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Lack of Opportunity
Ronald Leedham: Certificates
Ronald Leedham was born in 1929 in India. His family moved back to England in 1931after Ronald contracted Polio. Ronald spent some years in Hospital as a young child after contracting Diptheria. When he was six he returned home to Catford for a short while to live with his father, eventually ending up living in ‘homes for crippled children’ run by the Shaftesbury Society, until he was sixteen.
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Here Ronald talks about having no certification for exams from his school days.
https://howwasschool.allfie.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/certificates.mp3
Transcript
We didn’t have – well at the end of each term we had an exam which I usually came near the top. I think I only came at the top once and that was in the last term there, but that didn’t really mean anything. We didn’t have – we didn’t come away with a piece of paper, it didn’t occur to them to give us a paper, I still to this day haven’t got a piece of paper that says I can read and write.Explore more
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