1880: Silencing the Deaf
November 22, 2022
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State Programmes always achieve the very opposite of whatever they set out to do. March 10, 1880: The Sumner Deaf and Dumb Institution opened for business in Christchurch and it was bankrolled by the New Zealand Government.
The Sumner Institute had the oxygen of state funding coupled with legislative force to abduct deaf children from their parents nationwide. Children 7-16yo be snatched bodily unless their parent could satisfy The State that “efficient and suitable” education was being provided. This was far more punitive a compulsory kidnapping than non-deaf children faced under the same law. A real stolen generation!
Ref. 1880: Silencing the Deaf, AHNZ
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