I find it rather ironic that Christopher whittaker now has a PhD. Don’t get me wrong, its brilliant. Its marvellous, and I don’t begrudge him it for a millisecond. Chris went to Hebden, but of memory serves he was mainstreamed after nursery school. He’s my age, and has cp, but of a milder kind than mine. The amusing part is, his mum is the deputy head of Hebden. Imagine that: her own school too bad for her son. She saw that he was properly educated, didn’t she? I’m sorry, but its hard not to be cynical. when I think of what most of my fellow ex-hebdonians are doing (Which, you’ll understand, I’d rather not go into for confidentiality reasons) it’s enough to make you sick.

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