Should a teacher put herself forward to adopt two looked-after children that are about to be sent to live with their father, who they have never known? A primary school teacher tells of being caught between personal and professional demands.
Ten years ago, I was teaching a class of six-year-olds in a primary school in a poor part of west London.
There was a boy in my class I was fond of. But he began coming into school late quite a lot. I found out he and his elder brother were living with a foster mother who had too many children to fit in her car so social services had arranged for a taxi to take them, but this tended not to turn up.
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