When I came back from working overseas, an ex colleague had arranged for me to have a job in a school in Sunderland. As a southerner, I discounted what I'd been told about Sunderland. I've taught in pretty hard schools before and had no problems.
This place though. It wasn't the students, although they were pretty tough, it was the management. It was one of those academy chains and the executive head thought that because his methods had worked in one school, they'd work in all.
I would say their treatment of the students bordered on abusive. Within 6 months they'd expelled over half of the student body. Absence was a huge problem, so once the students were in school, they were NOT allowed to go home for any reason. Vomiting students would be sent back to class with a sick bag.
Teachers were bullied too. So many went off sick from it that half of the staff were being covered by supply teachers. One of whom would come by my classroom crying at the end of every day.
I had four different teaching timetables in 3 months. Each time the timetable changed, I'd get different classes of children. Books were never forwarded.
I stuck it for 3 months and then finally decided that I'd rather do supply work than stay any longer. They gave me a big bunch of flowers when I left, which I gave to a neighbour. Didn't want them in my house!