With the hardest working pupils and with the chair throwers, sustained, consistent relationships work.
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, says that pupils' hard work demands a system that gets the marks right first time.
"He hits hard, works hard.
Play hard, work hard, repeat.
The improvement in results was welcomed by the government and teachers, who said it was testimony to the hard work of pupils and schools, but it will inevitably spark another row about exam standards as the pass rate edges towards 100%.
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT teachers' union, said that while the results were the culmination of hard work by pupils and their teachers, it would be "subsumed in the political game playing in which the examination system is now embroiled".
He added: "This has been another successful year which is testament to the hard work that pupils have put into their courses.
Wouldn't hard-working, law-abiding pupils be annoyed at the limelight going, almost exclusively, to the minority of troublemakers? "I asked if one episode could be devoted to the 90% of kids who turn up at school every day, do the right thing and don't make a lot of noise.
