Special Measures review A comic indictment of staffroom pressures
Its characters may carry a whiff of panto, but this fierce comedy about a failing Liverpool primary school offers a serious insight into the constraints placed on teachersFormer teacher Mark Davies Markham realised the time had come to get out of education when a student threatened him with a bread knife. His wife still works in a school, however, and his comedy set in a failing Liverpool primary is a fiercely funny …