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A THREAD on t emotional impact of Early Boarding Schools. They've been such an institutn w/in British culture that its been hard to contmplate t emotional damage they might leave. But what if that's possible - and t damage ripples to others? How do we TALK abt it? Some videos... 
2. Here's @nickduffell incredibly powerful & uncomfortable 1994 documentary 'The Making of Them', which followed young boys heading off to boarding school. Look out for the repressed emotional distress.
3. Here's the incredibly powerful & uncomfortable 2019 animation from @tony2gammidge 'Norton Grim and Me'. He explores the feelings of being sent off to school age 7. I feature Tony's work in my book #TigersAndTeddies.
tonygammidge.com/my-films
tonygammidge.com/my-films
'Twas Two Weeks Before Christmas.
Last year on ths very day, we were broadcasting live this Seasonal Special of #TigersAndTeddies. My thanks to all who came, to @garywrobinson who is The Best & to t teacher who taught me to write outrageous drivel poetry.
Last year on ths very day, we were broadcasting live this Seasonal Special of #TigersAndTeddies. My thanks to all who came, to @garywrobinson who is The Best & to t teacher who taught me to write outrageous drivel poetry.
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2. Okay, I'm in fits of giggles remembrng this moment of the Poetic Recitation. "And then? Gary was speaking, his good jolly self. That's 'good jolly self', not 'jolly old elf'." #GoodFriends
@garywrobinson @paulinescott222 @fionalarkin13 @HeatherMunro8 @JKnussen @gerrydiamond71
@garywrobinson @paulinescott222 @fionalarkin13 @HeatherMunro8 @JKnussen @gerrydiamond71
THREAD on Boarding Schools.
@NeilMackay story features in this morn’s @heraldscotland . It covers FOUR pages. FOUR. Full of voices recounting the horrific abuse they suffered in such institutions, at the hands of other children, facilitated by adults who knew.
@NeilMackay story features in this morn’s @heraldscotland . It covers FOUR pages. FOUR. Full of voices recounting the horrific abuse they suffered in such institutions, at the hands of other children, facilitated by adults who knew.
2. I contributed to this piece. My key point is this: “If a large proportion of our political leaders experienced this - especially early boarding, which creates emotional fragility - then does that mean our country is led by emotionally damaged people? If so, we ALL suffer.”
3. My colleague @SimonPartridge is also quoted. Simon co-authored with me the set of articles on ACES & attachment published this summer. He said this: “Boarding school created attachment problems & could lead to PTSD.”
THREAD: Boarding school
Today's @guardian contains an excerpt from the latest book soon to be published on the emotional devastation caused to so many boys by early boarding school -- boys that grow into the leaders of this country.
theguardian.com/education/2021…
Today's @guardian contains an excerpt from the latest book soon to be published on the emotional devastation caused to so many boys by early boarding school -- boys that grow into the leaders of this country.
theguardian.com/education/2021…
2. "Several times a year, our attachments to home & family were broken. We lost everything – and we could cry if we liked but no one would help us. So, LATER IN LIFE, WHEN WE SAW OTHER PEOPLE CRY, WE FELT NO GREAT NEED TO GO TO THEIR AID." theguardian.com/education/2021…
3. When you have a government filled with leaders who do not have the empathy to feel the pain of people they govern, then you hv an emotionally corrupt political system. Boarding school becomes dangerous not just for the damaged boys grown into men. It is dangerous for everyone.
How do power & capitalism intersect w/ the distribution of academic knowledge? This is an issue @DrJessTaylor & I discussed in a recent episode #TigersAndTeddies. I've had lots of questions since. COVID briefings have raised public curiosity further. So here's a THREAD.
2. The financial inequity of academic publishing is under scrutiny. This 2019 article is one of the best I know to summarise the issues. "When science is locked behind paywalls, it means cancer patients can’t easily read the research on their conditions." vox.com/the-highlight/…
3. “Until we have enough academics who are willing to do something different, then I don’t see a big change happening [in how scientific results are published & made available to the public].” vox.com/the-highlight/…
THIS single 1976 image frm BBC #MrsAmerica captures a crucial intersectn of feminism & early years & now COVID economics. It contrasts w/ yesterday’s #TigersAndTeddies message: “Children need love IN childcare.” We need to bring understanding of ths political history to EYsector.
I want to write a brief & very personal thread abt what it means to me to be talkng w/ @DrJessTaylor at tomoro's #TigersAndTeddies. The publication of her feminist book ths Summer2020 takes me back 20 years to Summer2000, whn I published my own, trying to tackle similar problems.
2. I want to talk about ths because t public often associates me w/ teddy bears & babies & sweet connection. But my deepest intellectual roots are in feminist theory, where I learned to think about power & language & t social construction of knowledge. These shape how I work now.
3. For anyone who doesn't know her work, @DrJessTaylor founded Victim Focus & ths year published t book Why Women Are Blamed For Everything. "Written for every single woman & girl who has been told she had to make her life smaller to avoid male violence." theguardian.com/books/2020/apr…
