Related to my last post, I witnessed many other children suffer permanent damage in that school and nearby ones. Many parents have their children crying everyday before school, begging not to be made to go. The teachers tell them that the kids will be fine and will settle down. The parents, trusting the teachers as 'experts', usually force their children. The distress does not go away, the unresolved emotion, completely dismissed and disregarded, does not go away. The body remembers that state, it remembers that what wrongness is sensed didn't matter to anyone. It does not matter if an adult thinks the distress is unfounded, the whole body is thrown by repeated or chronic distress, and everyone has different sensitivity to the same event. A child's body does not suddenly stop feeling it when they get to class, when they "settle down" They have to pack it away, disassociate, cut off that very part of themselves that feels that, to not risk humiliation by the teachers and students for staying upset, it gets repressed, in order to comply, to adapt Most don't register their school experiences as traumatizing, but that is what happens when everyone treats what is unhealthy as normal
It's funny, in a place that claimed to care so much about children and their mental health, not once did I see teachers care about individual students' strengths and weaknesses, capabilities, needs, wants, what would help them thrive and grow into the best they can be. What they were ready or not ready for. Only performance had value. Performance is what you get acceptance or rejection for. To the point that even student's physical health was disregarded. You're sick? Come in anyways and work like a donkey when you should be resting, oh, and of course risk your long term health along with the other students who will catch whatever you have. As long as you're never missing school :))) ...Same school that will never take be the ones crying or paying for what they caused, no, they will wash their hands of anything negative and take all the credit for the statistics- the grades, the percentage of their students that went to the top universities. Never the human beings who become collateral damage.
I've seen impossible, unidentifiable health issues appear in young children who were chronically stressed by an environment completely unsuited to them. I've seen the effects that children bullied or even just ostracized by teachers and other students suffer years after. Lives utterly ruined. For what? A couple of grades from a subpar education system? Grades that don't even guarantee work as an adult, you know, the work these adults might not even be able to do because they're crippled by mental and physical issues they've acquired during their time in education
