, < Regeneration, < New Start editorial index page When I was young and still wondering whether it was better to be called black or brown, I lived on a council estate in a stable community and went to the local junior school. By the age of ten I’d worked out the difference between a grammar school and a comprehensive school. The comprehensive was within walking distance and all your friends would go there. The grammar was two buses away, way outside my ‘travel to school’ area, and was full of middle class kids being groomed to go to university. Susan Downer, assistant editor