But this account from Friends Reunited is much clearer. It is from a girl who attended the Edgware School from 1970 to 1976:
“Only once, when my teacher spotted me throwing a paper aeroplane back at a boy who had just hit me with it. He got away with it, whilst I was taken out into the corridor and slippered.”
That brief account does not reveal how many whacks the girl received and it doesn’t tell us whether the teacher was male or female. What we do know is that the Edgware School was a mixed school, and that tells us that boys were almost certainly (unless it was needlework or cookery) present. It is interesting that the girl reveals that this was her only slippering throughout her six years at the school, as that may indicate that beatings of girls were fairly rare events. Rare events attract more attention and interest than frequent and commonplace ones.