Did you have penpals as a child?
I had several US ones. One boy stopped writing when I mentioned liking girls. One girl wrote to me many years later as an adult, hoping that I hadn't "lost my religion".
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
No, but your question reminds me of a strange incident in my First Year of my upper school, so when I was 11. (In 1963)
We were all told to list things like our interests, family information, etc. in our lives outside school. It may even have used a form - I don't remember that, though. We were told it was part of an international pen-pal scheme, but I never heard anything more about it, and I don't think anyone else did either. I think it was really an internal routine for some school purpose I know not, perhaps a way for the teachers to know us better as people. Or even a discreet way for them to be aware of possible domestic problems that might affect us.
We were all told to list things like our interests, family information, etc. in our lives outside school. It may even have used a form - I don't remember that, though. We were told it was part of an international pen-pal scheme, but I never heard anything more about it, and I don't think anyone else did either. I think it was really an internal routine for some school purpose I know not, perhaps a way for the teachers to know us better as people. Or even a discreet way for them to be aware of possible domestic problems that might affect us.