Secret Teacher: I've taught kids like Trump — it's my job to look behind the behaviour 

"And any teacher with experience will tell you how important it is to look beyond the bad behaviour to the cause of that behaviour."

In a few weeks’ time, a woman will enter the White House and a misogynist will leave. This is good news. I know my children and my students are watching. It means something.

But instead of adding my voice to the narrative about the triumph of good over evil and democracy over tyranny, I want the changeover to happen quietly. I want everyone to tread very carefully, to speak with almost excessive diplomacy and grace.