With delicious irony today is National Thank A Teacher Day. Hands up if you even knew there was such a thing? Nope, me neither.
And blimey we should thank them because most of us confronted with a class of snotty little kids or snottier teenagers would be gibbering in a corner or up for murder.
Teaching is vastly under rated, under paid and hugely stressful. And these days, given so many feckless parents, teachers also have to be social workers, psychologists, nutritionists and surrogate mums and dads.
They’re trained to educate, not deal with a child who has no idea how to dress themselves or use a knife and fork, let alone read.