You must make a “wider contribution to school life”. Eh? When? Like what? Like weeding the school garden, pruning some roses, driving the minibus, painting the foyer, cleaning the toilets or attending Booster Weekends for marginal halfwits

How’s your mental health? Not too good it seems, according to the Easter Teacher Conferences. Dr Mary Bousted of the ATL cites some grim statistics. More of you are going more bonkers. It’s up 38 per cent in the last two years; 55 per cent have “mental health issues”, 80 per cent “stress”, 69 per cent “exhaustion”, 57 per cent “anxiety” and 47 per cent “headaches”. Crumbs. And Jan Nielsen, of the NUT, calls Ofsted “a regime of terror”. More crumbs. 

Meanwhile Middle England call you “bloody whingers”, Daily Mail trolls suggest you “grow some” and the Gove, that paragon of mental health, deems you enemies within. Marvellous.

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