I don't like labels but being a 'Minority' in my youth was not my fault........

There is the fact that it has many meanings that mostly are ignored, pushing the negative but sometimes it is, decision makers deciding what's 'Best' (That word grinds my wires as it's another misused word) for what 'they' want, not what's best for the people that their 'Best' isn't 'Best'.

My early education in the early 70's was normalish in the UK, a blur now but my High School (From 11yrs to 16) was Ducie High School, an old Military Hospital.

I remember those doors and also remember having to leave and move to another School because I was white, it was so 'Multicultural' they ran out of space for the lowest 'culture', regardless of the students feelings or desires of course, it's 'Best' so they said....

I was sent to a white majority school for my last year, I lasted 2 weeks from what I remember, there are no memories, no friends, no chance, now headed for my real education but sad I never got to end my school days at my real school, closed now, beautiful classrooms replaced by not so rooms for strangers, where we were taught Algebra by the classic, 'Throw old wooden blackboard wiper thing at our heads' method, it was memorable.

I didn't want to move, I don't think I even needed to, what was the rush to get rid of us! We only had a year left, the education was the same, although we had, music, any instrument pretty much, Athletics was encouraged, we did everything, Running, Javelin, the whole Olympic bundle, it was fantastically fun, we really were fit, as we're not doing labels, Obesity is a freind of processed food, a relatively modern food process for the masses but wrongly encouraged, so having to run back to the School from the grass sports field on occasion, which was a Bus ride away, was not so fun but we were outside of the classroom, there were Darkrooms, real Science experiments, when I've shown the breaking a wooden ruler with a newspaper thing no one has ever seen it, what do they teach in schools these days?

Some anonymous decision spoiled my education and school experience, as I rode on the top of the bus on the way to my 2 week vacation, going past the old Violin Teachers house, where he moved to when he left the school wihen the offer of private lessons fell on 4 deaf lugs, oh what could have been....