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We missed a lot of the excitement from last night, but we did have some excitement of our own. When we finished showers and were going to our tent, we clearly heard the moans (what many people described as demonic sounding moans) coming from a big, mouthy student being restrained face down about 20 yards from our tent.

Most of my kids have been restrained somewhere along the line in their time of state custody and the sound of this very tormented soul crying out in pain, deep anger, and anguish awakened those memories for them.

To make matters worse, the two staff restraining him are white and the student is black (and very dark skinned) so a couple of my black students let that feed into their negative, racist thoughts, as if the kid was totally innocent and the whities were torturing him or something. I had a heck of a time getting those thoughts out of their head long enough to get them to bed.

I don't know if it was excitement over that or just that I had too much coffee, but I don't think I slept for more than 30 minutes last night. I'm zonking out and need to take a nap.