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Hepzibar · 31/08/2017 21:13

Just love this series.

Rani Smile

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Spudlet · 31/08/2017 22:25

Yes, I loved the van swarm and I especially loved all Rani's friends leaping on him and stopping him from fessing up Grin

BackieJerkhart · 31/08/2017 22:28

Agree rani and jack are totally adorable. Two little loveable imps. Grin

I can totally see why mr povey dealt with that he way he did. Firstly, he is the head and needs to present a firm and consistent standard and secondly he is trying to do better for those exact children. He wants them to be proud to say they went to that school. Give them a reputation to live up to rather than down to. I totally get it and really respect him for it. Not an easy job at all. Especially when all he wants to do is have a giggle and remember what he got up to as a teen Grin

TheMightyMing · 31/08/2017 22:28

I loved it too. Our teachers these days have so much more to do than just teach. Fantastic. And Jacks mum, what a lovely warm lady, that's obviously where her son gets it from.

cowgirlsareforever · 31/08/2017 22:32

Loved it. Jack and Rani were great and I loved how the others stopped Rani from confessing to touching the van.
I liked the Head. He made the boys keep eye contact with him and spoke about them letting the school down. He was tough but very caring.

purpleme12 · 31/08/2017 22:34

Watching it now. About halfway through. This is fascinating listening to the refugees. And the polish girl how she was speaking it was like she'd hardly come across Chinese or black people before coming here

YouRat · 31/08/2017 22:35

Jack & his mum are lovely.
That poor polish girl was totally misunderstood though.

ImperialBlether · 31/08/2017 22:37

She hadn't though, purpleme. That's what she was saying.

purpleme12 · 31/08/2017 22:47

Yes I know, I was just saying I was shocked that she hadn't really

purpleme12 · 31/08/2017 23:12

It was a really good episode

LewisFan · 31/08/2017 23:46

"I need to be angry so I need to compose myself" GrinGrinGrin

Pud2 · 01/09/2017 08:05

Brilliant programme. Jack shows us all how we should behave.

I love the fact that boys from all cultures can bond by drawing naughty pictures on a dirty white van!

BathshebaOak1 · 01/09/2017 08:13

It was an excellent episode and i thought the head was good. I think some of the heads in previous series were a bit soft which i don't think works as well.

wevecomeonholidaybymistake · 01/09/2017 09:09

How the hell do teachers/Heads keep a straight face in those situations!

WafflyVersatile1 · 01/09/2017 09:20

I guess they are good actors!

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 01/09/2017 09:21

They are thick. Ignore them and enjoy your nice things

We get it out of our system either before or after, like he did Wink

WafflyVersatile1 · 01/09/2017 09:27

Is that quote from a different thread piglet?

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 01/09/2017 09:48

Ops yes sorry. Blush Meant to quote this.

How the hell do teachers/Heads keep a straight face in those situations!

stupid phone

Spudlet · 01/09/2017 10:56

I couldn't do it, I would giggle helplessly! I'd also have to suppress the urge to lurk behind Rani and deal out thick ears to anyone who was mean to him, and my conversation with the lad who got shovey after some other lad called him Osama would have centred around having the common sense to do that sort of thing out of sight. I'd be an appalling teacher Blush I admire those who do it well very much though!

MissEliza · 01/09/2017 11:14

TBH it's quite easy to keep a straight face when you know that such behaviour reflects really badly on the school.

randomer · 01/09/2017 11:20

Thought the questioning of what Rani had been through was horribly insensitive. No need for it.

BackieJerkhart · 01/09/2017 11:22

I agree. Also I thought the guy talking about his dad and not knowing if he was alive or dead was heartbreaking. Perhaps he agreed to it ahead of time. Im sure he did but it must have been very hard for him.

WafflyVersatile1 · 01/09/2017 11:40

I've sometimes not been able to suppress a laugh when telling off my own children, but there's so much more at stake for the head if the kids don't take him seriously, which probably concentrates the mind.

I cringed a bit at the comment made by the girl about immigrants coming over and being given more money by the government than English people. Obviously it was what her parents say, but it shows the sort of attitudes teachers are up against when trying to run a multi cultural school harmoniously.

isobel79 · 01/09/2017 13:17

When rani said "thank you for the food" credit to his parents. I did well up with tears

Bekabeech · 01/09/2017 13:36

I stumbled upon this and had tears welling up at the end. I really like the Head, and thought writing an apology letter was a good punishment and fitted the crime (and will reflect really well on the school).
Rani and Jack were great - and it was such a relief that other Syrian boy had got his permanent leave to stay.

Allthebestnamesareused · 01/09/2017 13:58

Spudlet - if you though that was a tearjerker then you should see Mushi's journey through his speech therapy on Educating Yorkshire.

I had a few tears at last night's episode. It makes you hug your own just a little bit tighter when you see what the refugees have been through.