Re: Why I am 100 percent against schools for the blind
hard to explain but people didn't dare fight back, at least at the school I was at. most students were there from a very early age and figured that was just the way schools are. kids become very institutionalised in places like that and arguing against the rules or even wondering why they exist just doesn't cross their minds.
I did get in to a lot of trouble for questioning things and weirdly, there was no physical punishment so you'd think nothing to be scared of. it was kind of drilled in to you that you were there because you needed to be and that the teachers, house staff etc were all powerful. I can remember being dragged before the head mistress on more than one ocation and shaking like a leeff although I've no idea what I was actually scared of. she was a nun by the way. how could anybody be scared of a nun? ask that to a lot of people that went to catholic schools, especially blind schools or orphanages. they can be bitter and crule but that's not for this topic really.
I did eventually get really annoyed after being yelled at for something totally stupid that I don't even remember now and asked if I could see this famous book of rules they kept telling me I was breaking. they didn't have one. or if they did they sure as hell weren't going to show me it. at least prisoners get a rule book to tell them what they can and can't do rather than people in charge making them up on the spot if they're annoyed with you.
another of their favourite lines was to tell you, you're lucky to be here. we look after you and help you to learn. no other school will do that for you because you're blind. I seriously did get told that many times and I believed them. at the time in the 80's they were probably rite.
at this particular school as well, they had a rule that residential pupils must get changed under a dressing gown. they said it was to stop children looking at each other. interesting rule for a blind school don't you think? I think it was more to cover themselves so that staff couldn't purve at the kids which shows how much they trusted the people that worked there.
anhyway, I could go on and on on this subject but I only started out to answer a question that was meant for dark so i'll shut up now.
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