505 Comments for Dever State School

keith i think you are right..i work in a place like this one and as a staff i try to give each child the best care and alot of the staff i work with are the same way...most children do not know anything different...no we don't live there 24 7, but i work with a lot of caring people...not to mention at times some of these places are the best place for children...i work with a lot of behavior children and we are trained on how to deal with that..sure times have changed and we are more understanding of laws, right, respect..in just 10 years of working in the human service feild i have seen the changes..and yes any empty building left for years will look this way i'm sure..

this is paul dever school located in taunton ma...i have been there and i don't live far from there..

hey, ave been in there multiple times and have alot to say about the place and some thingss that i have witnessed in there that you might be interested in knowing. please contact me at NLarsen219@live.com id love to tell you about a few things ive personally seen.

as akid i grew up near dever, i always knew i would work there.it was not ugly then,but is quite beat up now...............

it was not like a prison at all you had to work there to get it .my first job was in the kitchen. this is how they all ate,very good cooks i might add......................................

just imagine if one of you end up in this some day......................................................

all of you need to get an understanding of the mentally retarded.it could be you or one of your family members on any given day.

it wasnt like that at all .i worked there and the people we serviced were very well taken care of.

i went there with my friends, we recorded it and in the pic there was another light. we only had one flash light when we went at night!

It's never the same sun, never the same river, never the same electricity that lights your house up, they are things always flowing never the same witness...

Hey!, where's the "no soap dispensers?" guy??? that was so funny!!!

What once colorful, massively visited, noisy and full of youth, now old, quiet, forgoten and dry... sounds almost like a regular human life.

Building not ugly at all, maybe just what reminds you of... Motts has taken us to really nightmare places but surprinsingly with such beautiful compliments.

I used to work there years ago.. i worked with 15 patients per ward.. when you started woring you had to count the patients and then check the door in the back of the ward. One night i was sitting and i then checked the door again. I found it was unlocked. i was the only one with the key for the back door, my boss and i had to go into tunnel to see if anyone was there. we didn't find anyone but we both think it was a spirit that had unlocked the door. all the patients were a sleep..

I'm pretty sure we used stuff like this when I worked at the dining halls at college... maybe not quite that big, though!

It is interesting to think that the sun you see in this photo is the same sun that has shown down on well the whole world for ever and ever. I mean when this place was used as a war time building, the people who lived/worked there saw the same sun that the school children and staff saw and it is the same sun we see today. Kind of timeless, right?