L. MMBETTI 3 She just - the adjustment was very difficult with all these teachers. It?s just that she didn?t work properly but when she came to the basic studies group I she blossomed like she I think Cleo wanted attention and wanted love. And I think that was the main thing and see, Ruth would be like a big sister because she's young and I was like the grandmother image because I'm older. I see. And we get along so beautifully together. Uhehuh. And we can work with the children in this manner. All right. Now, you said Cleo was different. How do you mean different? well, I think because of her heritage,her background, because she wasn?t Caucasian like the rest of the children and I think see the children can be cruel. Right. And when.you're in a group like of 150 children, you're bound to have some children who maybe who will tease, who will make fun, et cetera, but with us she only had he to cope with, and 20 really in her own class which made it much better for her to cope with.this situation. Now I understand that Cleo was suspended recently from school. Can you give me the circumstances inrolving the suspension? Well, it seems that during the lunch, the lunch period, during her lunch period, there are some, some girls in the school who are sort of a little bit hard and so forth and they?ve done this before; this has happened before. They?ve brought those little airplane bottles in with liquor. DIE?huh And.one time they brought a can of soda that it was filled. They had it open but it was filled with liquor, whether it was beer or what it was and she seemed to be drawn to these couple of girls that are causing this problem. Now, Cleo, instead of sitting with her, with the girls in her class, these girls would call her over to sit with them and then they would ask her like to carry this bottle to another table or whatever. And Cleo would do this and if naturally she would get caught, now, they