It’s simple enough, just ask the school to say how many children over the years have registered from the same flats and houses in Grazebrook, Barbauld, Carysfort, Burmah or Springdale roads and then the address is changed before their child makes October of year 7. Then magicly they have ‘moved’ to ‘just off’ Cazenove, Brook or Allerton roads. No science would be involved and it is the most open secret imaginable with flats rented for that very purpose year, after year, after year and the whole thing giggled [

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When I was about 9 my teacher told me I was spelling my name incorrectly when I wrote MCNEILL and told me it must be MCNIELL. She gave me ‘lines’ and made me write it out this way 200 times; so I dutifully started writing this. My Dad saw this spelling on my new exercise book and complained to the school saying that he had sent me to school and, as a result, I could no longer spell my own [

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