Resistance

David Bush: Us and Them

David was born in 1948 in Slough, Berkshire. After spending over two years in hospital and one year at home with a tutor, David was sent to a residential special school at the age of eight. He remained there until he was sixteen, when he attended a mainstream college.

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Here David describes the challenge of getting away with things.

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Then there was the, the challenge to, get away with as much as you could, especially in a boarding school, it was us against the establishment.

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