ABSTRACT
Over the years, being a media type, I have had five different schools ask me whether they should agree to let a television company make a documentary about them. Teachers are natural performers, and touchingly proud of their pupils, so it is tempting. So is the idea of free publicity, to dazzle your LEA (or pull in more paying customers, depending which sector you are in). Therefore the letter on the headed notepaper is a tremendous lure. Memories are short, and the odds are that the tempted head, hesitating amid dreams of fame and glory for the school, has genuinely forgotten the last time a perfectly decent educational institution got shafted by the cruel skill of the TV editor.
