Now there's a question Dora!
Sketch, you know as much about womens panties as you do about bras? :D
God these comment areas are getting raunchy!

LOL good one Danny being Manny! :D

Hi Lynne,
Thanks for your reply. I totally understand what you mean about the staff who tried. It must be the hardest job in the world to deal with people like this. I like how you admit that these places had problems but defend the staff. I agree, many of these patients were violent and I suppose that in some cases they did need to be restrained.
Still, I think all those old movies and pictures from Pennhurst are important to see so people can understand how much better mental institutions are today. They were hell holes back then though, I don't think that can be denied. I know that people with certain mental problems still have to be restained at times due to violent antics but at least the conditions today are a lot better.
Again I never meant to attack the staff at all, I'm just saying that I am glad that conditions are better now.
One thing I didn't understand: they say this picture was drawn by staff right? Well wasn't it also supposed to be hung up in an area near kids? That's all I meant when I said it might scare some kids if it was hanging in a place they might have seen it. That's the only reason I commented about the children. Didn't the TA class involve the kids? Again thanks for your knowlegde.

It looks like Dopey escaped. He must have seen those horrible pictures in the basement playroom and gotten himself peeled away FAST!!!

This is so disturbing! An older inmate had to have drawn these things--either that or someone working real hard to become an inmate. All of the paintings in this play room from hell are scary but this one is above and beyond all hope of reason.
First of all why are all the normal kids looking away from the viewer? Doesn't that seem strange?
Secondly why is the girl in the wheelchair hidden in the back and so very faded out? It's like she's a ghost. If someone else hadn't mentioned her I wouldn't have seen her.
Finally what the hell was wrong with the person who drew this? Look at the eyes, they are non-exsistant; just gaping black holes where the eyes should be.
Whoever painted these needed to get their head checked ASAP.
Those poor children in this room--I bet there was a high suicide rate among them as they got older.

Okay there is something definitely amiss here. Look at the painting: why does that horse appear to being savagely attacked by that lion as the elephant looks on gleefully?
Whoever drew these things DID NOT like children.

Who the hell drew that thing? Okay maybe it was supposed to be a ginerbread house--I'm sure that is exactly what the artist told the supervisors that's what he was drawing but obviously some of thing was done with malicious intentions. That thing looks WAY too much like a monster to appear to be anything else.
Seriously I think we had a bit of a disguntled artist here. Maybe they didn't pay him (or her) enough money so artist went on a pianting rampage; punishing the kids for something that was the employers fault.
What a pleasant and uplifting thought, huh?