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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: could injure me in character and degrade their occupation more than
allowing me (much less forcing me) to remain in the school under such
conditions. But in order to get expelled, it was necessary commit a
crime of such atrocity that the parents of other boys would have
threatened to remove their sons sooner than allow them to be
schoolfellows with the delinquent. I can remember only one case in
which such a penalty was threatened; and in that case the culprit, a
boarder, had kissed a housemaid, or possibly, being a handsome youth,
been kissed by her. She did not kiss me; and nobody ever dreamt of
expelling me. The truth was, a boy meant just so much a year to the
institution. That was why he was kept there against his will. That
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