Classroom Confidential, 9781399736435
Hardcover
Brutal, hilarious truth: teaching isn’t inspirational, it’s survival in the classroom.
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Classroom Confidential

the truth about being a teacher and why you should never become one

$64.17

  • Hardcover

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    24 November 2025

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Summary

Classroom Confidential: Tales from the Trenches

Welcome to the reality of being a teacher - the pure, unvarnished truth of standing in front of thirty kids and trying to get them to do some work. It’s not the inspirational vision you see in government ads. It’s breaking up fights between warring East End grandmas, figuring out which student defecated in the sink, and dealing with prepubescent sociopaths intent on annihilating lessons week after week.

In brutal, hilarious, an…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399736435
ISBN-10:1399736434
Author:Francis Foster
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Coronet Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:24 November 2025
Weight:0g
Dimensions:240mm x 156mm
About The Author

Francis Foster

Francis Foster is a stand-up comedian, teacher and co-host of the smash-hit culture and politics show Triggernometry. In this podcast, that has over 1.2m subscribers, he interviews guests about the important issues that are affecting our culture, including Richard Dawkins, Africa Brooke, Stephen Fry and Neil deGrasse Tyson. He also hosts the podcast Francis Foster Sorts Your Life Out and has a successful Substack. In Francis’s career as a stand-up comedian, he’s performed across the globe and opened for the likes of Eddie Izzard, Jeff Garlin and Paul Chowdhry, with a lot of his comedy focussing on his ‘challenging’ years as a teacher. He now lives in Crouch End, ‘with all the other media tossers in London’.

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