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It's Your Time You're Wasting: A Teacher's Tales of Classroom Hell - Frank Chalk

Description: ISBN 0955285402 / Genre: Biography / Author: Frank Chalk / Paperback / 226 Pages / Book is published 2006-09-02 by Monday Books

Newest Review: ... grasp of the simplest concepts, and have no desire to learn anything more. As a non-permanent member of staff he is able to ... more

... stay aloof from the internal politics of the school and bring a unique perspective to the issues that schools face in an educational system that seems rapidly to be spiralling into chaos. Highly cynical and obviously frustrated, there is nevertheless a ring of truth to his stories and the picture he paints is not a pretty one. From abusive parents to uncaring and uncared for students, his anecdotes cover the whole colourful spectrum of a classroom career. His view that the current education system is letting down ou...more

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It's Your Time You're Wasting: A Teacher's Tales of Classroom Hell - Frank Chalk: Is this the reality of our schools? (663 words)
by - written on 21/04/09 (Very useful, 120 readings)
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I've just re-read this book, in preparation starting a PGCE course this Sept. so have fished out an old review I wrote for Waterstones.com last year and updated it to share here... First things first, would be teachers should think carefully before reading this book - it is NOT encouraging to anyone planning to enter the profession. I'm still, naively and stubbornly, refusing to believe that it really is all that bad and that the holidays aren't a fantastic bonus but if anything could put me off now I think it would be the truth. And that is exactly what Frank Chalk (nice name for a teacher, unfortunately not his real one!) claims to be laying out in this ... Read the complete review