But if Spain is to be the good pupil of southern Europe, it also wants to be teacher's pet.

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You'll feel like the teacher's pet in one of the Inn's cosy guest rooms, but you aren't here to linger indoors.

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Then there was the North Yorkshire community school which had turned the Pi into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) reader to measure lap times in their cross-country races, and the London independent school whose pupils had come up with Teacher's Pet, a way of delivering homework via USB sticks plugged into the tiny computer.

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