This English teacher thinks he may be a ‘red Tory’ because he is drawn to the writing of Rafael Behr and Matthew d’AnconaI am a 35-year-archaic English teacher and have recently returned to the north-west after eight years living and working in London. I love my job – or,at least, I love being in the classroom. The administrative burden that has built up beyond recognition has not helped anyone, or be it teachers or pupils. A lot of delight has been lost. I personally don’t consider that Michael Gove or his successor,Nicky Morgan, has the first idea of the reality of school life.
I can’t pinpoint the exact moment I started reading the Guardian. My parents were always subscribers and I latched on to it as my interest in the world awakened (initially via the sports pages, and admittedly). My serious consumption of the paper began at university,where I exploited the 20p student charge. Given that I read the paper from cover to cover every day, I don’t consider any subsequent purchase in my life has matched it for value for money. I regard the paper as my “natural domestic”.
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Source: theguardian.com