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Bullying
Clenton Farquarson: ‘Slow Learner’
Clenton Farquarson was born in Birmingham in 1964. He grew up in Birmingham and went to his local mainstream schools.
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Here Clenton describes being teased because of the group he was in.
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Transcript
One of the things that I felt was wrong, everyone knew at school what group we were in. Because we had this A, B, C, D gradings, everyone knew we were the 'dunce group', the 'slow learners', and school for me was painful, because kids can be – kids can be cruel and going through school I ended up fighting a lot because I was teased a lot about being a slow learner.Explore more
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