Around 10-ish years ago, BBC made a TV series called Are our kids tough enough? (Title may be inaccurate) in which a Welsh (?) class of teenagers from an average school were taught under Chinese secondary school rules. The programme was full of chaos, but the final test shows a higher academic 1/n
@sarahviktoria.bsky.social"To avoid getting into trouble at school, 14-year-old Amelia says she decided to stop drinking water so she would not need the toilet."
Hold onto that thought @lucympowell.bsky.social #TransKids
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How parents and pupils took on 'cruel', 'authoritarian' schools - and won
Discipline at an academy trust went too far - parents, pupils and former teachers tell BBC Panorama.