The comic, whose mother appeared regularly in his BBC travel series Asian Provocateur, was previously a maths teacher and head of sixth form at Hazelwick school in Crawley, where he had also been a pupil.

‘He has managed to find a space there to build his dream home, though it is rather bigger than his childhood home in one of the poorer areas of Crawley. It’s a lovely story of rags to riches which Romesh has worked very hard for.’

Teaching is hard work. Don’t believe me? You try keeping the attention of two dozen or more kids — second graders, high school sophomores, doesn’t matter — and guiding them through the lesson plans you crafted and refined, through five or six classes a day, without much real break time, working pretty much solo. Oh yeah: The pay’s lousy.

Mr Ranganathan made clear his allegiance to the West Sussex town – whose other notable residents include England manager Gareth Southgate and Crown actress Erin Doherty – by calling his 2018 autobiography Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs Of A Distinctly Average Human Being.

The comedian, who replaced Anne Robinson as the host of The Weakest Link, has previously spoken about his impoverished upbringing, including the challenges faced by his family when their home was repossessed after his accountant father was jailed for two years for fraud.

Money was never the reason she left. “I was OK with [earning] $55,000 and I loved my job every day and seeing those kids every day. Sure, it’d be great to make $80,000 a year for it, but that’s not why I was doing it.”

A different approach to salary increases Beyond modernizing the teaching job, increasing teacher salaries across the board seems an obvious first step to thwart further resignations, and some states, like New Mexico, are already raising pay. Not all the experts I interviewed agree, however. One of the reasons retaining teachers and attracting new ones remains endemically challenging, some argue, is that teacher salaries are basically the same for everyone in most school districts, regardless of area of expertise or teaching environment.

This original YA movie tells the story of Ellie Chu, a shy Asian American in the remote town of Squahamish discovering her sexuality. A straight-A yet friendless student who has a side-hustle writing papers for her classmates, Ellie helps footballer Paul Munsky write a love letter to Aster Flores. But it turns out Aster’s perfect for Ellie instead. A story of self-acceptance told with a delicate touch, The Half of It is a joy.

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The Meyerowitz Stories is a bittersweet comedy-drama told through Noah Baumbach’s grounded lens. The titular stories concern dysfunctional adult siblings, played by Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, trying to live in the shadow of their father. An effervescent cast, including Dustin Hoffman, play these intelligent, albeit miserable, characters as they weave their poignant tales.

The mum-of-one reportedly ended their two-year relationship in 2021, after learning the full extent of the conman’s crimes – but admitted they would always have a co-parenting relationship for their son. 

According to the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, by the school year 2017-18, almost 60% of all teachers across the country had a post-baccalaureate degree. And with over 3.5 million teachers in the country, teaching “is far and away the largest single profession in America that requires a bachelor’s degree,” David Rosenberg, partner at Education Resource Strategies, said over Zoom. ERS is a national nonprofit that helps school leaders think about using their resources differently and reimagine the job of teaching.

The couple went public in December by sharing sweet snaps together to Instagram, after romance rumours were originally sparked between the two in October – when Jarrod was spotted leaving her Essex home. 

After eight months at the transportation company, Nelson is teaching again. She’s now offering online courses for a tutoring company, and she misses the classroom and her middle school students. “They’re the love of my life. I love their stinky little hilarious selves.”

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One of the best new family movies has just hit Netflix. From some of the same people who made Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse comes this adventure to save the world involving Mom, Dad, the kids and their slobbery, bug-eyed dog. But amid the robot apocalypse, led by Olivia Colman’s sinister Siri, really The Mitchells vs. the Machines is about a strained relationship between movie-loving daughter Katie and her technophobe father. The technology-inept parent gags are rife, the colors frenetic and the character growth moving. A near-perfect package with the timeless message that embracing your weirdness is a superpower.