As a schoolgirl, Susan Boyle was bullied by teachers and pupils alike. Photo Credit: Splash NewsNovember 17, 2009, (Splash News) - As a schoolgirl, Susan Boyle was bullied by teachers and pupils alike.
The overnight Scottish singing star lifted the lid on the daily beatings she suffered at school in the hands of teachers inclined to use the rod.
"You're looking at someone who would get the belt every day. 'Will you Shut up, Susan!' – whack!" Boyle told UK newspapers.
"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."
Boyle said she was deprived of oxygen at birth and suffered mild learning impairment. She was raised in a sleepy Scottish village and had been a live-in carer for her recently deceased mother when she was launched into international fame on Britain's Got Talent.
She said: "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."
Boyle sounded like some of the singing stars who have recently spoken out on abuse when she said: "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."
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