LY "Yeh, well, we used to be in the Progress Class didn‘t we?"
             SUSAN "But Brian, you‘re not in the Progress Class any longer, are you? Now that you can read and write you‘re back in normal classes."
             Here we learn that people in the Progress Class cannot even read or write, this shows us how deprived these children are and how they don‘t even get much of a chance to learn, even the head teacher has no will to get them a decent education.
             HEAD "There‘s not many of her type y‘ know. By and large I reckon she does a good job. She keeps them well out of the way with their reading machines and plasticine. It‘s just when she gets loose with them."
             The way Carol relates to Les seems like she has seen him a lot, Mrs Kay seems to be like Carols mother. Reilly and Digga seem to know Mrs Kay well and seem comfortable with her, she also seems to knows them quite well and knows when to trust them and when to not to. Mrs Kay seems to know all of the children quite well and seems to get on well with two of the other teachers
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