In the Excluded: Kicked Out of School series, Thomas's dad says: ‘These days you need an education. When I was growing up you just needed a shovel in your hand, them days are gone'.
Do schools do enough to prepare students to go out into the ‘real world’?
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When I tell people here that I didn't have any schooling from age 13 they assume I was home schooled.