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Gordon Brown likes to boast that our schools are the envy of the world. Sadly - as ever - he's fibbing.
FRANK CHALK has spent his adult life in the modern education system, so - unlike the Prime Minister - he knows what he's talking about.
He is an ordinary teacher in an ordinary British school... a school where the kids get drunk, beat up the teachers and take drugs - when they can be bothered to turn up.
IT S YOUR TIME YOU'RE WASTING is the blackly humorous diary of a year in his working life.
Chalk confiscates porn, booze and errant trainers, fends off angry parents and worries about the conscientious pupils whose lives and futures are being systematically wrecked, recording his experiences in a funny and readable book.
He offers top tips for dealing with unruly kids, muses on the shortcomings of the staff (including his own) and even spots the occasional spark of hope amid all the despair.
So forget Gordon Brown's boasts - and prepare to be horrified and amused by the unvarnished truth about the bottom end of our state education system. A must-read for parents, teachers and anyone who cares about our country's future.
FRANK CHALK has spent his adult life in the modern education system, so - unlike the Prime Minister - he knows what he's talking about.
He is an ordinary teacher in an ordinary British school... a school where the kids get drunk, beat up the teachers and take drugs - when they can be bothered to turn up.
IT S YOUR TIME YOU'RE WASTING is the blackly humorous diary of a year in his working life.
Chalk confiscates porn, booze and errant trainers, fends off angry parents and worries about the conscientious pupils whose lives and futures are being systematically wrecked, recording his experiences in a funny and readable book.
He offers top tips for dealing with unruly kids, muses on the shortcomings of the staff (including his own) and even spots the occasional spark of hope amid all the despair.
So forget Gordon Brown's boasts - and prepare to be horrified and amused by the unvarnished truth about the bottom end of our state education system. A must-read for parents, teachers and anyone who cares about our country's future.
From the Author
I started out as a nice liberal bloke who thought the best of everyone. I changed, over time. I believed Blair when he said he'd sort out education. How wrong I was. This book is dedicated to the good kids - there are plenty of them, but they're being slowly crushed by the bad - and several hundred thousand hard-working teachers, who do their best against the impossible odds created by our mad, politically-correct nightmare of an education system. It's a funny book - I hope - with a serious message; the time for talking is over. We need to sort our schools out now, before it really is too late. Frank Chalk.
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An Entertaining Read,
This review is from: It's Your Time You're Wasting: A Teacher's Tales of Classroom Hell (Paperback)
I found this a most entertaining if disturbing read on a teachers experiences of trying to teach some of the most ungrateful people in the world; the modern British teenager. I have worked in the Education system in a number of roles (including classroom teacher) that a good deal of what Frank Chalk has written rings true with me and other teachers I have worked with.
The writing style is accessible, light-hearted and easy to read. The depictions of the pupils, the other teachers and the leadership team may seem to be fictional but unfortunately, they are all too real. The depiction of the parents will ring true with many teachers who have dealing with these types of people frustrating (I must admit that I hope that I never have to use Frank Chalks methods of dealing with an irate parent with self harm) and it could be argued that many of societies ills can be placed at their doors. Read the book and you will see what I mean. I would recommend this book to everyone who cares about the education of future Briton's, but also to those who think that teaching is an easy job because of the length of the holidays. Not only does it show that a teachers lot is not an easy one (not helped by lazy parents), but also that people who have not worked in education should not be allowed to make any decisions regarding its future.
42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
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It's Your Time You're Wasting: A Teacher's Tales of Classroom Hell,
By susie (Hertfordshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: It's Your Time You're Wasting: A Teacher's Tales of Classroom Hell (Paperback)
This book is witty, original and enlightening.
It's Your Time You're Wasting is the first honest book about teaching that I've ever read. It is also hilarious. I read it in two days. I highly recommend it to teachers and parents who want to know what goes on in the average comprehensive school these days. You will be amazed!
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Best Book I Have Read This Year!,
By Matt (uk) - See all my reviews
This review is from: It's Your Time You're Wasting: A Teacher's Tales of Classroom Hell (Paperback)
I taught for two years in a school like this before fleeing to the private sector. This book pulls no punches and isn't afraid to tell the real story of the modern inner city comp. I laughed so much at the various stories and the book is full of funny comments and sharp observations. He also suggests a few solutions which won't be popular with liberal readers but which make very good sense.
In short you will roar with laughter and possibly cry with anguish at what is going on in our sink schools.
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