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Even the Chinese can’t teach Kevin the Teenager

6 August 2015

1:00 PM

6 August 2015

1:00 PM

Watching a group of unruly children make mincemeat out of a well-meaning teacher has become a television staple and Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School, a factual entertainment series that debuted on BBC2 on Tuesday, is a case in point. We look on aghast as five teachers from China struggle to manage a class of ordinary 14-year-olds in England.

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