But, as this programme shows, we’re not the exemplary vehicular operators we think we are. Instead of learning wizardry, the kids learn to become musical wizards, wielding drumsticks instead of wands, and guitars instead of broomsticks. School Life visits Ireland’s only primary-age boarding school and meets its headmaster John Leyden and his wife Amanda, who have been running the school for nearly 50 years. But in the small town of Boring, Oregon, high school life in the 1990s is anything but idyllic, and the kids in Boring High School can’t wait until the millennium arrives to put them out of their misery. The series’ creators drew on their own experience of high school in the 1990s to come up with an “honest” story of teens in late-20th-century purgatory.

Source: The Irish Times February 11, 2018 06:00 UTC