A reminder.

Which I deserved.

And what Deb Hanraty said to me in the car park afterward is the thing I now say to younger teachers about twice a year.

She said: “Roland, somebody with money pointed a real rule at you.

“That is almost always how it works.

They do not invent anything.

They find a true small thing you are doing and they hand it to an administrator who then has no choice.

“So the lesson is not that your mother is a monster.