"Having to get up and read in class when I couldn’t make sense of the words felt like a fate worse than death.” That’s how the late Ozzy Osbourne described life at school while growing up in Birmingham.
To read about what he endured is to be sickened, and to want to wring the necks of those prone to describing the halcyon, care-free days of childhood. Sorry, but childhood is frequently brutal precisely because whether private or public, education is largely one size fits all. Imagine having to do every day what has little or nothing to do with the skills and intelligence unique to you.
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