We had a wide view of another school, tower-block apartments, and a large natural-gas storage plant.
In high school, towering above his classmates and teachers at 6 feet 3 inches tall, he passionately debated how to rid African-Americans of their second-class status.
Fettes College – an £11,000-a-term Hogwarts-lookalike public school – towered over my shitty state school, a dramatic reminder of the wealth disparity that still exists in Edinburgh, where 45,000 people live in areas ranked among the most deprived parts of Scotland, a country whose wealthiest 10percentt own nearly half the nation's wealth.
Francis Gilbert (@wonderfrancis) says his son's school in Tower Hamlets, east London, will be without teachers next Wednesday.
Violet Markey encounters Theodore Finch on top of the school bell tower and he's on the other side of the fence.
From there he went to teach at the Phoenix school in Tower Hamlets, east London, which caters for pupils with special needs.
(And perhaps the only thing fancier than having gone to boarding school — Mr. Tower went to public school — is having an ancestor two or more generations before you who went to boarding school).
Young Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinshe (she changed her surname to Coel when she was told that would never catch on) was the only black pupil in her year at primary school in Tower Hamlets, an isolated girl who bullied others.
Ofsted also said it had uncovered evidence at Sir John Cass, a Church of England secondary school in Tower Hamlets, of girls and boys being segregated during breaks and lunchtime and of the school leadership ignoring warnings by the police that sixth-formers were using social media sites bearing the school's name to post links "to individuals associated with extremist views and actions".
Teachers at local schools have told me about the increase in pupils attending top universities – Stepney Green school in Tower Hamlets, east London, even has a hall of fame dedicated to pupils who went on to Oxbridge, though, at the moment, there are only enough pictures to fill a noticeboard rather than a hall.
"It was a terrible decision and there's no question that the situation is on the slide and deteriorating," says Chris Dunne, formerly the long-serving head at Langdon Park school in Tower Hamlets, east London, and currently chair of the newly formed London Headteachers Alliance.
