In the decade since the Michaela Community School opened in northwest London, the publicly funded but independently run secondary school has emerged as a leader of a movement convinced that children from disadvantaged backgrounds need strict discipline, rote learning and controlled environments to succeed.
Under a policy called Slant, the students, aged 11 and 12, were barred from looking away. When a digital bell beeped (traditional clocks are not precise enough, the principal said) the students walked quickly and silently to the cafeteria in a single line.
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