Academy Confidential: True stories from a post-conversion nightmare

ACADEMY CONFIDENTIAL is an undercover expose of you everything you need to know - and some of the things you don't - about academies and schools in the UK. It reveals how quickly multi-academy trusts can take over so-called `failing' schools and turn them into autonomous academies - in doing so, often crushing staff morale under the weight of spiralling and unrealistic expectations.As an experienced teacher, Cefyn Thomas (not his real name) has suffered first-hand - and he has had enough. Intellectually challenged careerists, sociopathic students, deranged Headteachers: all take a well-deserved hit. His tell-tall story is a funny, tragic, sometimes caustic study of the innards of UK schools and academies. His findings are thought-provoking, and sometimes truly shocking.ACADEMY CONFIDENTIAL is a must-read for parents trying to understand why their child suddenly comes home speaking terrible Mandarin; for teachers who want to know how their once-loved school became toxic and their job has them reaching for the Citalopram; for anyone who has an interest in what really happens when the school gates close at 9am.