From My Grandmother's Files: Colonialist Childhood, Part 2
by Shirley A. Littleford Johnsen, edited by Kirsten Ellen Johnsen
My sister, age six, was tutored by a Canadian former schoolteacher, who also gave lessons to the six-year-old daughter of the Mine Superintendent. My two brothers were enrolled in the Government School, which was largely attended by Afrikaaner children. British born youngsters were usually sent off to boarding schools. I, on the other hand, managed to escape going to school at all for almost a year. My excuse was that Mother needed my help, but it was also my abhorrence of the idea of going to an all-girl boarding school.
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