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After 32 years

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Alex Wood was flabbergasted. Despite the 32 years, he remembered him ― a delightful wee lad who always looked in need of a good meal...

After they are published in SecEd, I normally post my columns on the LinkedIn social network. It provides colleagues who perhaps do not see SecEd with a chance to read them.

In June, one of my columns was headed Three types of poor teachers. It evaluated a proposal to introduce five year, fixed-term contracts to weed out poor teachers. I posted it on LinkedIn and almost immediately had a response from a former pupil.

“And you are deffinatly (sic) 1 of the good teachers. How are you, Alex? It must be, oh, about 32 years since I sat in your classroom falling asleep. You’re looking well!”

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