Peter Hitchens
8th May 2010
The gruesome case of the teacher Peter Harvey, deliberately enraged by a classroom full of feral savages, then publicly persecuted by our boneheaded injustice system, continues to haunt me.
Here is a gifted and conscientious man, admired by many of his former pupils, forced to earn his bread by daily facing a version of Hell.
Can you imagine being a dedicated teacher, who loves his subject and wants to communicate it, spending your days with loping, yelling, sneering louts, male and female, who the products of our rich, indulgent, post-marriage, post-Christian society have no idea how to behave and no wish to learn?