New Teacher of the Year Award

It was great news that an Edinburgh Teacher, Susan Ward, won the coveted ‘New Teacher of the Year Award’ in London recently.
What was very sad was that immediately some sad wee souls started bitching about her and the idea of wards on teacher online blogs. These folk need to get a life. Why is it that we seem so unwilling to celebrate success and recognise achievement? Is it the Scottish Cringe? Is it our Presbyterian roots? Is it our lack of confidence as a nation?
I don’t know but whatever it is, it is eating away at our collective soul. The sooner we learn that we all benefit when one of us does well the better it will be for our lives as a nation and our identity as a people.