Twitter may have given Struggle Street a reprieve, but two Mount Druitt community leaders were left hurt, angry and feeling sick when the credits rolled.

Director of education at Mount Druitt College Sharon Kerr, and head teacher of plumbing Norman Brown, switched on the much-maligned SBS show after watching more than 450 young people graduate from the TAFE on Wednesday afternoon.

"It just makes me feel ill," Mr Brown said of the observational documentary that centred on a Mount Druitt family struggling with drug dependence, violence, mental illness and a broken welfare system.