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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-11-08 07:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #1771 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1771 ⌋


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(Anonymous) 2011-11-09 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Considering we spent the 80s and 90s prosecuting and cleaning up from the child abuse cases from the 50s onwards that had basically been disbelieved or ignored at the time... I think this was a book that reflected real concerns that were just starting to come out. It was normal in the past for people to know there was a teacher that a child should avoid being alone with, who was a perv, and nobody did anything about it. It was normal for children to complain of serious abuse and be disbelieved, for teachers and social workers and staff at children's homes to be protected and the children disbelieved, even when there were many complaints and people basically knew it was true.

Things are very different now: we spent the 90s and 2000s basically rewriting our culture when it comes to child safety. It's seriously different now, but the Trunchbull stuff is actually quite believable in the old culture. Working in the new UK culture, I find the statistics on American schools appalling, but under the old UK system it was much the same.