In the supermarket recently I was surveyed on my shopping experience. After the usual questions about ranges of products and value for money, the employee from the marketing company carrying out the survey, having checked my age, finally asked my occupation.
“Retired, at least semi-retired,” I responded.
“Okay, at what did you work before you retired?”
“I was a teacher.”
Never has admitting my profession excited such a powerful response. She told me that her company had been carrying out research on Curriculum for Excellence on behalf of a Scottish government agency, surveying learners, parents and teachers and that in the course of that work she had experienced some of the rudest behaviour she had ever met. “And it wasn’t from the pupils or the parents,” she asserted.
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