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Philistines and other social problems

It was a depressing moment when this news story made the front page of the BBC website ‘ Pupils forced to listen to Mozart’.  The head of West Park School in Derby, Brian Walker, punishes his students in detention by making them listen to classical music, “featuring Elgar, Mozart, Verdi and Bach.”  They are often also forced to watch an educational video, such as the ’story of math’.

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