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I can legit say that lemmings helped me get through a rough patch in my childhood. Playing the Atari ST version on a machine a teacher brought in from her hous
by com2kid 1y ago
I can legit say that lemmings helped me get through a rough patch in my childhood.
Playing the Atari ST version on a machine a teacher brought in from her house is a core memory. Sadly the other kid I played with didn't have such a happy outcome later in life, but I can say that a large part of my moral compass comes from the time I spent in an at risk school program watching troubled kids get discarded by the world. Thankfully I had a loving family to go back home to, but most of my classmates did not.
Then the district shut down a successful early intervention program for the most vulnerable of children. I wish nothing but ill will and suffering upon those who made that particular "fiscally responsible" decision.
I remember how sad the teachers and therapists looked, being forced to throw kids back unprepared into a school system that had already failed them. Even us kids could see how wrong everything about the closure was.