29/11/16

Another beautiful early winter day, frost and blue sky all day.  The only down side is the low sun which dazzled me most of the day but I'll live with that for the pleasure of the day.  I was thinking about my school days today.  I hated school and far from being the best days of my life they were the worst.  I think it all started with Mrs Ansell, my first teacher at Holme on Spalding Moor County Primary School.  I may not have been a particularly nice child, I have no idea, but that was no reason for the disgusting woman to behave the way she did. I often felt physically ill to the point of having stomach ache at the thought of going to schoo. I don't think my view of the woman is distorted by time, there were others, both older and younger than me, who she disliked and decided to bully.  One of my Mother's friends occasionally stood in as a supply teacher, she told my mother that I shook when it was my turn to come out and read to her.  The damned Mrs Ansell had be so terrified that I was unable to read words that I knew well. I remember her accosting me in the dinner queue for no reason that I can remember and nipping my arm as hard as she could, I was a little older by then and didn't give her the satisfaction of showing that I felt anything at all.  Due to my experience I made a point of meeting the first couple of teachers of both my children. I had no intention of letting them suffer the same sort of bullying from a teacher that I suffered.  I am not able to quantify the damage the disgusting woman was allowed to do to my education but I can say she delayed my reading considerably. She certainly helped develop and hone my total hatred of school which lasted for the whole of my schooling.  She is dead now and with a bit of luck is rotting in hell, a place she worked hard to earn. That last comment may sound a bit harsh but I mean it, the woman was disgusting. People say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead but I see no reason to lie about someones character because they are dead and gone, it doesn't make them any better for the lie.
See you tomorrow.

I am not normally a bitter person but in this case I will make an eexception.