A review by pedanther
Down With Skool! by Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle

funny lighthearted fast-paced
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

I got a few laughs out of it, but having been born a generation or two later in a far distant country, a lot of the specific things being lampooned don't resonate with me the way they would with someone who'd lived through this kind of schooling and didn't only know it from reading other old books. I'm also a lot more aware of the casual racism, gender policing, bullying, and the violence against children by adult authority figures.
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