Beating the system
It summed up my experience of secondary education in the mid-‘70s. The pail was filled, but how the system quenched the fire!
Jim Jackman,
16, Park Drive Court,
Castleknock,
Dublin 15
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Jim Jackman,
16, Park Drive Court,
Castleknock,
Dublin 15
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