Educating Manchester

[bednobs]

liking the program a lot anyone else watching?

[Old_Geezer]

Not caught it. Do they desperately need educating there ?

[anneasquith]

Great viewing, loved seeing the new boy from Syria making friends with the wee cheeky Mancunian boy.

[ummmm]

Yeah...those two boys have a great relationship.

[Eleena]

Rani & ... Jack < Sweetie pie!

[Khandro]

What channel and what time please?

[-Talbot-]

Haven't seen it but the first thing I would educate Mancunians on is how to correctly say 'Manchester'

[Berniecuddles2]

How do you say Manchester?

[zebo]

Talbot, they're not really Mancunians, they're officially in Salford although most would say Little Hulton!!!! It gets very complicated round there, the folks of Worsley, Roe Green etc really don't like being in Salford!
I know this school, think I recognised at least one member of staff, should be interesting in the weeks to come.

[murraymints]

great viewing....m'n CHESTER or MAAAN chester ?

[zebo]

The local pronunciation of Manchester is, roughly, Man chis ta, with the emphasis on Man.

[Captain2]

Probably been listening to the football supporters pronunciation

Man chest errrrrrr

[fiction-factory]

>Haven't seen it but the first thing I would educate Mancunians on is how to correctly say 'Manchester'

At least they may know not to split infinitives.

Who is to say what is the right pronunciation? Is it the London version which starts "Mehhhn..." - e.g. "I support Mehhhn U", the correct way?

[Mamyalynne]

This is the fifth in the 'Educating' Series and I've thoroughly enjoyed them all, haven't watched Greater Manchester yet, recorded it.

[trt]

The teachers concentrated to much time on the Syrian & Afghan kids IMO, and the rest seemed to be ignored.

I liked the way the head dealt with the kids writing on the van, very scary bloke, but thats what they need these days.

[bednobs]

the "story" was about the oerseas children and how they were integrating. in subsequent episodes, they will concentrate on something else

[fiction-factory]

I only saw a bit of the programme trt (I have recorded it) but the bit I saw was looking at the issue of new students from Syria etc so it's not surprising that that is the impression you got. But the series has only just started and I am pretty confident that we will see other groups in other programmes. Certainly a handful of such students don't get all the attention in schools. If it does come over that way here then maybe that would suggest Channel 4 chose to focus on that aspect, maybe for its own agenda, as they had six months of filming they could use. Maybe we need to wait and see.

[-Talbot-]

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/grammar/split-infinitives

// the rule’ against splitting infinitives isn’t followed as strictly today as it used to be. Nevertheless, some people do object very strongly to them.//


The Oxford dictionary obviously doesn't know who it is dealing with.
Retired teacher who just can't let go is it?

btw ... it was a joke

[Prudie]

I thoroughly enjoyed it. Future episodes may change my mind but first impression is the pupils are far more respectful and the head more of a disciplinarian than the Essex and Yorkshire lot!

[tamaris]

The teachers concentrated to much time on the Syrian & Afghan kids IMO, and the rest seemed to be ignored.

[murraymints]

next week's episode will have another theme