Carry on Teacher

The students at the Maudlin Street Secondary Modern School are a rambunctious bunch, but their hijinx are nothing that the faculty can't handle, each in his or her way which differs vastly from teacher to teacher. For example, Miss Grace Short, the Math teacher, believes in the strong discipline of caning, while acting headmaster, Mr. Michael Wakefield, who has been in the position for one year but has been at the school all his teaching life, thus far twenty years, does not believe in caning under any circumstance, he believing there far more effective and humane ways to discipline. Mr. Wakefield announces to the faculty that he hopes this to be his last year at the school as he is applying to be headmaster for the upcoming school year at a new school closer to where he grew up. The reason for the announcement is that he is wanting their help as the Ministry of Education is sending two people on a tour of schools, they to spend one week at Maudlin, a good report from them which would help in his application. The two are administrator Miss Felicity Wheeler, whose stern demeanor probably matches her intent, and Mr. Alistair Grigg, a child psychologist whose basic philosophy is to let children be children. Their arrival coincides with what seems to be a systematic plan by the students to make the teachers look especially bad, the students seemingly winning at every turn. The situation is only complicated by Mr. Edwin Milton and Mr. Michael Bean, the English and Music teachers, respectively, at each other's throat in their disagreements about the year end production of Romeo and Juliet, an immediate physical attraction between Mr. Grigg and Miss Sarah Allcock, the Physical Education teacher, despite their opposing views of child discipline, and Science teacher Mr. Gregory Adams' nervousness in Mr. Wakefield's request to show some romantic intention to Miss Wheeler in Mr. Wakefield noticing her romantic interest in Mr. Adams, Mr. Wakefield believing it a way to temper what would otherwise be her damning report to the Ministry. But as the teachers try to find out the masterminds of the students' plan to quash it, the question still remains what is causing the students to do so at this time.