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...euphemism is "alternative education setting," but "solitary confinement" would be more accurate. For more than six weeks, school officials in Bastrop, Texas, have sentenced eight-year-old Zachariah Toungate to a 10-ft. by 13-ft. isolation room all day. His crime? Refusal to cut his 7- in. ponytail. Zach is taught by substitute teachers but is banned from his gym classes and from eating in the cafeteria. He says he has nightmares that the walls of the classroom will close in and crush...
...Zachariah--Inn Square...
...Zachariah--Jonathan Swift...
...Zachariah? No, that won't do at all. I'll call you Jack...
...part of Rogosin. Come Back, Africa makes the strongest anti-apartheid statement I have ever seen by letting the horrors of South Africa speak for themselves. For example, the footage of men going to work in the gold mines, or the panoramic shots of the township in which Zachariah finally settles, are memorable. One wonders how the bombed-out townships look today if they looked so god-awful...