The Seattle Times – Claudia Rowe
“For years, Franky Price terrified his teachers. As a third-grader, he pantomimed killing other students by sliding his finger across his throat. In fourth grade, he swore at anyone who angered him. The worst moment came one month into fifth grade, after Franky wrote down his violent fantasies. He never planned to act on any of them, but the behavior alarmed educators enough to get him suspended from the Clover Park School District, then expelled from Tillicum — placing him among the thousands of children statewide who are removed annually from elementary-school classrooms. To Franky, the punishments barely registered. Raised in a family of drug users and dealers, he wandered with them from one dingy apartment to the next. Often, there was no bed to sleep on and nothing but plastic covering the windows.”(more)