She's earned her living helping inner-city kids achieve their potential through old-fashioned values and discipline, a legacy from her strict inner-city Caribbean upbringing.
This documentary follows Beckles as she tries to raise students' standards in a leafy London suburb over the course of a term.
This episode features Luke, Josh and Tom. Josh is a keen fisherman and Luke and Tom enjoy playing in their own band. Beckles tells them to start putting their studying first. But soon both parents and teenagers start to kick back against the system.
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