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MARIE STUBBS Ahead of the Class: How an Inspiring Headmistress Gave Children Back Their Future
London, John Murray. 2003, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0719563356) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Here is the inspiring story of how, in a single year, a dynamic headmistress rescued a failing and despairing inner-city comprehensive threatened with closure. Imagine a school where the staff are too fearful to leave the staffroom at breaktime, where stealing and absenteeism are rife, where vicious fights continually break out in the bleak playground, and children wander the corridors chatting on mobile phones. Now imagine a school where children turn up early to have breakfast and play football in a playground furnished with goalposts, tables and attractive plants; where the cheerfully painted corridors are empty and classrooms full during lessons, where classical music plays over the intercom. This is the transformation that headmistress Marie Stubbs effected at St George`s, an inner-city comprehensive in London`s Maida Vale. The school had gone into a steep decline after the murder of its head, Philip Lawrence, outside the school gates in 1995. When Marie Stubbs took over it was threatened with closure after a damning Ofsted report. The heartwarming story of how she and her chosen task force turned round a school that had lost hope is inspiring. New/New.
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