Graduation is a milestone in my student days.
Basically, every family comes to watch over the culmination of their child's growth.
Parents do not come to the graduation ceremony for the children of the facility.
For the children of the facility, the parents (if any) were convenient adults who would come across for long vacations.
Even if they recognize that they are parents, they do not ask for anything in particular, but they just give them temporary freedom from the inconvenience of facilities.
When I got home, I was free to do whatever I wanted without being bound by rules or time.
I was really looking forward to my parents picking me up for a long vacation, and on the contrary, when I returned to the facility, I was crying because I didn't want to go home.
It was the same simple reason that "freedom was lost", similar to the worry that summer vacation would end and the murderous daily life would begin.
In retrospect, I didn't see my parents as they should be as human beings.
However, I felt that it would be a problem if my parents disappeared due to my instinct as a living thing (actually, the difference is whether or not they are left behind in the facility during summer vacation etc.).
I haven't heard deeply about how the other children were, but in my case there was no abuse.
Speaking of parents, I used to go home because I had many good friends when I was in elementary school.
My friend's parents should have known that I was a child of the facility.
However, I never felt discriminated against.
I always have sweets served and talked to me.
Probably, I think he was taken care of.
Considering myself at the time when I was afraid of being discriminated against, I am very grateful.
For the children of the facility, the graduation ceremony is, in a word, "unpleasant".
This is the same as athletic meet and evacuation drill, and it is an indescribable feeling that there is no parent.
The graduation ceremony was long and unbearable.
The gap was widening as I spent the time with my classmates laughing equally.
After the diploma was awarded, there was a scene where I said my "dream".
I said, "I want to be a doctor and save the sick."
I later heard from people that one of my parents was crying and leaking, "I can do it with that child," and at that time I wasn't sure why I was crying.
It costs a huge amount of money to become a doctor. Perhaps the parents of a friend sympathized with the fact that the child at the facility had no possibility in the first place.
The woman who was the victim of 3.11 said, "I'm sad about her poor situation," and I would have been in that situation at the time.
Institutional children seek sympathy
No, I just want them to be treated like ordinary children.
To summarize the elementary school life of the facility
There were some things I didn't like because I was in the facility and had no parents, but I had more fun memories. I think that's because the friends, teachers, and nursery teachers around me supported me.
