Actually I loathe ‘Memory’, although some of the other songs in Cats are good fun – but something compelled me to write that there, and now that final repeated melodic phrase is firmly wedged between my ears for the rest of the day. It does, however, seem somehow an appropriate theme tune for the position in which many teachers find themselves as the new academic year begins: jaded, slightly helpless, but dogged and defiant. It's been an extraordinary year, but somehow all those students are going to get back to school and, with a host of new and complicating restrictions no doubt in place, we're all going to get on with it.
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