I’m outside a pharmacy queueing for pills which apparently prevent death. I’m masked, gloved, gelled, sanitised, pretty “alert” in a good solid British commonsensical sort of way – and socially distancing like billyho.
“This home schooling’s doing me in,” says someone.
“One morning and I’m knackered,” replies their friend.
“How do teachers do it?”
“After a week I was on “Spiderman”.
I feel smug under the mask.
“Thirty in a class.”
“It must really hard.”
It is.
Teaching is complex, difficult, demanding.
It’s what we do.
“Thank goodness for the internet.”
Now there is some terrific educational stuff online for the plague season – and none better than The Big Read of Coleridge’s The Ancient Mariner by 40 artists, actors and musicians (www.ancientmarinerbigread.com).
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