Poppy is in the 9th year and is deemed by official criteria to be an average or below average student. She’s meant to do something about this, work terrifically hard and have a nervous breakdown.
Ever since Michael Gove’s marvellous, nay, immortal edict that all pupils must be “above average”, it is simply not good enough. Some whizzo academies with super-maniac heads achieve this, but I’m afraid I never managed to drag my lot above the median.
Many of my pupils, I’m afraid, just sunk into a swamp of mediocrity, never really surfacing above the Gove’s average. Someone’s got to do it. However hard they toiled, however hard I cooked the books, they just didn’t achieve lift-off and cross the line.
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