[Clemenza]

When I was a kid in Nassau County, NY, all the teacher would do to shut some of us "good kids" up is tell us that we would be sent to "BOCES." BOCES, of course, was our "alternative school, who students would largely go on to Sing Sing following their first year of freedom after graduation.

[summer]

But, Clemenza, the difference now is that many of these kids have friends in the equivalent of BOCES, and telling them they might go there too is a meaningless threat. It is often difficult to say or do something that would instill some fear in these kids to shape up. If the parent is on your side, that helps a lot -- but in too many cases, the parent is not.