Rating: 6.5A documentary about an English school for emotionally disturbed children. The teachers outnumber the students by several to one and there are many instances in the film where it takes 3 staff members to restrain a student. The staff seem saintly in their ability to stay completely calm in the face of a cursing, spitting, violent child. Being a teacher for normal children would be difficult enough, but the teachers in this film seem to have a near impossible amount of patience. If the film delved more into the backgrounds of its subjects or explained the criteria they use to admit students it would have given some context that was lacking.
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