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In "Indian Education" Victor was Native American. Growing up he lived on an Indian reservation. You would think that those kids would be nice to each other since they were all mostly the same race. If you thought that then you were wrong because they were so mean to the him, they broke his glasses and beat him up. Another big problem for him was the teachers. For example, one teacher made him hold books for ten minutes, gave him extra recess detention, gave him a harder test than everyone else, and when he got 100% the teacher got even madder. When he was in high school he passed out because of his diabetes but the teacher said, "What has that boy been drinking? I know all about these Indian kids. They start drinking real young." Just because
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