The new building will take some pupils from the former David Lister school, which is planned to close in 2015 after going into special measures.

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But plans by Edinburgh City Council to close the school have provoked an outcry from its supporters.

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His two children had enrolled in the local school, and with Holiday's plans to relocate his family to Utah, the school's enrollment would drop from 71 to 69, which meant it would have to close and its teachers would have to find elsewhere to work.

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Singleton, of Lawn Close, Heanor, was suspended from his job and has since been dismissed by the school which said it was shocked and dismayed by his behaviour.

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Conversely, I graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts, arguably the best and most Hollywood-connected film school in the world, I had close to a 4.0 grade average, and I won several awards and scholarships.

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