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Terry Park, divorced schoolteacher, ever-hopeful novelist, independent parliamentary candidate, wants his new Common Sense Party to decry political correctness and win voters’ support by advocating common sense government.
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Trouble-prone Terry Park is a divorced forty year old teacher, a trade union member and an amateur novelist. He applies for the headship of his own school and is also persuaded by beer-drinking colleagues to stand for parliament as the sole Common Sense Party candidate. His problems multiply when he falls for an attractive, uninhibited university lecturer who seeks to abandon Britain’s “outdated” schools in favour of school-free, personalised, family-friendly tuition. When, apprehensive but infatuated, Terry supports her plan, his opponents wade in: assorted party-obedient politicians, probing journalists, bickering governors, career-minded administrators and school-dependent parents. Weary and disenchanted, Terry’s spirits sink to an all-time low until encouragement, from an unexpected source, revives them.
At times the story verges on the farcical – as during headship interviews which end in bedlam, and in the rough and tumble of doorstep canvassing. But it also has serious moments as with a call for a National Legal Service and a replacement of Britain’s part-time, ritual-ridden London parliament by a single, smaller, modern and citizen-friendly assembly in Birmingham.
“… wryly describes the world of education … I was gripped to the end and you will be too …” (NUT Teacher Magazine).
“… the suspense is well judged. Buy a copy and enjoy discovering the outcome: I’m sure you won’t regret it!” (NAS/UWT Format Journal)
“I enjoyed the book very much.” (‘Book of the Month’, Over 65 Magazine).
“ … immensely supportive of teachers and deals sympathetically with the ongoing problems of head teachers … offers radical changes to our school-based education system.” (National Association of Head Teachers Life Magazine).
“ … arresting, amusing and thought-provoking . . . a new book for a new nation.” (Dr Roland Meighan, Special Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham).
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