The Worlds Worst Teachers extract

MR PENT’S BALLS

Oh no, he was one of the world’s very worst teachers. That was because Mr Pent’s every waking moment was taken up with one dark obsession. Balls. He had a deep loathing of them. But where did this strange fixation with spherical objects come from? Our story begins when Mr Pent was still a child. It is easy to forget that teachers were once children, but in most cases they were. Some babies you knew immediately were destined to be teachers, because they were born with a teacherly scowl of disapproval on their face:

Teacher baby

Normal baby

17