(Re)Imagining A World In Which No Child Is Left Behind. The Relationships and Experiences of a Looped Classroom

The school had been selected on the advice of my father's greatest friend, Colonel Rutherford, whose own son was a pupil there. It was arranged that a day or two before going to school I should proceed to Rutherford's home, so as to travel down with him; and accordingly, in due time, I was dispatched with my luggage to Everton Grange in Wiltshire, where the Rutherfords lived. I was greeted most kindly on my arrival, and found it a very different household from that which I had left behind, the only point of resemblance being the fact that Bob was an only child. Colonel Rutherford and his wife, Lady Florence, were both of them amiable and society-loving, and the dinner table, at which Bob and I were given seats, presented a great contrast, with the lively conversation which took place there, to the silent and gloomy meals I had been condemned to at home. I found that it had been arranged for me to sleep with Bob for the sake of the company, and I was not altogether displeased at the prospect. He was a fairly big and well-built clad of sixteen, pleasant-mannered and good-looking, and I took a liking to him from the first ...»