Resistance

Zara Todd: Personal Assassination

Zara was born in 1985 in London. She attended a special school initially, then transferred to mainstream at the age of seven. She continued with mainstream education at secondary and then went on to university.

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Here Zara describes refusing to go to ‘statementing’ meetings.

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I refused to go to my statementing, statement, whatever they're called meetings after the first one I went to. And I know that’s not good policy but I just, I couldn’t stand the personal assassination that they invariably became so I thought I’d just rather not be in the room.

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