"The schools, at which formal education was limited, forcibly and systematically stripped Indigenous children of their culture by removing them from their families and communities" - indoctrination https://t.co/Kbzb0LCilE
“It was a manor house, and there were only 52 girls. But that first night, you’re in a room with ten girls you’ve never met, in metal beds with tweed blankets over the top, and it’s lights out at seven. It’s traumatic, it’s completely traumatic.” https://t.co/05sAiWqa8G
I’m adding another character to the canon this year at the Edinburgh Fringe - a toxic ex-public schoolboy called ‘Fudgey’, who has a midlife crisis brought on by boarding school trauma.
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That was becoming disruptive for her because she was not able to adjust to her boarding school. Saturday, she would wait for me to arrive, and then on Sunday, I would stay with her. And all week, the teacher told me, ‘Stop coming. You can’t come’”.
“I don’t know, was I a mean mother? I still regret it. I still cry over it. It was very hard for me, too...But the thing was, every Saturday, I would leave my work and take a train and come to visit her every Saturday.... https://t.co/Xk2Nuce3cO
France 1871 - Founder of the Ecole Alsacienne: "no more boarding schools, no more barracks, the child’s natural faculties must be developed"
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Author Anthony Horowitz says parents sending their youngsters to private schools are 'destroying their children' after his own experience there did 'incalculable damage' to him https://t.co/D05omh7qBl