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This teacher took an idea from The King’s Speech, a 2010 film about Britain’s King George VI learning to manage a serious speaking difficulty, and tried it in a real classroom.
Matthew Burton was teaching at Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury, a town in northern England. In 2013, the school was being filmed for Educating Yorkshire, a documentary series shown on Channel 4, a British television broadcaster.
One of Burton’s pupils was Musharaf Asghar, known as Mushy. He had a severe stutter and was preparing for the spoken part of his English exam, taken by teenagers in England before they leave secondary school.
Burton remembered the film scene where the king speaks while sound plays through headphones. He put headphones on Mushy, played music by Ben Howard, and asked him to read a poem by Margaret Atwood.
With the music in his ears, Mushy spoke with far less struggle.
The method helped him complete his speaking exam, and that classroom moment became one of the most remembered scenes from Educating Yorkshire.
@scottwestacre Oh, I have my eyes open. Painting gold on statues, painting blue on a pool bottom - waste of money for a grifter who thinks only of himself. Public lands auctioned off; gutting food assistance for the poor. DHS gets 150 vehicles, GEO gets prisons.
@RWPUSA Saw a great story on the Yellowstone Club. Their goal is to encircle a swath of land that will now be private. The new Epstein Island. The federal land in the swap has lower wildlife and recreation value.