Last year, it was revealed that teachers are branding thousands of children racist or homophobic following playground squabbles.
More than 20,000 pupils aged 11 or younger were put on record for so-called hate crimes such as using the word ‘gaylord’.
Boy, my grade school classmates and I (late 1940's, early 1950's) would all still be in jail; we just called 'em queers or faggots. And there were a few who'd go out hunting for them to beat them up.
I just stayed away from them.