He saw that it was becoming popular on YouTube (which has reported over 44 million views) and wanted to bring it to his school while the trend was still on the upswing, or should I say upshake?

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"It's not something a lot of kids like to talk about with their parents and they may not want to bring it up at school either, " says Mr. McCullough.

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The few times my boys at school tried to bring it up, I flipped.

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School report cards could bring a better and fairer way of measuring school performance, although it is interesting to note that there are currently no proposals for report cards in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - where league tables are no loner published.

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And because we knew during registration that we just had a number of kids who were out of school for three months, six months, were not in any school at all, we needed it to bring back direct instruction.

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School officials plead that it will take years to bring their institutions up to speed.

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