Tales Out of School was a series of four plays by David Leland which were screened on TV in the early eighties. The most famous was 'Made in Britain' with Tim Roth. 'Birth of a Nation' featured Jim Broadbent as a newly qualified teacher who is appalled at the level of corporal punishment being doled out at a comprehensive school. The whole series has recently been released on DVD.
Screenshot from 'The Golden Vision'; a Wednesday Play from 1968, directed by Ken Loach, and written by Neville Smith and Gordon Honeycombe, the ITN newsreader.