The combination of special needs programs in cultural and religious contexts where those children in particular are considered worth a great deal less than “normal” children, and generally not believed at face value when they complain about nasty or mean or dangerous adults to the level that abled children are, and Catholic schools and all the institutional and cultural baggage surrounding them, is a hell of a doozy. I don’t think any people in power I was forced to shut up and endure could have lasted as long as they did working outside special needs or outside church schools.