Former Sandown teacher discovers two of his students are running in the election too
As a teacher, Gary says he is always perturbed by comments that young people are apathetic or not interested in politics
Following news earlier in the week of a former teacher standing in the 2021 Isle of Wight council elections and discovering during a Zoom call that two of his students were standing alongside him, we have news of more teacher and students candidates.
Gary Clarke taught at Sandown High School (which became Sandown Bay Academy and now The Bay CE School) from 2001 to 2017 and was staff governor and head of sixth form for most of that time.