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Confused Teacher

Mitchell and Webb Are Not HelpingNot Helping
SKETCH-O-VISION
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The setup

A frustrated maths teacher discovers why his pupils seem to forget an entire year of lessons every summer.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

The headmaster visits Ken, who cannot understand why his class needs another explanation of fractions after the summer holiday. When the headmaster explains that a new group of children arrives each September, Ken struggles to accept that teaching is a repeating job rather than a task he can finish. His protest grows into an argument about the endless supply of pupils who still need to learn maths, while the headmaster reveals how he escaped the classroom himself.

The funny people

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Highly quotable.

They're different children.

I would never have agreed to that.

I just do the admin now.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The series was available to stream on Channel 4 from September 5, 2025. Episode four was broadcast on television on September 26, the date used here.

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