Rock School on ch 4 was interesting.The lead singer of 70's group(Lenny..?) Kiss has a mission to visit the UK schools and create a rock band from selected pupils(yes - another'reality' prog).
He went to a comprehensive school at a seaside town and the place and the school was a dump.The irony of this ex rocker lamenting the lack of discipline in the school was amusing enough but what was so depressing was the poverty of expectation of the pupils,their studied surly,silent indifference.Destroyed by an educational system so abysmal that even the greatest writer would not be able to adequately describe it.
One pupil was a 'socialist' and, -lets call him Lenny- said, in so many words:' this guy is truly pathetic,not a thing in his head,totally brainwashed,by this socialism/communism'. There was an undercurrent of anti Americanism towards this larger than life US character amongst some of the pupils but he largely won them round,but not before one of the more beliigerent of them (again ironically) dismissed him as being 'too aggressive'. This is one to watch. Part two later this week.
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