Jane Campbell: Torn to the Ground

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I would stop any kind of exclusive, exclusion services. I would not have one special school in the land. I would throw all the resources from these schools that largely prop up the inadequacy of the teachers, I would pile all those resources into mainstream education and support people properly so they can strive to be whatever they want to be or whatever they can be. Yeah, any segregated school, club, daycentre, holiday home, anything, I would have it torn to the ground. I’d be like Henry VIII going round the monasteries and raiding them. Because exclusion has done nothing but take from me. It’s given me nothing except for the – except probably for the drive. It added to my drive.

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