and
they're not going to let you go to lunch? No. That's against the law.
No. I really don't think any other teachers to my knowledge, I haven't
heard of any cases, but I can imagine that it is. Even with the kids in
elementary school, they will tell you, "I couldn't go out to play
because I misbehaved." But no, you go to lunch, even if you go to lunch
and they separate you, put you at a different table. They're going to
let you eat your lunch. But a kid in high school and you're going to
tell them, "You've got to go on your lunch hour because the equipment is
not available?" No mam. It will never happen, not in this household, not
if I know about it because you will see me on the news. I've got
grandchildren in school now, and Lord have mercy. They'd better not
mistreat them because I will die. That's just like me telling my
children, and I'd be kidding when I said this, "Okay. You're not allowed
to whip them but I can because you don't know how." It's just something
about grands.
Some things are better, I think, in the schools. One reason is, I guess,
because there's been so much publicity about it. But it will do all
right for a while, then it flares up again, so what does that tell you?
Are we making progress or are we not? I don't feel like we're moving too
far ahead now. I don't. I feel like the only things that they have
really done is because they were forced to integrate. Forced to
integrate. I feel like if it had been done by the people ourselves
instead of the law making us do it, it probably would have been better
if the people had carried it out. But when you start forcing people to
do things, now you know how that is. Because if somebody forces us to do
something, hey, I'm not going to do it because
they're forcing me to do it, or I'm not going to do my best. I'm just
doing it because they made me do it, just show that I'm putting forth
some effort.