I wasn't in a childrens home but I went to a Catholic school in the '50s and saw what I suppose would now be termed as 'abuse'. We were taught by teachers and also a strict order of nuns. My mother took me to school on my first day aged 5. I had no idea what was going on. There was no pre-school or nursery in those days. I was just taken and left as were many of us. I was so frightened that I wet my pants. The teacher pulled a chair out to the front of the class, stood me on it and said to the children 'look what this dirty little girl has done'. I saw (and suffered) many instances of this sort of thing. I have mentioned on here before my experience, aged about 7, of being put in a van on my own and taken to a delousing centre. I think, like Jalima s neighbour a lot of these children grow into nervous, anxious adults, including myself. That's how school was for many of us in those days.
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