Back in the late 1970's I can remember walking out of school on strike (as did all the other kids) - I can't for the life of me remember why. It wasn't just our school a lot of others did it too - can anyone remember why we did this? It happened several times and then just fizzled out, presumably the situation had been defused with a result that we accepted. We all came out together walked to neighbouring schools who also came out, so I can only assume that this was an issue across all schools in Birmingham at the time.