Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Evidence and analysis of why the guardians created Hailsham. Example: not to benefit the children, but to assuage their own guilt for using them as...

The
weekly medical exams are a major clue that
this is not a normal school. No normal school
requires weekly medical
examinations out of concern for its students. That would not only be
cost
prohibitive, it would also be far too time-consuming. As long as students are
basically
healthy, the teachers would be far more concerned with their
academic performance and progress
than with weekly health check-ups. This
excessive concern for their short-term physical well
being is a clue that
student academic performance is not the primary concern of the guardians of

the school. The guardians are more apparently concerned with bodily health than with
mental
acumen and academic progress.

A second red flag
is the
Hailsham...

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