School on TV? It's all scrumpy and rumpy-pumpy

It was completely by mistake the other day that I began to watch the school drama series Waterloo Road. It must have been something to do with watching the television while ironing and randomly pushing buttons on the antiquated remote. Someone somewhere decided that Waterloo Road was the thing for me. And, by George, he or she was right. The first series came out in 2006, by which time I had been teaching for only four years. Set in a school in Rochdale, it opens with the headmaster, driven beyond endurance, having a nervous breakdown on the roof of one of the school buildings. Thereafter it deals with the travails of the acting headmaster and his attempts to turn this rough school into something resembling an institution of learning more…

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The Oldie (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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