It's Your Time You're Wasting It's Your Time You're Wasting

It's Your Time You're Wasting

A Teacher's Tales of Classroom Hell

    • 4.2 • 15 Ratings
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Publisher Description

Frank Chalk is an ordinary teacher in an ordinary British school... a school where the kids get drunk, beat up the teachers and take drugs - when they can be bothered to turn up.


It's Your Time You're Wasting is the blackly humorous diary of a year in his working life.


Chalk confiscates porn, booze and errant trainers, fends off angry parents and worries about the conscientious pupils whose lives and futures are being systematically wrecked, recording his experiences in a funny and readable book.


He offers top tips for dealing with unruly kids, muses on the shortcomings of the staff (including his own) and even spots the occasional spark of hope amid all the despair.


Prepare to be horrified and amused by the unvarnished truth about the bottom end of our state education system. A must-read for parents, teachers and anyone who cares about our country's future.


From the Author:


I started out as a nice liberal bloke who thought the best of everyone. I changed, over time. This book is dedicated to the good kids - there are plenty of them, but they're being slowly crushed by the bad - and several hundred thousand hard-working teachers, who do their best against the impossible odds created by our mad, politically-correct nightmare of an education system. It's a funny book - I hope - with a serious message; the time for talking is over. We need to sort our schools out now, before it really is too late.


Frank Chalk.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2011
1 June
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
248
Pages
PUBLISHER
Monday Books
SELLER
Monday Books Limited
SIZE
1.8
MB

Customer Reviews

TrevorWestAustralia ,

Happy and Sad at the same time.

This book was a pleasure to read. The sad part was I know exactly, as a fellow Australian teacher, what each day entails. We have lost generation after generation with this so called education system we have. Though is it because a low educated population is easier to manipulate by government? I too have spent 10 years riot controlling.

Astro73 ,

Frightening but accurate

This bio is a hilarious look at the antics of St Jude's students and teachers. I feel lucky that Aussie schools (ones that I've worked at) aren't as bad.

Mel86awesome ,

It's your time you're wasting

This book is heartwarming, funny and eye opening. A great all rounder that will pull your heartstrings make you laugh out loud and shake your head with disappointment and frustration.

My heart goes out to all the people represented by this book and I truly hope that all education systems can get the resources and respect they need to education the next generation

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