For a time, when I taught in a big Midlands comprehensive, I took part in a car share with two colleagues who lived near me. Three irreverent young teachers together made for a good commute, especially on the homeward leg.
We were always armed for the trip with great stories, because we never met during the school day. We worked in different departments, you see, and had we not travelled together I doubt whether we would have even met except at the staff Christmas Party.
That kind of separation is endemic in big schools; indeed I have always believed that a secondary school is not so much a single community as a loosely held-together federation of subject departments.
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