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Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about where I am in life (probably a mid-life crisis thing) and about my schooldays (probably because I’ve been in touch with a few of my old ’schoolchums’, recently), but mainly about the correlation between the two. I’ve aways credited my school - the Duke of York’s Royal Military School - with helping me get to where I am, but the more I think about it, maybe I should credit my school with hampering me from getting to where I could have been. It could have all turned out so differently, if only I’d had a […]

So, my kids’ school is closing down.  I don’t want to get all concerned-parent-launches-Save-Our-Schools-campaign, but there are certain aspects to this that really burn my ass.  The school (The British Primary School, in Vossem (near Brussels) in Belgium) has been running for thirty years.  Last year the original (and now aged) founders decided that it was about time they retired, and sold it to an ‘educational company’ called WCLS (World Class Learning Schools and Systems). 
The announcement of the closure was made by Charlie Freer, the US-based Finance Director of WCLS, who flew over especially so he could tell us all […]