The paper was reporting on a government-funded report, which says teachers should be flexible when dealing with children from Gypsy and Traveller families. It calls for a "problem-solving approach to behaviour and attendance issues" and says secondary schools should adopt a "flexible attendance policy", allowing time off for cultural or family events. "Furious campaigners said it would create a chaotic 'two-tier' system," said the Express, which did not reveal who these campaigners were or what they were campaigning about. It seems the paper has taken a somewhat flexible approach to the facts.
Teachers in the UK will be familiar with the practical jokes pupils pull. So they might feel a sliver of sympathy for a high school principal in Massachusetts, US, who has been forced to take action to stamp out a craze of "meeping".
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