“Miss Caroline… had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks and wore bright crimson finger-nail polish. She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red=and-white striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop.”
When, as an early teen, I read this description of Scout Finch’s teacher in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the image which sprang to mind [...]
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Contrary to Reports
Published December 13th, 2007 in Education and Personal Reminiscence. 0 CommentsDoing the Headteacher Hustings
Published November 13th, 2007 in Education and Personal Reminiscence. 0 CommentsIt seems to have spread like bird flu. First Mumble’s headteacher went and now I hear that other nearby heads are leaving, replacing, shifting.
Which means that people are having to be busy bunnies sifting applications and sitting on interview boards. In my previous life and in a very different field, I sat on a good few [...]
Let us Now Praise Famous Teachers*
Published November 12th, 2007 in Personal Reminiscence and Uncategorized. 3 Comments(*with apologies to the author of Sirah (Ecclesiasticus) 44:1)
In my very first posting, I expressed my concern about the potential for unprofessionality amongst staff who might read these parent blogs. This week, Don Ledingham has been considering a hypothetical dilemma involving parents using these blogs to criticise teachers.
Time for a bit of the positive…
I wanted to [...]
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