July 7, 2017

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Our country needs good teachers. I am not going to be one of them.

“That’s not going to be me,” I sniffed, as I read the statistics. Half of all new teachers leave within the first five years. But not me. I was different. How smug I was. Five years? I barely made a term. At 31, after a career in international development, managing projects in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, I took a break and spent a year studying Chinese in Nanjing. I would indulge my inner Rudd and brush up on my...