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Third Rail from alecweston Pro 136 days old
I have been thinking about the two or three months after I was expelled from school - on the last day of my last term. Usually - including elsewhere ...
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You make me feel so young from alecweston Pro 239 days old
[ ... ] - Blogging on this site is very much like being back at School. And if I don't get any Comments to this I'll know I have been Sent to Coventry.
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What's in a name? from alecweston Pro 316 days old
A newly built primary school in Sheffield had to decided not to include "school" in its title, to avoid "negative connotations". Instead, it will "The ...
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Playing Virgin Soldiers from alecweston Pro 388 days old
Here is a post from more than 2 years back Sundays were bad days at my Public (ie boarding, private) School. The day before we had to dress up as soldiers ...
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memory in passing from alecweston Pro 441 days old
At boarding school, aged 11, I rode a bicycle into my classroom just after the beginning of a lesson. Before I rode in, I thought it was going to be ...
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parents broken from alecweston Pro 711 days old
When I was at school in the fifties, I was the only child whose parents were divorced. I was a curiosity, if not a freak. I felt awkward, separate, ...
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Making a man of me? Perhaps a monkey from alecweston Pro 1003 days old
My father sent me to an expensive all- boy boarding school - a sort of second rate Eton. "It's got a reputation for teaching manners," he explained. ...
