When Mr. Broughton Had a Hard Time

Francis was one of those hard cases in our year group. He basically did whatever he wanted because teachers knew that it was just easier to ignore him and teach the kids who wanted teaching as opposed to rising to his bait. As a muffin fond of telling people, he literally fulfilled the archaic, bully stereotype of stealing people's lunch money. It was quite a while before the school threatened to get the police involved. I think they couldn't even expel him because he'd already been expelled once - so we were kind of legally stuck with them,. And apparently, so was Mr. Broughton. Francis gave all his teachers a hard time, but Broughton was a kind of exception