'Twenty five years a teacher. If I'd committed a double murder I'd have
done less time.'A scabrously funny look inside the classroom from a
teacher who has had enough of a system that is on its knees and with
morale at rock-bottom. Intoning his mantra of 'July, July, July!' the
anonymous author - still a serving secondary school teacher - ranges
over his teaching career from his student practice to the present day:
from colleagues praying for a minor heart attacks so they can get six
months paid leave and a foot in the door of early retirement, to the
increasing alienation of young people and the alarming rise in mental
health issues and self-harming.
Reasoning that it's either
laugh or cry, this teacher does both. Heartfelt and seriously funny,
Class War is a diary account written as therapy, and an inside look like
no other at the pressure-cooker that is a secondary school.
Hilarious, heart-breaking and impassioned, this is a book about the
value and importance of good teachers and good schools in a world where
lack of resources and ever increasing demands place intolerable strains
on them, Class War is a heartfelt portrait of the profession of teaching
and a state education system where no one should be left behind but too
many are.
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Class War : A Teacher's Diary - Anonymous
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