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To help steer a group of local at-risk youth away from the potential pitfalls of unemployment, drug use and gang membership, a team of coaches will attempt to turn their lives around through a mix of intensive educational and physical challenges.

The School of Hard Knocks is open for another season, this time in the Bay of Plenty. With high rates of unemployment, drug use and gang membership in the area, our team of coaches attempt to turn around the lives of a group of at-risk youth.

All Black Nehe Milner-Skudder shares his techniques for dealing with mental stress and pressures, while the students must step up to run a quick-rip rugby tournament for young children.

The coaches must act as student behaviour in the classroom quickly deteriorates, before the arrival of Police Constable and Black Fern Selica Winiata.

Kaya tells his incredible story of handing in his gang-patch for the sake of his baby daughter, and the team face some stiff opposition on the touch-rugby field.

Sir John Kirwan sets the group on its final gut-busting challenge, and the group must look forward to life beyond the School of Hard Knocks classroom.