A paper dart floats across the classroom somewhere in London.
The teacher is with an 11th year English GCSE class. The dart lands by the teacher’s desk. She pays it little attention. She is keen to carry on with Shelley’s Ozymandias, from the AQA Power and Conflict cluster – and so are the class. She is using an extract from Breaking Bad as a stimulus and it has worked a treat.
Another dart flies across the classroom.
The teacher demands that the culprit pick them up. The boy, shaved, neat and Muslim, gets up and puts them on her desk. He is truculent and sullen. He is a chump and a clot. He slowly sits down.
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