A job that changed me: I was teaching in a juvenile detention centre when a repeat offender’s poetry moved me to tears

On my first day, I was terrified. But I quickly came to realise these young people weren’t irredeemably bad “Those who can’t, teach,” is the most unjust professional putdown. Unfortunately, it was true in my case. I’d lived a childhood dream for 25 years, as a sports reporter and producer in Australia, London and New York. When I moved back to Melbourne from the United States with my family in 2017, I started a media production company with an old friend. Had it been successful, I never would ha