{School} Head takes pupils' home computers (BBC)

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A head teacher is taking children's computers and TVs from their bedrooms in an effort to improve behaviour.

Duncan Harper, of New Woodlands School, which deals with pupils excluded from other primary schools in Lewisham, south London, said standards had risen.

Parents gave permission for him to enter their houses after he told them pupils were arriving tired and irritable every morning.

Mr Harper said stopping computer and TV use at night made a "real difference".
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One pupil, who had had his television confiscated, noticed an improvement in his own behaviour and, when it was returned, decided he no longer wanted it.
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