Hugh Reilly: Easter leave sets up troops for exam push
Demobbed last year, I stoically bear the pain of missing out on the unbridled joy of leaving school on a Friday for a fortnight’s respite from the cherubs.
In days gone by, one’s happiness clicked up a notch knowing that some of the slow learners/fast forgetters under one’s tutelage would be frogmarched off to Easter revision courses by parents mightily disillusioned with the academic efforts of their progeny. All faith in exam success was placed in the grubby hands of private companies eager to cash in on the well-founded fears of hitherto backsliding pupils.
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