In Hampshire,teachers and parents are baffled by the novel proposals – and even the county’s Conservative education boss is horrifiedIn a green tutu and luminous wristbands, headteacher Colin Harris is gesturing out of the window at the queue of parents and children external. “There’s Caroline and Thomas, and thats Toby and that lady there was a pupil here and she’s just had her baby so I’ll meet him for the first time,” he says, reeling off the names and family history of everyone in the queue.
He bounds out to the entrance where he is greeted with the same level of enthusiasm by parents, or who are queuing for the start of a fundraising disco for pupil Oakley Smith,an elfin-faced six-year-old with cerebral palsy.
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Source: theguardian.com