{"id":3195,"date":"2025-08-14T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/teens-taught-how-to-make-phone-calls-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:30:21","slug":"teens-taught-how-to-make-phone-calls-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/teens-taught-how-to-make-phone-calls-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens taught how to make phone calls in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-08-14 12:30:19<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Teenagers are being taught how to make phone calls in school.<BR><br \/>\nBacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School in Lancashire, North West England, are running workshops to teach their pupils how to speak to or email professionals, including university and admissions chiefs.<BR><br \/>\nThe scheme &#8211; which will run weekly for six months &#8211; was developed by the school because its pupils admitted they dread or feel anxious about phoning up university admissions teams.<BR><br \/>\nJames Johnstone, Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School&#8217;s principal, is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper as saying: &#8220;We see a reluctance to engage readily in dialogue.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-08-14 12:30:19 Teenagers are being taught how to make phone calls in school. Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School in Lancashire, North West England, are running workshops to teach their pupils&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}