And my response to you is this: You are right. Schools in the US are not "a bed of roses". We are severely lacking in our educational system. But the kinds of things that we experienced on a day to day basis at GNFC–the beatings, the corporal punishment, feces covered bathroom walls, no running water, sporadic electricity–are ILLEGAL in this country. It is AGAINST THE LAW to corporally punish a child and to physically abuse a child in ANY school in the United States of America. Period.

you say: "Everyone everywhere experiences difficulty and "trauma." How you cope with it determines the kind of person you are."

Well, it's possible you have developed techniques to cope with your own traumatic experiences. If those techniques including, oh say, meditation (like people in 3HO are trained to do), you are simply blotting it out, shelving it for later. So, by shelving it, it manifests in other ways, perhaps behavioral things like saying mean and snarky things on people's blogs.

But what's worse is that it perpetuates in the cycle of abuse. And it's a pernicious and closeted reality that far far too many families, women and children have to suffer through.