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Anthea Penfold: Squashed

Anthea was born in 1941 in Guildford, Surrey. She spent her entire school life in residential special schools in Sussex and Kent.

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Here Anthea describes the impact her teacher had on her confidence.

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Transcript

I just lost confidence. The English teacher was the one who I hated, who was – who came up – who had a very irrational temper and, you know, she just squashed me utterly.

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