The TA comes up to me with a worried look on her face; she is due to extract pupils from my lesson for individual reading practice. The (school) book she has been handed by her first pupil, who has reading difficulties, contains the word w**ker – and on further examination, most of the rest of the text seems to consist of street slang. She expresses both her personal discomfort and her concern that this is not the way to help children struggling to read. Having gone away to question the wisdom of using the book, she returns with the instruction, “That’s just what kids read these days.” I despair.
Some days later, I’m leading a CPD session on some computer software, which promptly malfunctions. One young teacher calls for my help, but it seems to be a glitch in the program and I’m stumped as to what to do. “That’s…
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The Echo Chamber 