And yet there he was, standing in front of a school assembly in a suit and black tennis shoes.
Union executive Paul Desgranges, from Sheffield, told the conference one head had told pupils at a school assembly that if they were behaving badly, it was because their teachers were "not reaching them".
About 900 school pupils remembered teenage sisters Hanin and Basma at a special assembly at their school, Crest Girls' Academy, on Monday.
They are currently in production on a "Kind Kit" which will include a recorded version of their school assembly program, the film "Finding Kind, " and a yearlong curriculum they say is endorsed by self-esteem expert and author Jessica Weiner (who also appears in the documentary).
We took Jacob Ganz, our intrepid director-producer, and I went and saw the Hot 8 perform at a Harlem high school - the Urban Assembly High School for Performing Arts in Harlem - this is part of their tour.
The prospect of free morning meals has been brought a step closer, with the Welsh Assembly Government announcing that every primary school child will get a free meal by September 2006.
He lists manufacturing jobs as a leading example, saying that well-paid assembly jobs that require modest training and only a high school diploma or less are a thing of the past.
Instead we get Teaching By Rote 2.0 and a deeper entrenchment of the school-as-assembly-line model.
School headmaster Alan Boxford - who held a special assembly on Wednesday in memory of Laura - said she had been an excellent student.
At the last general election Labour made pledges on cutting primary school class sizes, introducing legislation for a Welsh Assembly in the first year, cutting NHS waiting lists by an extra 100, 000, getting 250, 000 under-25s off benefit and into work (around 13, 000 in Wales), and setting tough rules for government spending and borrowing.
Victoria Beckham did eventually rise from her seat looking deeply embarrassed and hopelessly exposed, like a naughty child made to stand in front of the entire school during morning assembly.
In 2008, a report on the attendance and behaviour of school pupils recommended that the former Welsh assembly government consider legislation to inspect home educators and asses whether children's needs were being met.
The programme states that that schools should be fit for purpose and that a major capital investment programme to upgrade school buildings, exceeding the sums provided during the previous assembly term, should be continued.
Mr Lewis told assembly members there was a "fall off in activity" between primary and secondary school, and the problem was worse for girls compared to boys.
Also present at the assembly were Amber Charles, a London 2012 youth ambassador, and children from Langdon School in East Ham, east London, who were in Singapore for the announcement.
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An incident at his school when he was a teenager, which the court heard was a chlorine attack on an assembly, had only involved a test tube and no-one was hurt, Mr Railton said.
Another worker, who would identify himself only as Mr. Xiao, started as an assembly-line worker almost three years ago, just after graduating from a technical school in central China, where Hon Hai recruited him.
Never mind the WWII-style evacuee dress we've also just had to buy for the class assembly - I remember going to school wrapped in an old dust sheet to be a shepherd.
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