Theme song: Exorcist theme song

Title credits roll.

Opening scene:

An enthusiastic young teacher steps off the plane at Bari airport, full of excitement, and wonder about what lies ahead. (Happy music playing) FADE OUT

Scene 2

Teacher is led to a grotty, damp smelling, freezing cold apartment with no internet or heating. Teacher remains optimistic. Calls homes, lets everybody know that all is well and everyone seems nice. Teacher goes to sleep early, ready to start the next morning. FADE OUT

Scene 3

Teacher arrives at a dirty, soulless school. Still not put off, teacher goes about making friends. Almost everyone is lovely. CUT TO NEXT SCENE

Scene 4

New Teacher has first class. All goes well, all students are eager to learn and sweet. First few weeks go by quickly.

MONTAGE OF CLASSES WHILST WE FAST FORWARD TO A MONTH IN

Scene 5

FRIDAY NIGHT

(New Teacher is no longer looking so new. Signs of sleep deprivation are real, as are signs of the permanent cold NT has had since arrival due to poverty like living conditions. New Teacher is also showing signs of exhaustion, as they are working a minimum of twelve hours days with less than an hour lunch break. It is 20:00. Time for the final class of the day. New Teacher has zero energy, despite having had seven coffees today. New Teacher also has no motivation, due to being treated like a slave and having not been paid yet. This is New Teacher's fifth hour of teaching without so much as a five minute break. Whilst the class are entering, New Teacher slips out to use the toilet.)

(IN THE CORRIDOR)

BOSS 1: New Teacher, what are you doing???

New Teacher: I just have to pop to the toilet...

Boss 1: Can you not go after lesson??? There are paying for an hour and a half, which they are not getting!!

New Teacher: I can't wait

Boss 1: Hurry up then!!

(New Teacher rushes, and returns to the classroom. Boss 1 is stood in the corridor checking her watch and shakes her head disapprovingly as NT returns to yet another soul destroying evening class.)

AFTER CLASS

(It is now 22:00. New Teacher knows to stay after lessons, even though it is without pay, otherwise Boss 1 will complain about NT to other teachers.)

Boss 1: Yes, good night, NT.

NT: I was hoping to speak to Boss 2?

Boss 1: About?

NT: Getting paid.

IN WALKS FAKE SENIOR TEACHER. EXCORCIST MUSIC RETURNS.

Boss 1 shouts something in Italian to Boss 2. Boss 2 enters.

Boss 2: I no finish accounts. Sorry. Tomorrow.

NT: Okay, tomorrow morning? It's just that you've been saying this for about a week now.

Boss 2: I don't know when. Maybe morning. Maybe afternoon. I no finish accounts.

NT: Okay.... well.... good night....

NEW TEACHER WALKS AWAY AND BOSS 1, BOSS 2 AND FAKE SENIOR TEACHER ALL START TO LAUGH.

CUT TO NEXT SCENE

SCENE 6

(NT returns home to vile apartment in a sketchy area after being followed home, again. NT looks around vile apartment and sighs, remembering that there is no food in the house and everything closes stupidly early here. Goes on to phone to use internet to use data and order a pizza. Data is finished. Again. Apartment without internet is living hell. NT goes to sleep wearing three pairs of PJs, two jumpers and every blanket in the flat. Still cold. Has hellish state school in the morning, then private lessons. Sunday is only day off and everything is closed)

CUT TO NEXT SCENE

SCENE 7

MONDAY MORNING

06:00

(NT is struggling to get out of bed. After less than six hours sleep because of the noise from the dangerous neighbourhood, the air is painfully cold. Another 14 hour day ahead. Though today NT gets an hour break (unpaid travel time) and twenty minutes for lunch. Light in the bleak tunnel. Six hours in the chaotic state schools to get through first. NT assumes, anyway, as Boss 1 has not text with the timetable. But this is not unusual)

FAST FORWARD SIX HOURS OF UNRULY KIDS AND TEACHERS DISAPPEARING FOR COFFEE AND CIGARETTES.

17:30.

NT is waiting for a student.

17:45

NT is waiting for a student

18:00

NT is waiting for a student

BOSS 2 ENTERS

Boss 2: I tell you yesterday student cancel.

NT: No?

B2: Yes. I tell you. I tell you yesterday. In morning.

NT: No, I don't think so.

B2: Well you no ask.

NT: ...........

NT: Did you get a chance to finish the accounts yet?

B2: No. Sorry. Tomorrow.

(NT goes to get a coffee and silently fumes about what could have been an hour of relief from this hell.)

CUT TO NEXT SCENE

SCENE 8

WEDNESDAY

(Nothing has changed. NT is still begging for money. A relative has had to send NT money, despite NT having a more than full time job (not the 25 hours promised).)

FRIDAY

(Still the same. Word has reached NT that Boss 1 has been gossiping about NT to other teachers. NT cannot say anything about this.)

CUT TO NEXT SCENE

SCENE 9

TWO WEEKS LATER

(NT has finally been paid. NT thinks the bills are extremely expensive considering NT is never home. NT never sees a bill, it is taken from salary at source.
NT is still miserable, as are all the staff. NT enters reception to see The Newer Teacher arguing with the receptionist (who does not speak English) because the receptionist has not done The Newer Teacher's photocopies. As usual.)

(NT goes to the 'staffroom' to prepare a lesson. There is a lesson being held in the staffroom, so NT has now nowhere to prepare the lesson. When NT complains, NT is told that the lesson should have been prepared earlier. Despite NT only finding out about the lesson whilst traveling back from a state school.)

(NT doesn't know how much more NT can take.)

THE SAME WEEK

(NT receives some bad news about a family member. B1 tells other members of staff NT is over dramatic.)

(Other new teachers are arriving. NT is pleased to make friends. NT hears that B1 thinks NT has no mind of their own.)

CUT TO NEXT SCENE

SCENE 10

TWO MONTHS AFTER ARRIVAL

(NT cannot take much more. The atmosphere could be cut with a knife. Fake Senior Teacher is insufferable and has started to bully a disabled member of staff. Word on the grape vine is that B1 knows about this and is choosing to do nothing. Nothing surprises NT anymore.)

SCENE 11

(NT and The Newer Teacher are having a coffee and wondering how their lives came to this. They plot to leave.)

LATER THAT DAY

(A meeting has been called. All teachers except Fake Senior Teacher wonder why. The meeting is to scold teachers for gossiping and to blame people for all the school's problems.
NT has had it.)

(NT uses school wifi to book a ticket home. NT resigns and is told to keep it a secret. As have all the other teachers who have mentioned leaving.)

CUT TO NEXT SCENE

SCENE 12

(NT is beside them self with excitement to leave. It is the day before NT flies home. NT is of course, waiting for hours for their final pay. Only upon NT's final day, is NT provided with a contract. NT doesn't care anymore. Freedom is close.)

(NT returns to civilisation. NT had almost forgotten what normality was. All Italians NT meets tell NT that Barletta is the armpit of Italy and that the people there cannot be trusted.)

(NT gets on with life. Until word reaches NT that months later, NT is still being slated by B1. NT decides to write a review online. An honest review. It is not to detract from the reputation of the school or bosses, it is to warn other teachers that this is likely to be their experience if they accept a job offer. It is not the first review of the school. And it certainly will not be the last. It is not a bad review, it is honest. B1 goes crazy and starts reaching out to friends and ex teachers asking for positive reviews (whilst of course bad mouthing NT and other ex members of staff who were fortunate enough to leave). NT would not be surprised if B1 or FST soon start writing false positive reviews themselves. Because, that's what they will be. False.)

FADE OUT

NEXT TIME ON ACADEMIA (MIS) ADVENTURES......

WILL B1 AND B2 EVER ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY AND STOP SCAPEGOATING THEIR STAFF??

WILL FST EVER LEARN ANY SOCIAL GRACES??

WILL THEY EVER CHANGE THAT MISLEADING JOB AD??

WILL FST HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR A NEWCOMER FROM NAPLES WHO IS AFTER HER POSITION OF CHIEF BROWN NOSER????

WILL WE EVER FIND OUT WHO IS INTERNALLY GRATEFUL???

WILL ANYONE EVER CLEAN THAT BATHROOM????????

FIND OUT HERE, ON ESLWATCH.INFO