Tough education
Five Chinese teachers are thrown into the classrooms of a present-day British comprehensive to be met by the lack of focus and gross disrespect of teenagers in a mixed-ability class.
In the 1950s those suffering “attention deficit disorder” were separated from clever roughs like me from the housing schemes and coalfields as we were turned into academics.
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Hide AdIt is no surprise that pupils today are three years behind their Asian contemporaries – in fact they are probably three years behind their British grammar-school grandparents.
(Dr) John Cameron
Howard Place
St Andrews