I wanted to change the world, and a state school seemed the best place to start’ the author declares in her introduction, and as a fresh faced trainee teacher over 12 years ago I know I felt the same; but for ‘state school’ read ‘drama classroom’. How many of us sometimes lose sight of that inspiring Dead Poet Society-style calling on a cold wet afternoon with year 9? This book reignites that passion through its honesty and humanity.
Kate Clanchy writes the book we probably all have in us: a candid, heart-on-sleeve account of life as a teacher. The struggles are real, undoubtedly, and although Clanchy's anecdotes are raw and personal, they are not sentimental, but powerful in their familiarity.
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