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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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44 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Format: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!
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!
51 of 54 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
'Frank Chalk' has done the unthinkable - exposed the horrors of our modern education system: violence, drugs, truancy, illiteracy and the absurd impotence of teachers when it comes to dealing with these issues.
I find his attitudes a little right-wing for my taste but he fully justifies himself and is a likeable author. His writing boldly highlights just how badly we are letting down children in this country, and makes me fearful for what society will be like as today's generation of schoolkids grows up.
Delivered in a light-hearted anecdotal style, this book is very accessible. I'll definitely be passing it round my friends - time spent on the bookshelf is time wasted, because if enough people read it you never know - something might start to change!
I find his attitudes a little right-wing for my taste but he fully justifies himself and is a likeable author. His writing boldly highlights just how badly we are letting down children in this country, and makes me fearful for what society will be like as today's generation of schoolkids grows up.
Delivered in a light-hearted anecdotal style, this book is very accessible. I'll definitely be passing it round my friends - time spent on the bookshelf is time wasted, because if enough people read it you never know - something might start to change!
61 of 65 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I spent several highly stressful and completely pointless years teaching in the UK system before, thank God, returning to International School education. Like Frank here, I was stunned that the fourth largest economy in the world was educating its children in a manner more suited to the occupational therapy wing of a South American prison. Why don't any of the photocopiers ever work? Why spend millions on computers and then omit to employ any trained staff to maintain them? Why are staffrooms in such a neglected state that they would cause strike action at a Ukrainian pig farm? Why spend thousands of man hours writing, distributing and training in various disciplinary policies which are then perpetually ignored? I could go on for pages. Buy this book, make everyone you know read it and then post it to your MP.
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A Real Eye Opener
I read this book straight through.
It's a great read and gives you a 'fly on the wall' look inside the classroom presided over by the world weary Frank Chalk. Read more
It's a great read and gives you a 'fly on the wall' look inside the classroom presided over by the world weary Frank Chalk. Read more
Published 12 hours ago by Little Miss Bookworm
Miserable git
I work in the education system and come across old gits like this every now and again.
Book had a few funny moments, but to be honest, it's little more than a whine. Read more
Book had a few funny moments, but to be honest, it's little more than a whine. Read more
Published 4 days ago by Heaton
At Last the truth is out
I found that school just taught us to shut up and dont ask questions.No one would ever have just slammed their book down on the desk and screamed out `I don't understand please... Read more
Published 7 days ago by Machine
'Frank Chalk'
Mixed feelings about this book. Yes to more consistent discipline, respect, manners,to our fellows in society, in school etc.
'Chalk'? Read more
'Chalk'? Read more
Published 23 days ago by john walsh
not for the faint hearted
This was a very disturbing book, especially if you have children at school which luckily I don't. I can't believe it's as bad a picture as he paints but this is not the first book... Read more
Published 26 days ago by e williams
Amusing and honest...
Some years ago I worked as a teaching assistant in a local secondary school and it was a real eye-opener. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Molehill
Laugh or cry?
A couple of pages in and I was hooked. For anyone working in a comprehensive secondary this is a devastatingly hillarious look at the daily occurances we face in school. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Lolo
Entertaining and true
Found the book very entertaining and as a secondary school maths teacher found most of it ringing true.
Just a note to readers that not all state schools are like this though! Read more
Just a note to readers that not all state schools are like this though! Read more
Published 1 month ago by Martin Chard
We need more people to speak out against the system!
Four years ago as a young, fresh teacher I once fell for the leftist thwarped 'vision' of 'understanding' young people and making excuses for their shocking behaviour, now I can... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Princesslianne
Scary insight into public school life
When I started reading this title I couldn't believe what I was seeing, is this really what public schools are like nowadays?!? Read more
Published 2 months ago by steve0903
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