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School Of Hard Knocks – 2011
Teenage boys are a mysterious breed. That adolescent hit of testosterone can transform your sweet little boy into an aggressive, monosyllabic stranger. In those crucial, formative years of high school, it’s easy for some boys to fall between the widening cracks in our education system. For decades now, at what may be Australia’s toughest boys’ school, Frank Dando has been picking up the pieces. Frank’s strict code of traditional maths and English combined with a gruelling exercise regime comes with a healthy dose of old-school discipline. The results speak for themselves. At 81 years of age, Frank and his committed band of teachers have never met a teenage rebel they couldn’t tame.
60 Minutes: September 2011 · Reporter: Ellen Fanning