{"id":7131,"date":"2010-01-19T10:05:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7131"},"modified":"2010-01-19T10:05:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:05:29","slug":"classical-music-used-to-punish-school-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/classical-music-used-to-punish-school-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical music used to punish school children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detentions are <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/education\/8467347.stm\" target=\"_blank\">not what they used to be<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Detentions where pupils are forced to listen to classical music are an effective deterrent against unruly behaviour, a head teacher has found.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Walker, head at West Park School in Derby, runs the two-hour detentions, featuring Elgar, Mozart, Verdi and Bach, on a Friday after school.<\/p>\n<p>Pupils on their third official warning that week can expect to attend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I was in school things were much tougher: we were forced to listen to John Cage. It was so agonising, some of my friends cut off their own ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detentions are not what they used to be: Detentions where pupils are forced to listen to classical music are an effective deterrent against unruly behaviour, a head teacher has found. Brian Walker, head at West Park School in Derby, runs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/classical-music-used-to-punish-school-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[2206],"class_list":["post-7131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}