A roller-coaster ride fuelled by panic, creativity, outrage and coffee. Written and illustrated by the art teacher who lived it.
Josie Ashton is a teacher, artist and writer living
in Sussex, England. This is her first book and
she drew everything on this page.
‘Lucid, wry and urgent.Melissa Benn
A bloody good read.’
72-hour working weeks.
674 teenage students, 63 percent of them ‘underachieving’.
Non-stop pressure from parents and managers.
‘Second’ teaching subjects multiplying like rabbits.
Creativity strangled by reams of red tape.
Daily doses of contagious, explosive, undiluted joy.
Welcome to the life of a secondary-school art (and English, and French) teacher.
A no-holds-barred account of Britain’s teaching crisis, this is also a story about one person’s search for meaning, purpose and belonging.
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