SCHOOL OF SEX

Smiling at the laptop screen, a class of seven-year-olds beamed back at me.

‘Has everyone got that?’ I asked.

I was trying to teach them a lesson online, but it was proving to be a challenge.

In the background, I could hear my own kids running riot upstairs and my husband Paul, 45, was in desperate need of my help to calm them down.

But I couldn’t leave my class.

It was March last year, and my home in Texas had just been placed under lockdown.

Online teaching was draining every bit of my energy.

I’d been a teacher for 13 years, and I loved every moment of it.

I loved working with kids, but lockdown was taking the fun out of it.

They were distracted, and I couldn’t engage them the way I could in