The story is invented and probably not true. I would not be that sure about the teachers in the case of real fire. They would run out first and leave children behind. When my mom was small before WWII, teachers in the same county rushed children into one raft to save money for transport over the river. The raft had overturned and 31 children had drown. Only one teacher went into the water to save them while the rest took off. Some of them were almost lynched to death by angry parents, but eventually all teachers disappeared after this incident to avoid justice and public outburst. No single person was punished for it... My mon had some horror stories to say about WWII, air raids when teachers run into shelters and left children in the classroom to save for themselves, etc. She dispised teachers until today.
Troubling experience at 1 day assembly re: little jw child
by williamhconley 58 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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wasblind
" The story is invented and probably not true "____Kaik
As in the case of " Andre "
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kaik
who is Andre?
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wasblind
Hello Kaik
It's a name the WTS use in almost every story they write
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Did your mom hate the teachers from what she heard
or did she witness this horriffic accident ? If so
My heart goes out to her havin' this etched into her memory
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Magnum
the boy answered "well I know christmas is bad and also birthdays but firedrills....Im not too sure so I stayed"
And how does he know that Christmas and birthdays are bad? How can a first-grader know such things? He has no clue. He only knows what Mommie & Daddy have told him. The other kids are going by what their parents have told them. At that age, it's all just about what they hear from their authority figures, usually parents. He has nowhere near the knowledge, mental capabiltiy, experience, etc. to know that Christmas and birthdays are wrong. If he knows birthdays are wrong, I wish he'd tell me how he knows.
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snowbird
Andre.
LOL.
Sylvia
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washblind
My mom had her memories published around 1960 with other students of that school. It is rather depressing, because of rapes of children by Red Army, torture of partyzans (one of them was tied up by wire and had his hand fried in the boiling oil by Nazis and his eyes were poked out), abuse and beating by teachers, kids fighting for life leaving them permanently crippled. She talks a lot about air rides because her school was bombed and her best friends were torn apart by the bombs. Teachers locked themselves in the school basement turned into shelter while leaving most of the children above. She survived hidding along the road in the ditch. She never liked teachers and said many compensated their hatred for life on the most vulnerables - children. I asked her several times to write memories as the generation of WWII is dying off, and many younger people do not believe that these horrors happened.
The story of the 31 children drown by overturn raft is known as Rakvice tragedy. Happened in 1936 in Czechoslovakia as a direct fault of the teachers who after the incident took off. Several of them never returned into the village because they were afraid of parents and disappeared from the country the same day nobody knows where they ended avoiding justice.
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wasblind
" I asked her several times to write memories as the generation of WWII is dying off "____Kaik
Our elderly can teach us very much
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Washblind
My brain was washed blindly by the WTS at one time
but now I see
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sparrowdown
It reminds me of an awful story a member of the GB (forget which one) related at a zone visit.
He was highlighting the wicked stupidity of young men that wear low rider jeans.
Recounting a tragic newspaer article of how a young guy being chased by the police
got his low rider pants caught on a fire escape rail and fell to his death.
The audience laughed their guts out and appauded.
I was apalled. Sick BSTARDS!
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Sparrowdown
If you look in the " My book of Bible stories "
They drew pictures of the Israelites laughin' at the Egyptians drown
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Normal people would have a look of horror on their face
to see such. Even if it did relieve them from thier enemy afterwards
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