“Tepapawai is a Decile 2 school. It has one of the highest staff turnovers in the country and since their last damning ERO Report the hapless Principal, Roger Dasent, can't find enough relieving teachers, certainly no teacher in the school wants to be put in charge of the out of control, law unto themselves boys in 5F. In desperation Dasent places ads on the Internet and ads in education gazettes in places as varied as Bangladesh and Chernobyl and still gets no takers - and he has to reach for the folder at the bottom of his filing cabinet and make a phone call to the one person he had hoped he would never have to speak to again... Mr Gormsby!” - TVNZ; tvnz.co.nz; 10/05/2005
The Retarded Boy: Roger, on discovering the funding benefits, agrees to take on a boy with a learning disablility - and then goes about the recruiting as many disadvantaged students as possible. Meanwhile Gormsby attempts to teach the boys cricket which leads to a match with the staff - with rather unfortunate results.