I did one of my teaching practices in a remote Lincolnshire village in 1968.

The thing at the the time was heuristic learning, the children taught themselves by looking at their own environmant. S o the thing to do in an old school was to throw open the school logbook.

I suggested this to the the elderly headmaster, and he explained in as kindly a manner as possible that would not be possible. most of the children I would be teaching had families who had been run in and reprimanded for incest, under age sex, gawd knows what.

Later that year the kindly old Headmaster was fired for inappropriate sexualised behaviour with the children.

I'm not saying your wrong. But maybe - people just weren't on the lookout for it, Lizzie. that stuffwas certainly going on.

Yousee some kids were reckoned to be working men by they were fifteen. the past is a different country. My Mum was working in an office and iot was full of fifyeen year old girls. this was in the days before computers. letters and envelopes were typed.

I was in the posh grammar school, yet one of my classmates in thethird year had to leave to get a job, and support his child got with one of the girls in my Mum's office.

well it was all going on in Lincolnshire - I guess you just missed out.