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Schools ‘hire ex-Navy personnel’ to drag naughty kids out of bed
01 July 2015
Javier Espinoza reporting for the Telegraph, featured Dame Sharon Hollows strategies on closing the gap, speaking at the Sutton Trust/Education Endowment Foundation Summit.
Schools are hiring ex-Navy personnel and former police officers to go knock on pupils’ homes and force them out of bed and into school, a headteacher has said.
Dame Sharon Hollows, who has used government funding to hire an unmarked car to go around knocking on the doors of pupils who fail to turn up, said a growing number of schools in the country are using similar strategies.
She also said she has seen the gap between disadvantaged and other pupils close.
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