Bin them! Ban them! decrees the Gove to all exam boards. Eh? Is this Private Eye? Or his usual whimsical malice? Or is he branching out into stand up? Who knows? Certainly not English teachers, who were, of course, never consulted. Perhaps these texts are just too enjoyable or liberal– or insufficiently difficult or punitive.
I taught Of Mice and Men so many times, I knew whole chunks by heart. I could wander round the classroom without the book and dazzle the inmates with some cheap Deep South histrionics.
“Why you speakin’ Welsh, sir?”
I still meet alumni, who quote bits at me in Ladbroke Grove. “I like beans with ketchup, sir!”
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