“One of my pupils had Alice horribly injured in a car accident and then caught up in a zombie outbreak. Another decided that she would become a gangster’s moll and ...
In the second of his monthly columns for Litro, short story writer and secondary school teacher Alan Gillespie discusses the difficult business of getting teenagers to sit down and do ...
I know in my heart that it was not Carol Ann Duffy’s fault. It was my own fault, and to a lesser extent the pupils I tried to teach on ...
They stare. Stare at the new guy in the cheap suit. Thirty two Glaswegian teenagers with gelled hair and fake tan, stinking of Lynx, chewing gum and fiddling with phones. ...