It's Your Time You're Wasting
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Language: English
Published by Monday, 2006
Series: Book 1 of 3 - Frank Chalk
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- Title
- It's Your Time You're Wasting
- Author
- Frank Chalk
- Publisher
- Monday
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- 46781395
- Signed
- 4/21/2026 4:03:27 PM
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0955285402
- ISBN 13
- 9780955285400
- Edition
- 1776787407.
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: Frank Chalk
- Seller catalogs
- 3, 9780955285400, U
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.
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.
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