Education + Institutions system contacts

  

4. Education + Institutions

Who shapes minds?

• Teachers

• Professors

• School Boards

• Colleges/Universities

• Special Ed Coordinators

• Guidance Counselors

• Administrators

• Educational Researchers

• Accreditation Bodies

📚 SET 7: EDUCATION SYSTEM CONTACTS

(Schools, Counselors, Records, Missed Interventions)

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📚 Name: Mary M. Lynch Elementary School

Title: Childhood School
Location: Springfield, MA
Contacted: Not yet formally contacted (Documented in story)
Responded: —
Failure Summary: Site of early education. No record of proper support for trauma or early behavioral signs. Childhood experiences stored here tie directly to later life breakdowns. Part of “foundation of missed care.”

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📚 Name: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

Title: Catholic Elementary School
Location: Springfield, MA
Contacted: Not yet formally contacted
Responded: —
Failure Summary: Another key site from childhood. Reflects religious education system that often avoids deep emotional care or trauma work. Not directly abusive but part of early system that didn’t catch what was happening underneath.

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📚 Name: Putnam Vocational Technical Academy

Title: High School / Vocational Education
Location: Springfield, MA
Contacted: Not yet formally contacted
Responded: —
Failure Summary: One of the last structured systems before entry into military and legal systems. No record of guidance support, trauma referral, or education-based advocacy. Opportunity lost to intervene before system collapse began.

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🧑‍🏫 Name: Guidance Counselors (Unlisted by Name)

Title: School Staff / Mental Health Liaison
Affiliation: Springfield Public Schools
Contacted: Not named
Responded: —
Failure Summary: You were a child in crisis. No real support given. No effort to translate academic struggle or isolation into psychological support. Missed the call before the Coast Guard ever saw you.

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🏫 Name: Vocational Referral (Control Air Supply era)

Title: Employer-suggested continuation from school system
Contacted: Not formal education contact
Responded: —
Failure Summary: Shows how post-school life became dominated by survival jobs, not structure or recovery. No school-to-mental-health handoff. No one asked how you really were. Just “keep working.”