She Never Betrayed Them....
By Sue21
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
Pamplona, Spain
September 11, 2017 5:06am CST
She knew where they had gone
She knew where they had been
All they had done was to play a boys game
A kind of thing that some boys play
You know how they challenge each other
That is all that they did on that day
Not far from the School had they gone
She knew all about as she heard them say
Teacher said "I will not hurt anyone if they own up"
Teacher said "I promise that I won´t lift a finger against"
They trusted him and gave themselves up
A brutal caning is what they got
But she did not give them away
Her eyes blurred with tears as she saw what he did
What he did to them was to betray
He never kept his word and in him did they trust
Beware the traitor is never sometimes too far away.
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29 responses
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
11 Sep 17
Sadly that is so.
This is one of the times that I felt really bad for my friends.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
12 Sep 17
@just4him
Terrible kind of person to never know what side of the coin he would turn up with.
I did not fear him like they did because I already knew that kind of person so you get used to them.
But he said twice over that he was not going to touch them and that was really bad of him to do that.
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@just4him (317050)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Sep 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 It showed.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
18 Sep 17
That is a very awesome writing Lovings!!! Yes traitors are the same as snakes.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
18 Sep 17
@TiarasOceanView
Something I never forgot and taught me not to be so trusting.
Thanks as well Tiara.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
18 Sep 17
Yes, Tiara they were my School Mates and they were betrayed by that said Teacher that they so trusted.
Not that I ever trusted him at all God forbid.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
18 Sep 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 Oh dear what a sad story..thanks for the beautiful poem Lovings.
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@m_audrey6788 (58472)
• Germany
11 Sep 17
Yes..Traitor are just around the corner and hard to see in a day! I guess, we just all have to be very careful! Have a nice day!
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
11 Sep 17
Only too true really.
You have a nice day too.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
13 Sep 17
We have to be yes and I could see right through him.
I don´t care if he was the Teacher or not and he taught me to not trust adults as such.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
18 Sep 17
@DianneN
The School I was at you had to be a bit tough otherwise you would not get out unscathed and my friends can vouch for that too.
I know all adults are not bad we just happened to have more than our fair share of them.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
18 Sep 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 Aw, not all adults are bad, but children must be wary, sad to say.
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
23 Oct 17
That is horrible. No one should be beaten esp. when promised that they wouldn't be punished.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
13 Nov 17
Just how I felt when I saw that happening to them right in front of everyone.
I bit my bottom lip trying not to cry all my friends being hurt in such a way.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
13 Nov 17
@FayeHazel
Really it was not surprising considering how strict they were there.
I was so glad to leave that place even though the education was very good.
Of course they cannot do that now but they did then.
In another School not so long back I saw the same cruel attitude but it was a different kind of event but even so the disdain for the pupils and the lack of care for them was quite shocking for me in this day and age I thought that they had got rid of the Victorian times.
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
13 Nov 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 That's terrible and traumatic... I'm surprised that was allowed to happen
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
11 Sep 17
No, not nice at all.
Some hero worshipped that guy but not me I could see straight through him.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
19 Sep 17
oh yes. often traitor is right in your way of sight.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
19 Sep 17
He was too right in front of us with a nasty look on his face.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
20 Sep 17
@bunnybon7
Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens wrote about some sinister characters also lol.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
2 Nov 17
Very creative poem! The lesson is that some will have our backs and some will beat our backs. God had betrayers and so did Jesus. We need to be careful.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
2 Nov 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 From my life's experience, I agree with you. Sometimes those we trust with much will stab us in the back.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
2 Nov 17
@1hopefulman
It happened to me over and over and just recently too only just a few days back.
But I still trust we have to in a way.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
2 Nov 17
Yes we need to be careful sometimes even with those that we think we know so well also.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
1 Nov 17
great poem - very sad story and all too true to life
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
1 Nov 17
I wish he would have been so different you know but he always had the sneak streak in him.
So glad he was never my form teacher yikes.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
2 Nov 17
@arthurchappell
Such a person is a real misery to be around.
I never once found him funny not ever.
The very ones he caned more or less hero worship him and I cannot for the life of me understand that.
Maybe its me and my outlook.
It pained me to see them treated in such a disdainful way like they were worth nothing and to me they meant everything.
@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
1 Nov 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 I would have hated to have such a teacher too
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
30 Oct 17
I had a teacher like this. But, our whole class knew not to trust him. He did not like our class. Yes these words of yours speak to me @lovinangelsinstead21 .
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
30 Oct 17
Oh no.
You had a Teacher like that also?
He was never our Form Teacher I was very lucky to escape from his grasp in that sense.
Sorry they speak to you and must remind you of something that happened ages ago.
Good job that they did not trust him either much wiser not to.
He was a real sneak type character.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
31 Oct 17
@bluesa
He did indeed but hiding behind a good face to the public which is and was the worst of it all.
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
31 Oct 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 Yes, this teacher should never have been a teacher, he had no patience or care and he had a violent and mean streak.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
23 Oct 17
It has always been a place where there was a Victorian attitude and severity.
But most of the time most Teachers did not act like he did thank goodness you just had the odd one like that one.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
23 Oct 17
@JudyEv
In this day and age it should not be so.
When we were at School this was so and you accepted it as being normal for most of the time.
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@JudyEv (340019)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Oct 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 Some teachers were very brutal and unkind at times. I hope there are not too many like that around now but I guess there will always be some who are severe.
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@aninditasen (16389)
• Raurkela, India
30 Oct 17
Sadly that's true. We have to keep our ears and eyes open.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
30 Oct 17
Sadly that is very true.
I just hope that this kind of Teacher does not exist now as it did then.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
30 Oct 17
@aninditasen
Sorry to hear that and they exist here too and in other places.
@aninditasen (16389)
• Raurkela, India
30 Oct 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 No, there are still some such teachers. At least in India.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
9 Nov 17
No, never that it was all about the cane and cruelty and using the buckle end of a belt on the knuckles.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
10 Nov 17
@thelme55
That was mainly punishment for the girls that he used or the dreaded slipper which was no ordinary slipper by any means.
It was the way it was then you did not dare back answer a teacher like they might do now.
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@thelme55 (77061)
• Germany
10 Nov 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 I am glad it was not like that but still, hurting the kids with the belt is horrible.
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@AllforHim (64)
• Philippines
14 Nov 17
That's rough. Good thing teachers are not allowed to hurt/hit students in this time and age, or they'll get sued.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
14 Nov 17
Yes now they would not dare.
We were bullied by a few of them.
But the thing was we are and have been a tough lot as well.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
15 Nov 17
@AllforHim
I don´t know why that although they bullied us in many ways and other things we always stuck up for each other and not like now where the sense of being protective to others seems to not exist sometimes.
Children now need so much protection.
@AllforHim (64)
• Philippines
15 Nov 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 that explains it...
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
13 Nov 17
I could never like a Teacher like that and I never did like him at all.
He was not my form Teacher but even if he had been I would still not have liked him.
Shady and sinister man he was.
@Chantiele (433)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
23 Oct 17
Wow this is really an interesting poem. Is it written on personal experience?
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
23 Oct 17
It is because I thought and well I never thought he would do that to them as he promised not to punish them.
No one was allowed outside the School Gates and they had only gone in the Dinner Time to play boys games a little.
It was way out of proportion what he did.
He could have put them in detention and made them write out 500 lines of I shall not and all that but no he went the opposite way round.
Victorian era School was where I went and although I am grateful for such a good education some of the things I experienced there were not what they should have been even then.
More like the "Jane Eyre" story which was actually based on the life of Charlotte and her older Sister who was named Maria instead of Helen.
Resurgam is the word that comes to mind.
In a School in England not many weeks back I was dismayed to see that the same "attitude" is still in force in the background although there was no physical punishment like there was then the same "attitude" was still around.
Have a great day ahead and pleased that you are writing here.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
26 Sep 17
A teacher who lies is an abomination, that can destroy a child's trust forever.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
26 Sep 17
But do you know what even today they hero worship the very same person like I was saying to someone else today I don´t get it why they do that.
I would not hero worship someone like that.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
26 Sep 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 Nor me but there is no accounting for tastes.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
22 Oct 17
I know.
But above all they still spoke well of him even after that sort of like a Stockholm Syndrome you know.
I never did maybe its me.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
4 Nov 17
that is sad. it is child cruelty. oh, a fox in a sheep's skin.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
4 Nov 17
He was a real wolf or is I am not sure whether he is still around.
I never hero worship someone like that not ever.
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
28 Oct 17
Traitors are just like that; they will try all means to get and betray people.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
28 Oct 17
its how I lived it just like I wrote it.
They were my friends and he hurt them badly.
Yes they do just that go out of their way to betray others.