Readings for Returning to School

For a retired teacher like me, September is always back-to-school month. 

On the topic of schools, Electric Lit has had a couple of interesting items.  There’s “10 Stories for the Back to School Season” which offers suggestions of stories that “envision schools of the future and recall the institutions of the past; they sympathize with the adjunct professor, the terrified elementary student, the awkward teen, and the flustered parent”:  https://electricliterature.com/10-stories-for-the-back-to-school-season-4f0f9f8d3f6c.

And then there’s “Famous Schools from Fiction”:  https://electricliterature.com/infographic-famous-fictional-schools-from-hogwarts-to-sunnydale-c810145ef8f3.  How many do you recognize?

Barnes and Noble prepared a list of 50 books about the high school experience:  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/50-essential-high-school-stories/.

Though it is definitely sentimental, one of my favourite novels about schools is Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton which was first published in 1934.  The novella tells the story of a beloved schoolteacher, Mr. Chipping, and his long tenure at Brookfield School, a boys' public boarding school.