I grew up in the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. It was not easy to grow up there during the late 1950's early '60's. Moose Jaw was a very biased town. I find it amusing to recollect that Moose Jaw christened itself "the friendly city..."it was anything but. I attended Ross Elementary School. We lived on the east side of Moose Jaw which was considered the "wrong side of the tracks," and there was a great deal of bullying done by peers to one another, by those children that fed off the prejudices drilled into their minds by their intolerant parents who planted the idea in their kid's head that anyone living east of Hall Street and Wolfe Avenue were trash. So laughable, after all, they all were living on the East Side of Moose Jaw. Even the teachers had these ideas and were very cruel to any student they did not like, for this reason or that, and the awful thing was it was tolerated by the Principles and other teachers. They could single you out and make you to feel like an ass in front of the whole class who would twitter with laughter, egged on by the "teacher." I remember this one bitch that taught school at Ross: Ms. Reiky. She hated me for some reason, one being that I was left handed and she would make me get up in front of the whole class and make fun of me, saying (she always used your last name) "Hammond was too dumb to know her right hand from her left when learning to write " and would encourage all the children to laugh at me. She called me "stupid" in math and would tell me, "why can't you be smart in math like your sisters." I ended up going home and practicing writing with my right hand and the next time she made me get up in front of the class I put the chalk in my right hand and produced a beautiful right - handed note. The bitches' jaw dropped. T0oshe!