Susan Boyle Was Beaten by Her Teachers
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SUSAN Boyle has revealed how she was bullied at school.
The Scottish singer — who shot to fame on Simon Cowell‘s UK TV show Britain’s Got Talent — says she was was hit with a belt every day by teachers who were ignorant about children with learning disabilities and taunted by classmates.
“You’re looking at someone who would get the belt every day. ‘Will you Shut up, Susan!’ — whack!” Boyle told Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper.
“I was often left behind at school because of one thing or another. I was a slow learner. I’m just a wee bit slower at picking things up than other people. So you get left behind in a system that just wants to rush on, you know? That was what I felt was happening to me.
“There was discipline for the sake of discipline back then. But it’s all very different now. I think teachers are taught to understand children with learning disabilities a lot better.
“There’s nothing worse than another person having power over you by bullying you and you not knowing how to get rid of that thing.”
Boyle — who releases her debut album later this month — recently revealed that she feels like Cinderella since becoming famous.
“I suppose it’s a bit of a Cinderella story, isn’t it?” Boyle, 48, told Weekend magazine of her instant rise to stardom.
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