{"product_id":"9780141960869","title":"To Miss with Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the whistle-blowing teacher behind the headlines: one inspirational teacher, one extraordinary year, hope and heartbreak on the front lines of an inner-city school, \u003ci\u003eTo Miss With Love\u003c\/i\u003e by Katharine Birbalsingh is the remarkable and eye opening exposé of our education system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA third of teachers leave within their first term on the job. This one wouldn't quit for all the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Furious - sixteen, handsome and completely out of control. Nothing frightens him and no one can get through to him. Now meet Munchkin - a sweet kid with glasses who's an easy target and needs protecting. Then there's Seething and Deranged, two girls who are brimming with bad attitude; Fifty and Cent, who act like gangsters but are afraid of getting beaten up; and Stoic, a brilliant young mind struggling to survive. In the midst of them all, there is a bodyguard and bouncer, a counsellor and confidante, a young woman whose job it is to motivate and inspire them and somehow keep them out of trouble: their teacher. None will make it through the year unscathed. Some may not even make it at all...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning a year of shocking truths and hard-won victories, of fights and phone-thefts, teenage pregnancies and the dreaded OFSTED report, this is the remarkable diary of an inner-city school teacher. Revealing the extraordinary chaos, mismanagement and wrong-thinking that plague our education system, it is a funny, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking journey from the frontlines of the classroom to the heart of modern Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The constant frustration, the struggle to hold on to your ideals in the face of a broken system - this book is the story of contemporary state education. It's both heart-breaking and inspiring' Toby Young\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Everyone should read this book and do a bit of re-thinking. Straight from the chalk-face - a book which explains why our kids have been failed by State Education' Rod Liddle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The teacher who laid bare the chaos in the education systems. . . by delivering some brutal home truths. . . articulate and inspirational' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Charismatic. . . .electrifying. . . This remarkable woman has neatly identified the problem with education' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatharine Birbalsingh is Britain's most outspoken and controversial teacher. Educated at a comprehensive school, she earned a degree in philosophy and modern languages at Oxford university and has taught for over a decade in inner-city schools. \u003ci\u003eTo Miss with Love \u003c\/i\u003ewas for several years an anonymous blog that exposed the reality of inner-city schools and the problems with the education system. She now writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e and has given evidence at the Commons select committee for education. Her views have sparked a national debate. www.katharinebirbalsingh.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072209469680,"sku":"9780141960869","price":14.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141960869_p0.jpg?v=1763656162","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141960869","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}