I didn't realise it started last week - I thought it started this week. Did anyone else notice that one of the Mums was just like a real life Vicki Pollard? ROFL. Anyway, I think that their approach to Dale was the right one to make. This kid has for too long known that no one will ever stand up to him and let him know that there is a limit for his behaviour - his regular teachers probably don't have the time or the patience to be firm and that no means no, so they let it slide and he thinks he rules the roost. Same thing at home probably - he comes across to me as being a typical spoilt brat. Everyone keeps giving him a second chance and TBH, not everyone deserves a second chance because life just isn't like that - every action has a consequence and if you stuff it up, then that's it a lot of the time. Of course it would have been humiliating for him, but only because he was so ****-sure that they would let him stay kwim? If he is to grow up and become a contributing member of society instead of a taker, then that's a lesson he is going to have to learn.

As for the English teacher, I think you should cut him some slack Ladybird. We only see 25mins of footage taken from probably a whole week and he's probably tried everything he knows trying to engage these kids in learning. Maybe he is really dumbing things down for them, which may seem like an insult to their intelligence from our POV, but they can't sit for 5 minutes and pay attention before they are stuffing around and talking. So in that respect I think they need to be taught like you would teach a much younger child. You can't expect them to immediately sit up and start reciting prose and enjoying it when they probably don't even know what it is.

I think I'll keep watching anyway.