Teacher on the Run: True Tales of Classroom Chaos - Hardcover

Gilbert, Francis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904977030 ISBN 13: 9781904977032

Publisher: Short Books Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

After three years of teaching at Truss, and inner-city sink school, Francis Gilbert has been offered a job in the English department at his old school, a nice suburban comprehensive. Like a prisoner out of Colditz, he fells like he's just landed a job in toytown. But, with Mr Morgan, the deaf old English teacher, still cackling, the staff room politics in tatters, alarming complaints from the parents and, worst of all, the memories of his own disturbed childhood suddenly rushing back at him, how long can Gilbert's dreamland last?

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Review:

"Gilbert writes so well that you half suspect he could give up the day job" The Independent"

About the Author:

Gilbert is back and he's glad to be back. After three years of teaching at Truss, an inner-city sink school, Francis Gilbert has been offered a job in the English department at his old school, a nice suburban comprehensive. Like a prisoner out of Colditz, he feels like he's just landed a job in toytown. But, with Mr Morgan, the deaf old English teacher, still cackling, the staff room politics in tatters, alarming complaints from the parents and, worst of all, the memories of his own disturbed childhood suddenly rushing back at him, how long can Gilbert's dreamland last? Francis Gilbert is head of English at a London comprehensive. He lives in East London with his wife and son. His first book, I'm a Teacher GET ME OUT OF HERE!, was published by Short Books in 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: Short Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1904977030
• ISBN 13: 9781904977032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224