These times can feel like the End Days.
Visions get dark. Paranoia blooms.
The cutting winds of austerity blow cruelly through our classrooms. We can’t not be aware of the omni-shambles around us, of a recent UN report that the UK is “a nineteenth workhouse”, a calculated “social calamity” – and getting worse.
We seem to be running out of any effective language to explore this tragedy. Moreover, we seem to have failed to equip our pupils with the tools to survive the treacheries of language.
It gets darker.
Maybe English teachers are especially complicit in this failure? Isn’t the subject meant to inoculate pupils against this avalanche of cant, to nourish reflection, empathy, clarity and cool analysis?
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