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You're in at 7 a.m.; there until 7 p.m. and marking into the late hours. You've got one student who's a full-time carer, another who's pregnant and a third who's just joined a gang. You haven't got enough textbooks to go around, and one of the parents just called you an 'extremist'. You've just gone through a devastating heartbreak, and you have to teach Romeo and Juliet to 30 hormonal 14-year-olds. Welcome to life as a teacher.

It’s time to talk about school. Two-thirds of our cabinet went to private school while only 7% of the population did; twice as many children in the North East qualify for free school meals than the South East; 89% of children in Young Offender Institutes had been excluded; and there are six times more faith schools than special education needs schools. Our country is shaped by its education system, and so are we. Each week, former teacher Mehreen Baig will talk to a special guest about their education. What school did they go to, what was it like, and how do they think it shaped them? ...