A scene from Adolescence where Adam speaks to his dad about the meaning of certain emojis posted on Jamie's Instagram.

There are a few scenes from Adolescence’s second episode which really stuck with me – the school kids crowding around and filming as a fight broke out, Adam explaining incel culture to his detective dad, and that powerful moment where Jade opens up about the loneliness of losing her best friend.

The episode – set in a secondary school – was also littered with glimpses of disruptive pupils, brow-beaten teachers and, well, complete and utter chaos.

And I’m sure it left many people wondering: is this what UK schools are really like?

“I have watched it and feel that it is generally an accurate representation of what is going on in our schools,” Laura Gowers, an experienced secondary school teacher and founder of This is Dyslexia, told HuffPost UK.

She’s not alone – teachers recently opened up on Reddit about the show’s portrayal of secondary schools and many agreed it was “shockingly accurate”, to the point where staff said they felt triggered.

One teacher on the forum said: “It was the most accurate portrayal I’d seen of an English school on TV. I described it to my husband as ‘triggering’ and one of the........

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