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Teacher Misery: Helicopter Parents, Special Snowflakes and Other Bullshit
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Teacher Misery lays out the absurd side of modern classroom life through a mix of short stories, personal essays and real messages exchanged with parents, pupils and school leaders. Jane Morris draws on her years in the classroom to show how the job has changed, offering episodes that range from the unbelievable to the unsettling. Among them are a family that blames a teacher for their son's arson, and a student who proposes lessons in selling drugs as a way for a struggling teacher to make ends meet. The collection is funny and bruising in equal measure, and it asks readers, teachers or not, to consider how schools have arrived at this point.
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