School Choices
We chose our house, 7 years ago, partly on the areas potential for class struggle. Because we are that ridiculous and left wing. Part of what informed that decision was my husbands involvement in a campaign to save a number of primary schools across the city, in which residents of the scheme had been particularly militant. The school was lost but, almost as a consolation prize, the building was repurposed as a community centre which now hosts a youth club, gym, free computers, welfare rights advice and a food bank. It has become central to the life and survival of the community. We moved in and we were not wrong to do so. We're all very happy here. Plus the residents association has recently affiliated to Living Rent. Five years later, of course, I had to register the eldest child at school and noticed, as if for the first time, that there wasn't one to send him to. I had become the only middle class mother in the world to deliberate...