Click on the letter above to enable yourself to read it.
This letter is self explainatory. This is a document proving in my recent video, "The Tools of Audism" where some punishment were executed among many deaf children in the 50 years of her management of oral school. Many former students told me about what the principal did to scores of poor deaf children.
When the school changed from ASL to Oralism, they resorted to punishments to keep the deaf students on track of audism. The school was founded in 1837 from Sisters of St. Joseph from France (linkage to Clerc). Their original mission was to work with deaf children using sign language. The school made unfortunate decision in 1933 to implement oralism and weed out ASL effective during 1934 school year. It is still in practice today. It is a continuing practice of audism.
The trail of punishments left by Sister Joyce Buckler were started in 1954 and ended in 2005. But what about other teachers? They were part of the system of abuses as per former students.
This letter speaks volumes of truth of audism and abuses at oral schools around the world.
This practice needs to be stopped.
I remember meeting that principal, Sister Joyce Buckler. I was not even friendly to her and I did protests at her grand opening of the new school sometime in 1996. I walked in the new school and threw papers everywhere in the halls, restrooms, classrooms and the campus sidewalks. The sisters had to run around and clean up the paper trail that I made. I threw papers like confetti. I made over 15,000 pieces and it was gratifying to see the papers everywhere on the campus.
Sister Joyce Buckler got angry and demanded that I stop littering the campus or be escorted off the campus. I walked closer to her and told her in my loud voice in one of the classrooms where I was dropping papers. "You are indeed a bad nun and you have hurt many deaf children through your evil punishments. I dare you to throw me off the campus!" She got furious and walked away. I decided to stop it there and mingled with some friends for a while before heading off the campus. I forgot my camera that day so I have been kicking myself in the rear about it. I was dissed at Sister Joyce Buckler for trying to control me when I was younger and how she treated the children during her reign of terror.
I had learned to do that kind of strategy using "upsetting the bad apple cart concept". I have been involved in protests and marches since high school. It is a long story about the developments of actions and coordination of friends and supporters to move the ball.
Was it a justice when Sister Joyce Buckler fell off her bed cracking her crown and passed away recently? Why did the school let her have retirement party and sweep the scandal under the carpet? Was it a justice? I betcha NOT!
The front piece of confetti read like this:
The back side of the confetti read like this.
On my personal note, it is the truth that needed to shine the light on audism and its practices. We networked with friends to seek mental health services and advocacy to weed out the audism practices. We are continuing to do more advocacy and networking to weed out audism.
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The abuse of children is sick and to hear that that staff prevented them from using sign language and forcing oral speaking is tantamount to child abuse. Every former student of this school ought to call up a lawyer and tell them what happened and then file a claim of civil rights against this.
Good job to post on this.
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