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I agree that Kathy on her own was never going to offer great insight, but we had a period when Tommy was still trying to overcome his rages, that the two of them together - talking about Miss Lucy near the duck pond - were actually questioning things. This, it seemed to me, was a sort of unfulfilled turning point. Something could have grown from this, but didn't.
That failure seemed to be related to the idea that there were few places they could talk privately. This lack of privacy seemed to be an important aspect of the school. Even though Kathy never really talks of a lack of trust (on her part), it seems as if the children could not trust one another to keep secrets from the guardians.
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