I was very lucky to have two years at Key. I am a better person because of excellent teachers and cherished comrades, to whom I am grateful for life. To my utter dismay I find that I was very lucky also not to have faced abuse at Key. Any such abuse absolutely demands honest and full disclosure. Those who endured it are owed an abject public apology, and whatever amends survivors demand. Responsibility does not end with the perpetrators. It extends to those, if any, who may, out of a deranged notion of "reputation," have failed to report abuses and thereby permitted them to continue. Anyone with a true care for the school's reputation would have been the first to report any abuse publicly. The steps to be taken should be entirely up to anyone who endured abuse. No one else should have any say about this. Any dereliction of any kind in this necessity would be both another wrong to those who were abused, and a reason to fear that such abuses may be repeated. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." I will do anything any abuse survivor asks of me to support their cause.
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Sarah Reines Conway
8 years ago
In choosing to protect its precious reputation and hide the truth over the years, the school community has chosen to distance itself from the very students it should be listening to and embracing.
The great Key experiment had flaws that hurt many of its students. From my perspective, the most enlightened and radical step that the school could take at this point is to reach out from the heart to the survivors and apologize and carefully begin a gentle process of truth and reconciliation. An honest process of community healing would be the best lesson Key could teach their current student body.
Too much to say, but I do have testimony.
Bravo Carolyn... count me in
Time's up.
I was very lucky to have two years at Key. I am a better person because of excellent teachers and cherished comrades, to whom I am grateful for life. To my utter dismay I find that I was very lucky also not to have faced abuse at Key. Any such abuse absolutely demands honest and full disclosure. Those who endured it are owed an abject public apology, and whatever amends survivors demand. Responsibility does not end with the perpetrators. It extends to those, if any, who may, out of a deranged notion of "reputation," have failed to report abuses and thereby permitted them to continue. Anyone with a true care for the school's reputation would have been the first to report any abuse publicly. The steps to be taken should be entirely up to anyone who endured abuse. No one else should have any say about this. Any dereliction of any kind in this necessity would be both another wrong to those who were abused, and a reason to fear that such abuses may be repeated. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." I will do anything any abuse survivor asks of me to support their cause.
In choosing to protect its precious reputation and hide the truth over the years, the school community has chosen to distance itself from the very students it should be listening to and embracing. The great Key experiment had flaws that hurt many of its students. From my perspective, the most enlightened and radical step that the school could take at this point is to reach out from the heart to the survivors and apologize and carefully begin a gentle process of truth and reconciliation. An honest process of community healing would be the best lesson Key could teach their current student body.