: About Me

Mind your language! Last July I entered my 25th year as a qualified teacher and at the time I thought about celebrating it by starting a campaign. There's not a day goes by when I'm not astounded or dismayed by the vernacular of our education system and a change is long overdue. Some of the detail of the language that we use daily needs an urgent review. Permit me to give you a tiny example. My present job enables me to visit a number of schools to work with individual young people whose life- experience has presented them with educational difficulties. These young people are exclusively f...