September’s Teacher Education Days always create a strange emotion for those of us desperately trying to preserve that holiday feeling: flip-flops with no socks, clothing defiantly donned in spite of the rain, newly earned tans, and obligatory shorts – despite it being wetter and 15°C cooler than it was in the Isle of Wight.
Then there is Ray, an experienced geography teacher and NASUWT representative, who is sharply dressed in his suit – his ongoing protest that “our holiday has been shortened by five days”.
This protest has been ongoing since 1988 when Baker Days were named after – but not in reverence to – another Conservative education secretary, Kenneth Baker.
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