Attitudes

Zara Todd: Don’t Bother

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 recalls the negative attitude of her English teacher.

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Transcript

I remember just before I left the middle school, to add to the headmaster’s wonderful comments, my English teacher turned around to me and said that I wouldn’t get a single GCSE so she didn't know why I was bothering.

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