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Slovakia's študenti have recently returned to school and thousands of long-suffering učitelia to their despairing staff rooms. It's time to map out the battleground for the year ahead.
Sure, in Slovakia teachers will find a few apple-polishers (šplhúni, lit. rope-climbers) among the ranks, a few bonzáci (snitches) to rat on the grázli (scoundrels), a bifľoš (brain) or two to leaven the ranks of the incurious, but it's still a tough old world in there.
If, as Martin Amis writes, the average press conference is no fortress of shrewd enquiry, the average Slovak classroom is a mass of education-resistant solidarity.
