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Michelle Daly: Left Out
Michelle was born in 1972 in Newham, London. She attended a local special school from age five until sixteen and then went on to a local mainstream college.
Here Michelle describes her experience of PE at school.
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Transcript
Even at PE, they'd do PE and I had to sit on the sideline because they'd say 'The sports is gonna cause your bones to break'. Well why have activities that I couldn't join in?Explore more
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