Humiliating this student superseded the risk of discouraging her from staying in school.
Rather than discouraging her, the experience turned her resolve to achieving greatness in the air.
She has said, however, according to people with knowledge of her account, that she felt that Major Day was discouraging her from going forward with the case.
Louise Blake took her troubles to Mrs. Compton, Blake knew, and instead of discouraging her crying jags, Mrs. Compton had come to imagine herself a sort of confessor and had developed a lively curiosity about the Blakes' intimate affairs.
Franklin claimed that although teachers and administrators were aware of the harassment to which other students were also subjected they did nothing to stop it, even discouraging her from bringing charges against Hill.
The Ottomans thought her a spy, and the British made a show of discouraging her from venturing into unsafe territory, while also hoping to benefit from the information she gathered.
