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S5, Ep7 How to Fail: Meera Syal
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
The Immigrant Work Ethic
I was always the sort of, I slogged for my marks. For most things, I could get through by slogging immigrant work ethic. It didn't work with maths. No matter how much I looked at those pages, my brain did not understand it. And so every year I felt my maths exam and it just became a question of, well done, you only fell by 10 marks this year - or that was the level of disappointment and failure every year. So when you couple not understanding with that kind of teacher, I remember feeling sick before maths lessons. You said he was a racist and a sadist in your manner. Yeah, I think he was. He definitely used to
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