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You Must Be Crazy

by Heather Lindsay

62 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-1052; ISBN 1-4251-2956-0; US$13.54, C$15.58, EUR10.56, £7.00

Why and how I had the option of altering the course of my teaching career from being a head of department in a grammar school to establishing a 'special class' for boys with behavioural or emotional problems in a deprived area.

About the Book

When the grammar school in which I was teaching was amalgamated with the local secondary modern school to become a comprehensive school of over a thousand pupils many problems were caused by the less able 14 year olds who were sent to the former grammar school and labelled 8th. stream. I took over as their form teacher and had to develop a different approach to teaching. During the years course in 'The Education of Maladjusted Children' I had to decide whether or not to risk changing the direction of my teaching career so radically.

About the Author

After twenty-six years as a grammar school teacher the school in which I was a head of department was united with the local secondary modern school to become a comprehensive school. After two very difficult years I was appointed the form teacher of thirty fourteen-year-olds, fifteen boys and fifteen girls, who were sent to our school and labelled 8th. stream. It coincided with both my children leaving home which left a great void but which at least gave me time and energy to learn a new approach to education. I began to wonder whether I could work in special education full-time and, when the opportunity arose, I applied for a diploma course at the University of London in The Education of Maladjusted Children. The problem throughout the year was whether to assume that I would gain the diploma and, if so, whether to alter the direction of my professional career or return to my original post which was being held open for me.