The Saint Helena High School for Wayward Girls Incident Log

So….continuing on with my black and white, here is another for the ‘Saint Helena High School for Wayward Girls’, Incident Log…

Incident Number 3 ~ The Detention Room Debacle

Three of the usual suspects, Charlotte, Kate, and Stephanie had been put on report for a variety of small offences, and at a staff meeting it was decided that an afternoon’s hard work in the Detention Room, running through to an hours staying behind, on a Friday afternoon might teach them a lesson.

So extra work was arranged for them, and seeing as it is only down the corridor from me, I agreed to supervise them. I set them going, left them working, with the door open. I left my study door open and told them in no uncertain terms that any noise would not be tolerated.

I settled down to do some invoices and accounts, peace reigned, I was almost, slightly impressed by their behavior.

Then the whispering began, and at my distance, I did not hear a thing, just the tip of my Parker Fountain Pen scratching at the ledger, and the ticking of my ‘Smiths’ oak, classroom clock. It was quite comforting,