The setting: Ms. Jessica Zeller’s English II class, host to Mr. Tony Scully’s Monologue Workshop. That would be me, a small presence in a much larger universe of intersecting and overlapping young lives at The Continuous Learning Center (CLC) located at the former Jackson School on Campbell Street. For reasons unknown, the teenage students, often more gifted than their mainstream counterparts, have stepped outside socially acceptable boundaries, only to find themselves in this restrictive environment.