During the period when the G.E.E.C. was popular in America, the school was closed, because most kids stayed home taking school lessons on their G.E.E.C. TV. Once, when Marvin White was talking out of turn in his classroom, he had to write "I will not talk out of turn in class" on the blackboard one hundred times with a piece of chalk, but the blackboard shattered from what was believed to be a small tremor.