![f0082-01.jpg](https://article-imgs.scribdassets.com/832jyetfi8c0awir/images/file0ZWSYJW1.jpg)
AS a kid in the seventies I tried – and failed – to cope with my troubled displacement from the inner London I loved to the suburbs that I didn’t.
A pair of new, out-of-town schools beckoned. To be fair, the first was happy and glorious – not least because the atmosphere and teaching were effective enough for some pupils