To that end, it established a curricular innovation that required the presence of someone oddly known as an "AOT" - anyone other than a teacher. Their task was to bring the realities of business into the classroom, to assist learning and to serve as role models.
Their contribution was, perhaps inevitably, difficult to anticipate and often at odds with the values being cultivated elsewhere across the school timetable. Some teachers became angry at the use of "their" school for the peddling of untrammeled capitalism, the inherent merits of competition, and the implied rewards for those who "push" their way to the top. They wanted such rabid Thatcherites out.
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