Teacher on the Run: True Tales of Classroom Chaos

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.

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?

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