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Article: What would Jane Austen make of it?
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- New Statesman
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- April 20, 2009
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Even though I no longer have a real job, according to my children, and only one of them is still at school, the end of term always comes as a relief. I have been a school governor for almost 17 years and for the past nine months I have been chair of two governing bodies at the same time. So the holidays signal a temporary halt to the meetings, the school visits and the paperwork generated by a seemingly never-ending stream of government initiatives.
Being a governor is hard work and time-consuming, but ultimately it's fulfilling, especially in a school on an upward trajectory. Given that we are a volunteer force, though, we are spectacularly undervalued. All the political parties seem ...