Something that bugs me...
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Left alone in this place by parents, the only company being other children like yourself...
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I had, by most people's standards, a fairly strict childhood, as far as early schooling was concerned
(for a yank, anyway).
It was a bi-lingual English Private school in a foreign country. (time frame is '56-'60)
'Nuff said? (God, I hope so!)
This resulted in several confrontations, and a few brinkmanship encounters
between my parents and school.
Occasionally these turned on decisions arrive at by either the school saying:
"Well, you are, of course, free to remove your child anytime you wish."
Or my parents saying something like:
"Of course I can always write next month's check to another school."
Or maybe both.
But I don't think there'd be any reason or excuse you could give to my parents that would get them to "deliver" me to such a place a second time. I doubt I could have hidden the fear of such an encounter from them, well enough that they wouldn't pick it up.
My parents were patriotic, in a way that would be hard to understand for people who didn't live through the first half of the 20th century. And my father was not a stranger to classified projects, either (Ex: Hanford Pant - See: Manhattan Project)
But I suspect the only way you'd get my young ar$e in one of these places a second time, would be to kill my parents.
So I am curious:
Just what did they tell your parents about what was going on?
Did they use anything to keep you from telling them "too much"? and what?
What was it they thought was going on?
Fred