Darlington Review • Vol.62 • No.3 • April 2022

OUR PLACE: Teachers Jayne and Katie Simpson

Education issues – from the impacts of NAPLAN and an overloaded curriculum to the attrition rate of young graduate teachers – mean the teaching profession is often in the media spotlight. Teaching is a vocation and in Darlington’s Simpson family the desire to nurture a love of learning has enticed both Jayne and Bob Simpson and their daughter Katie into the profession.