I gave up taking traditional school trips abroad a few years before I retired from teaching. I was afraid of being sued by parents if anything went wrong. The last trip I took consisted of two parents and four students, with the parents taking responsibility for the young people.

I may have been paranoid, but I wasn't prepared to take the risk. I know that parents at my school were beginning to sue the school if their child fell over and injuried herself in the school grounds, so can you blame me?   more »

We may be deprived of Greek drama at Stratford with the cancellation of Hecuba , but the theatre there is being Roman this year, with Shakespeare's Julius Caesar on now, and Ben Jonson's Sejanus coming in the summer. I expect Julius Caesar is too well known to need comment. Being closely based on Plutarch it is a play you can safely take your students to see for a Roman view of Caesar. As for Ben Jonson, it is worth quoting the theatre's website on this play:   more »