It was autumn term 1998 and I was sat in the hall of my school in south east London. It was parents’ evening and the mood could be described as tense at best. The school wasn’t doing too well and many of the parents weren’t very happy about it.
This was my second school and by this point I had somehow managed to be leading two departments. You’d think I might have been busy on that parents’ evening. You’d be wrong. There were very few parents present, which made what happened all the more dramatic...
The SENCO was the brother of a famous television presenter and comedian. They looked and sounded exactly alike, right down to the last mannerism. The only difference – one brother was funny by profession, the other by complete accident.
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