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Bog Standard: The True Story of Life at the Chalkface by Daniel Ken (Paperback, 2008)

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Title: Bog Standard Item Condition: used item in a good condition. Author: Daniel Ken ISBN 10: 1906032181. Edition: - List Price: -.

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A single father. No love life. And the teaching job from hell...Daniel Ken hated school, and school hated him. He left at 16 fora succession of dead-end jobs punctuated by bouts ofunemployment where he'd inhabit the local library and read hisway through every classic novel he could get his hands on.Motivated to reclaim his education he took short courses, adegree in English, then a Masters and then did what he sworehe'd never do - he returned to the classroom.to start with, things went well. But then his wife left him for hisboss, and Daniel ended up bringing up his seven-year-old son,Joe, on his own, and swapping his cushy grammar school job forthe teaching position no-one else would take - the bottom classat the bottom 'bog standard' comprehensive in the area.But in a classroom full of ASBOs and ADD, Daniel found himselffacing the sort of students he once was himself, and learning asmuch from them as they were from him. And in the library, wherehe once learnt to love books, he's about to fall in love all overagain...