Suffer The Little Children Video Analysis

After watching the video Suffer the Little Children, Pennhurst State Home was disturbing to me. Sitting there almost in tears, seeing children being treated like animals. Tied to beds, drug, abused, and neglected. The facility was very cold, unsanitary, and inhumane, with cruel punishment. As an educator this video was hard to watch. My first thought was of my own children. Children are our future and after watching this video their future was very dim. I can’t even imagine as a parent leaving my child there, but what could they do. “(Parents who involve themselves in their children’s education have higher achieving children” (Slavin & Schunk, 2018).This video was hard to watch and made me a little sick to my stomach, and could not digest …show more content…
No two children are the same. They have different styles, ethics, backgrounds, attitudes and cultures. We have to meet each child’s needs. This place was not meeting their needs. Instead of an institute to help it became a prison, and to some a place of death. How could this take place? What puzzle me was that none of the employees reported what was going on here. The doctor that they interviewed. I could not believe what he was saying. I don’t know if he even knew what he was saying or he was just tired and ready to turn himself in.He thought it was okay to do what he was doing drugging the children to keep them in line. Psalm 139:13-14”For you have created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are your works and that my soul knows very well” (biblegateway.com). Teaching with diversity, we have to do it with differentiated instruction. Even though everyone might not be on the same level, but we can learn the same in our own way. We forget children are a gift from God, how we treat our gift, God only knows. You have to treat people the way you want to be treated. I have always done just that and will continue to do