To all you Barry's, I've just read this....

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.....you'll weep at some responses to the first comment too!

Huh?

Oh dear, link fail

www.tes.com/news/meet-barry-old-school-teacher-who-defies-slt

One of the best TES articles

We don't have any Barries left. I miss Barry.

Actually have tears in my eyes. Haven’t worked with a Barry for years...

Barry is a seriously endangered species at this point.

#belikebarry

A dying breed but so much I can identify with

I'm not even a teacher, but that article made me cry. I was taught by a Barry.

Sadly, Barry is becoming an endangered species.
Schools need more Barrys.

When I started teaching, I learned FAR more about teaching from my own 'Barry' of the time, than from all my time at college doing my B.Ed. She was a star. Remember her very fondly.

I love our Barry, sadly she is retiring. We need the Barry's of this world!

Not a teacher but I was taught by a Barry, best teacher I ever had.

I am now the oldest teacher in my school (I'm only 44!)
I have some Barry Traits. They are acquired through time and experience, but also by being of an age when you are no longer prepared to put up with the BS filtered down from the government to heads to SLT.
I will never retire. But only because I will die before I get to the age of retirement.
I hope my pupils all remember me 'being Barry'.

I used to work in a school full of barrys.

Over the last ten years I’ve seen most of them shuffle off.

There aren’t many left now.

I might be becoming Barry.

I worked in a tough school where the long-serving Deputy Head was a complete Barry. His English lessons were 10 outstanding, he knew exactly what was going on in the school, but used that info. carefully. One day, when word flew around the building that to excluded boys had come into school with knives, he located and disarmed them while all the young SLT shts looked the other way. He'd just returned from abdominal surgery and he did that for all of us. He retired when the jackbooted academy brigade bulldozed in. What a loss.

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That has made me cry...I too miss Barry as he was moved on by last head (shortly before we moved HER on)...

I'm a bit Barry

Our department Barry retired ( with some pressure) at the end of the last school year. I miss him, and his wisdom.

We need more Barry ‘s.