So many young teachers are so good against so many odds. Well, my young, gun-slinging English teaching chums are. It must be tempting to just teach to the test, deliver the whole boatload of dreary targets – and take the pittance.
Well, many don’t. They are exciting and inspirational teachers, who somehow preserve the integrity and thrill of this prince of subjects. Just like the hero in the latest Secret Teacher: Dispatches from the Classroom.
It is cracking stuff and beautifully written – lyrical, sharp, demotic, sussed, fast, and tragic. Our secret teacher is cursed with empathy for his children, displays a keen awareness of social context and a deep despair for the demise of literary culture and the emergent barbarism of the market. The classroom is a sacred space. But, above all, it’s a funny one.
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