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Deborah Sowerby: Being Corrected

Deborah was born in 1949 in London. She spent some time in hospital as a young child and then was sent to a residential special school in East Sussex at the age of five, staying there until she was sixteen and then going on to Art School.

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Here Deborah talks about the culture of ‘treatment’ within her school.

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Transcript

It wasn't about education really, and I think it's important to remember that. It was about hospital, it was about treatment, it was where working-class children were sent when they were, where parents were deemed to be unable to cope, where we would get treatment, to, I guess, to be corrected.

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