Not many people can say that they love their job, but I do. I teach art and design in a large secondary school in London. I help young minds undertake journeys of creativity and self-exploration, as well as enabling them to learn new skills. Our classrooms are environments where students experience challenge, accomplishment and, dare I say, joy. However, I don’t experience utopia every day. There is a short period of the year I dread – where my technicolour-rainbow attitude to teaching transforms to bleak...