Would you like a receipt? ordonnance cialis doctissimo I wanted to meet the more challenging students – those less constrained to speak, the ones who will be featured in Educating Yorkshire, those among the 10 per cent who take up 90 per cent of teachers’ time. Tom is 15. In Educating Yorkshire we see him being variously cheeky, insulting and disruptive. He is a handful for his teachers, who have tried everything from detention to isolation to exclusion in the attempt to persuade him to change his behaviour. When I met him I knew his history, but as a light-hearted icebreaker I asked if he considered himself a swot. ‘What’s a swot?’ he said. I asked why he kept getting into trouble. ‘I’m short-tempered so I kick off,’ he said, staring at his battered shoes and rarely meeting my gaze. ‘I used to be in detention every day, I had to go to the gym and copy lines out for an hour, but I used to just go to sleep. Or draw.’ That makes Tom sound like a lazy deadbeat, but there is an endearing fragility about him. He didn’t seem a lost cause, he just needed to be handled the right way and he hadn’t been given many breaks in life. Tom lives in Thornhill. ‘This is a proper racist area,’ he said and he should know: his brother went to prison for his part in a racist attack. ‘He didn’t do anything – he was just there when it happened,’ Tom claimed. And what happened? I asked. ‘One of his mates stabbed an Asian across the face, a big scar down there,’ he said, pointing at his cheek. ‘My brother got 15 months, but he only did five plus tag. He’s 19.’
