you ain't a beauty but hey you're alright

Feel pretty down today. All I seem to be doing at the moment is working and I'm not even sure I enjoy working in education all that much anymore. Was talking to a parent of a child I used to teach a few years ago, who is now in secondary school. She said how much he hates school at the moment cos they test him every few weeks with GCSE papers he's not even supposed to be sitting for another two years. He used to be so into learning when he was in my class, but it does seem like primary education is slowly becoming like that too. All this talk of data, percentages, performance management....it stresses me out.

But then again, I think I'm also stressing about some of the changes to come :(

At least Mad Men is on tonight.