I’ve had children at school for 27 years. At last I can stop pretending to like it | Suzanne Moore
School's out for ever. Just one more week and I will be free. FREE! I cannot tell you how I long for the end of school. You see, in the bizarre sociological experiment that is my life, I have had one child or another in school for about 27 years, and my youngest finishes next week. I have done my time. Obviously I sacrificed my offspring for the sake of my political principles, so these were state schools, of course. I never, ever want to hear another person saying they believe in state education - but just not for their very special child. Pray that I never need to inhale the stench of that angsty hypocrisy again while some dolt explains it is only "natural" to want the best for one's children - as though I want the worst for mine.
Gentrification is there in the class pictures. Those of my eldest are racially mixed and those of my youngest are not
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