Despite the best efforts of the press to portray teachers as beautiful individuals raring to get back to the classroom, the sad reality is sitting in a potting shed with a pile of marking. The truth is closer to Worzel Gummidge, after a twenty-year diet of coffee and regret. Likewise, partners of teachers have demanded to know ‘why can’t you look that sexy or awake?’ Commented one nervous Union Rep: ‘It’s not that we don’t want to get back to the classroom, it’s just that we don’t want it to be a stopover before the crematorium.’
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