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Making mobile phone apps and learning Spanish in city restaurants is more important than Pythagoras' Theorem, according to a head teacher.Executive head of the Trent Academies Group Phil Crompton is trying to remove the "curriculum straitjacket" from the three Nottinghamshire schools he oversees. As a result students at Rushcliffe School, Arnold Hill Academy and Farnborough Academy are teaming up with local businesses to gain skills that could lead to jobs in the future. Mr...