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I remember with much fondness and gratitude my head teacher at my very first primary teaching job. He was supportive, positive, caring, laid-back. We would go to him with every complaint that we had; from workload to a lack of whiteboard pens. He was always supportive and never critical.
Within two years of my starting at the school he had suffered a heart attack. To the relief of all, it was not fatal, but there is no doubt in our minds that all of that negativity he was absorbing had a part to play in his health deteriorating. Who was supporting him while he was relentlessly supporting us?
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