Written by Issac Greaves
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
I had heard of the programme Educating Essex, however I don’t watch much TV in any case so was not naturally introduced to it. If anything I was deterred from watching it as the only thing I had heard about the programme was from following a link on twitter to someone’s blog who was simply slating the school, SLT and the programme. I was just left with the brief impression that I wouldn’t be interested in watching anything that was going to batter the reputation of the teaching profession, or had been filmed in such a ‘journalistic’ way, to give the wrong impression of what was actually going on. I also had my own misconceptions as the SLT largely featured in the programme, at first glance, do look like a comedy duo. This was the brief extent to which I had considered the programme… However…
