The Day I Became a Teacher

And you know, I wonder if kids raised in a dorm system are simlair to kids raised on a commune or a kibbutizum( those Isreal collective farms)
I also think that it's a bit different nowadays too, since virtually ALL res schools send their students home for the weekends. It's no longer "spend six months living at school as a little kid"
Also, it's possible that part of the reason dorm schools were so bad back in the day was b/c they had kids with severe emotional distrubance who were mixed in with the general dhh population. There are now dhh programs/schools specificly for kids with severe emotional issues.
And it does seem like kids who experianced the dorms in this country and relatively recently loved them.....Even LuciaDistrubed says that res schools were a lot better then the children's homes she was in. That means they have changed from the warehouses/Blackboard Jungles of the old days.
 
You mean a kibbutz where people live and work cooperatively, eat in common dining halls, etc?
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Yes. That is exactly what I meant!
You do know actually that back in the OLD OLD days it wasn't that unusual for HEARING kids to live at school? Remember the book Little Men (by Lousia May Alcott?) That was the story of a residental school for boys. Remember the convent schools where kids would live at school? Granted things have changed a lot. ...like in those days buses weren't available and this country was VERY rural.
 
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