Or was it because she was only 14 and not considered old enough, or not able to withstand a caning on the bottom? According to the Friends Reunited pages, now deleted to avoid libel action, and Steve’s research, it was only the older girls, 15/16 or above that were caned on the bottom. But was that the only reason it applied to older girls?
There were calls for an inquiry and the first one to have known that one was on the cards would have been the headmaster. He baled out before he was shot down. If he was on sick leave then he would not be available to answer questions directly, and everyone else would be able to say not me, I did not know anything about that, Everything would be swept under the carpet much to the delight of the education authority, able to sit on their backsides and regard it as a success at not having to do anything that might look like work sorting out an abusive and disgraceful situation.