I got the slipper at school twice, once aged 12 and once aged 14.
Both times it was in private over my school skirt and both times it really stung and made me cry. In fact the first time and the girl who was slippered with me was in tears before the whacking. I got it first.
It was two whacks the first time for being in a part of the school where we weren’t supposed to be because of the builders and four the other time for tearing a picture out of my textbook.
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