Now, I am a good teacher (I don’t believe in false modesty) and I’ve have been a good teacher even in one of those garden variety secondary schools, but I doubt I’d have enjoyed teaching. Would I have stayed though. I’d like to think I would have – probably not as long as I have in my current school, where I’ve stayed on beyond normal retirement age – doing that in a school you didn’t love would be going well beyond the call of duty. But, yes, I think I’d have stayed whether I enjoyed it or not, as long as I believed I was making a positive difference for some of the students. A teacher isn’t there to enjoy themselves, they’re there for the kids. Or they should be.

 

 

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