Diary of a schoolteacher: Caught in a trap as my security man exerts a vice-like grip [Independent.ie]
- Published: 15 December 2010
One of our German teachers, Fergal Madden, has decided to bring forward the annual transition year trip to Germany so that the kids get to see the famous Christmas markets.
I successfully cadge a berth for myself on this year's foray to Hamburg, where in past years we had managed to arrange an exchange with a local school.
Obviously that was never going to last with this school.
Accompanying us two educators and this group of twenty pupils is the chairperson of the parents' committee, Mrs Sheila Keaveney, who also happens to be mother of evil genius, Dan Keaveney. How such a nice and normal woman could produce such a twisted little fiend is beyond me.
However, things get off to a promising start when the first evening we agree that Mrs Keaveney and Madden will take the big group of demanding girls to a Shopping Centre while I am given the less onerous task of keeping the five boys entertained-- including Dan who has been in Hamburg before on the last exchange and thus knows his way around.
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