Sunday 13 January 2008

John Docherty




Alison, my Principal Teacher, phoned me just after lunch to say that Mr Docherty, our Headteacher, had died. She hadn't heard about Kirsty and was so apologetic when I told her.

Mr Docherty was an old style headteacher. Courteous, calm and slightly patrician. I had my share of disagreements with him when he didn't appreciate some of my more radical ideas about education but we never fell out.

This is a very new and strange world we are inhabiting.

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