Sleep, behaviour and achievement (2)

Hey! Guess what! My confiscation idea has already been done. There's me thinking I'm clever and it turns out that I don't have an original bone in my body. Apparently, a head teacher in Lewisham got in there about five years ago and began confiscating televisions and computers from grumpy, tired pupils - with, of course, parental permission. His name is Duncan Harper of New Woodlands School, a school for children with special needs including behavioural and emotional problems. He felt it was very successful and that children's behaviour improved both at home and at school.

And it seems that he didn't end up with school cupboards full of pupils' gadgets. Apparently, the loss in street cred linked to having your head teacher come around to your house and take away your belongings, was sufficient threat to make the pupils turn off their Ipods at an earlier hour. Fantastic!