He was the naughtiest boy at school and could easily have gone off the rails. But Drew Povey, the head teacher who stars in the reality TV series Educating Greater Manchester, has transformed not only his own life but also the fortunes of what was once known as the worst school in the country.
It is not just that the GCSE pass rate at Harrop Fold School, in Salford, has tripled while the exclusion rate has gone to zero Writing people off is terrible, Povey said. It is also the money: by cutting staff, pushing class sizes to 35 and paying the thousands of pounds an hour that he earns from motivational speaking…
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