Schoolchildren on the Rioting
These are the words of my kindergarten student, Luis Murguia, who turned 6 on April 30. He attends Sixty-first Street School near Slauson and Figueroa. He dictated these sentences to me and drew a picture for his part of a class project dealing with the riots. I edited out two other sentences from the middle of his dictation. Otherwise, this is the original work of a talented young author-illustrator.
The lights blew out on my birthday.
People set stores and houses on fire on my birthday.
Somebody broke in the stores.
Somebody robbed the stores.
I ate some ice cream and birthday cake
and I had some balloons.
I couldn’t have my party.
Friends couldn’t come over.
It was dark.
TODD SHORACK
Los Angeles
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