Working in a school where most of my classes have behavioural or learning difficulties brings multiple challenges
Melissa floats around the English department at 3.50pm, not wanting to go home. She lives between her alcoholic mother – who spits at and abuses her – and her nan, who also looks after her five younger siblings and never speaks to her. I give her a novelty cow pencil, which delights her, and she goes on her way. I load my bag full of two sets of year 8 books and go home to mark them, finishing at around 9pm.
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