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The book actually opens with an account of that very incident, and then goes onto track Jack's progress throughout primary and high school. The tale, though having occasional glimpses of happiness, ultimately ends with a boy struck down by depression and nearly homicidal with rage at his attackers.
The only criticism that I could make of the book is to say that, while documented without remarkable detail the many problems of conventional schooling, it fails to provide a solution to the many problems.
Jack ackknowledges many of his own faults, and how teachers ultimately went about solving these faults in the wrong way, but fails to say what SHOULD have been done. Or what should be done in the future? The prospect of alternative schooling is raised, but needed to be discussed in future detail I felt.
Otherwise, it was an absorbing read, well worth the time and highly reccommended.
Ryan.