With a new afterword.
'The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever
read. No-one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying' -
Philip Pullman
Kate Clanchy wants to change the world and thinks school is an excellent
place to do it. She invites you to meet some of the kids she has taught
in her thirty-year career.
Join her as she explains everything about sex to a classroom of
thirteen-year-olds. As she works in the school 'Inclusion Unit', trying
to improve the fortunes of kids excluded from regular lessons because of
their terrifying power to end learning in an instant. Or as she nurtures
her multicultural poetry group, full of migrants and refugees, watches
them find their voice and produce work of heartbreaking brilliance.
While Clanchy doesn't deny stinging humiliations or hide painful
accidents, she celebrates this most creative, passionate and practically
useful of jobs. Teaching today is all too often demeaned, diminished and
drastically under-resourced. Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught
Me will show you why it shouldn't be.
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020
