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Quoich. Posted 19 Dec 2002.
Neither boys nor girls were encouraged to continue at school after 14. Girls
were actively discouraged. I am talking of prewar and wartime, and also of
the children of farm workers. Discrimination was worse in some areas eg
Roxburghshire was particularly bad. Berwickshire was much more enlightened.
It would be interesting to read of the experience of others. For myself had
my mother not come from a mining community in the west and was having none of
it, I might never have had a university education. To my mother I owe an
enormous debt.
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