This one wouldn?t quit for all the world. A third of teachers leave within their first term on the job. Nothing frightens him and no one can get through to him. Meet Furious ? sixteen, handsome and completely out of control. Then there?s Seething and Deranged, two girls who are brimming with bad attitude; Fifty and Cent, who act like gangsters but are afraid of getting beaten up; and Stoic, a brilliant young mind struggling to survive. Now meet Munchkin ? a sweet kid with glasses who?s an easy target and needs protecting. None will make it through the year unscathed. In the midst of them all, there is a bodyguard and bouncer, a counsellor and confidante, a young woman whose job it is to motivate and inspire them and somehow keep them out of trouble: their teacher. Some may not even make it at all? Spanning a year of shocking truths and hard-won victories, of fights and phone-thefts, teenage pregnancies and the dreaded OFSTED report, this is the remarkable diary of an inner-city. 2011.