The Side Eye: Everything to Everyone – understanding the teacher crisis

Toby Morris
03 Dec 2018
Society
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The job’s got harder, the pay’s got worse. Toby Morris spends a day with two primary teachers and finds out what the teaching crisis is all about.

 

 

The Side Eye is a monthly non-fiction comic by Toby Morris, supported by NZ On Air. Read more comics here

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Toby Morris

Toby Morris

Toby Morris is an Auckland based illustrator, comic artist and writer. He is the author of The Spinoff's non-fiction comic series The Side Eye, won the Voyager award for Cartoonist of the year for 2019 and in 2020 his Covid-19 collaborations with Dr Siouxsie were shared around the world.

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