Sandra Evans:
Goldington Road Secondary Modern School, Bedford c 1965
Miss Knott
I don’t think I will ever forget Miss Knott, she was forever telling me off for calling her Missknott, think about it! She did cane me once for throwing a book at Miss Clines, the English teacher. Miss Knott took girls for needlework. I probably spent more time outside her room than in it. Boy, she knew how to wield that cane. I went to see her after I left, and she was really nice to me.
I am very disappointed! I do not expect this kind of behaviour from my class and I do not...
Unfortunately, after a while Vivienne came along to watch us, and she began to taunt my friend. She mocked the way...
From the back of the gym I could barely see the paddle that she brandished, but I would soon...
Before carrying out the slippering the teacher told me that I’d been “asking for this for a long time”...
He had me bend over an old padded bench loosely securing my wrists and ankles. He did not take...
I was always fascinated by the reactions of boys, and in a few instances girls,when they were slippered. The...
This statement contradicts and is confusing, “behaviour in girls less prevalent, but girls misbehave more”. and caning on the...
Some notes I put to one side as they did not look as if they had been done by...