Rose Coloured Glasses

A few things about my time as a teenager :-

1. I had my arm broken by a bully at school.
2. Paedophiles were known by us all. But we never told our parents.
3. There was a tremendous amount of violence on the council estate near us.
4. We never had any respect for bad teachers.
5. You never saw a policeman.

This was not a few years ago, but the late fifties and early sixties at Minchenden Grammar School in leafy Southgate in North London. The school was the top grammar school in the area!

So get real all you politicians! Life wasn’t so rosy all those years ago. It’s just we talk about it more!