Teaching...
The BBC 'news' piece suggesting that many parents want the return of corporal punishment ends by reporting that the survey asked which celeb would make a good teacher in the opinion of the respondents.
The real answer? Not one of them without decent training, and several years of it.
Teaching's not something you can 'stroll into' and succeed at merely because you're a celebrity. You're trained for it, and to suggest that just because you've written a book, shagged a footballer or appeared on TV, you can walk into a classroom and control a class or create a lesson plan or mark work properly is a lie.
And it's an insult to the thousands of teachers, teaching assistants and others who work in schools day after day, week after week, term after term, pouring their guts, their souls and their lives into teaching our children.
The real answer? Not one of them without decent training, and several years of it.
Teaching's not something you can 'stroll into' and succeed at merely because you're a celebrity. You're trained for it, and to suggest that just because you've written a book, shagged a footballer or appeared on TV, you can walk into a classroom and control a class or create a lesson plan or mark work properly is a lie.
And it's an insult to the thousands of teachers, teaching assistants and others who work in schools day after day, week after week, term after term, pouring their guts, their souls and their lives into teaching our children.