A Different View with Dave O’Connell

It’s funny how – even more than 40 years after exiting the gates for the final time – the return to school for tens of thousands of students can still trigger a sense of anticipation or foreboding for those of us for whom that phenomenon should be a distant memory at best.

We try to paint it, of course, as a time of excitement as we reflect back on our own time though rose-tinted glasses – but that’s a hard sell to someone who has just enjoyed a relaxing couple of months........

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