MD salutes...life changing teachers. Ours was Mr Craven. He brought Electric Ladyland in to school to educate us. We were 10. The dinner ladies reported him due to the cover. He put Young Communist League flyers on the seats of every school bus trip. While we were still 10 (1)
Berated us for worshipping a false god as we trooped out for Assembly. Conned the school into buying one of the very first, hugely expensive video recorders. So he could tape midweek Burnley(?) games. Which he would make us watch if they won (2)
Relentlessly drummed into us that Tories were evil. Paid £1 for the best poem of the week. Poetry wasn't even taught. We'd never heard of poetry until this point. He eventually got the sack and became a lighthouse keeper. We think about him a lot. An amazing man. (3)
If it hadn’t been for Mr Craven, we would never achieved the success that didn’t come our way.
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