REFLECTION of WARD COURIER

Autumn, 2010

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Once I fell into conversation with a real estate developer who asked me about life as a teacher at a country boarding school. "You work long," he observed after he had listened. "But you don't work all that hard."

In general, I quibble with his assessment, and particularly his emphasis on 'hard.' He doesn't know what it's like being a teacher.

If "taking big personal financial risks" is what he meant by ...