MrPVRd
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Does anyone know anything about this nonsense, which seems more likely to be a fantasy spin story leaked from Whitehall?
From the Sunday Mirror:
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/...694&headline=war-on-class-yobs-name_page.html
From the Sunday Mirror:
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/...694&headline=war-on-class-yobs-name_page.html
WAR ON CLASS YOBS
Apr 24 2005
By Paul Gilfeather Political Editor
TOUGH Army veterans will be sent into Britain's schools to wage war on classroom thugs who terrorise teachers.
The news of "Operation Blackboard" comes as shock figures reveal that assaults on teaching staff have rocketed over the past 12 months.
Desperate ministers at the Department of Education - inundated with complaints from terrified teaching staff - sent out a distress signal to Ministry of Defence officials.
And the MoD responded with a "guns for hire" offer which will see retired officers parachuted into hundreds of classrooms around the country. Fifty teams of ex-Army, Navy and RAF personnel have signed up.
As well as playing bodyguard to staff, the military men will drill 6,000 of the worst offenders in discipline and motivation.
A Whitehall source said: "Staff have enough to contend with without the added threat of attack hanging over them.
"Drastic action is needed and tests have shown that sending in hard men from the Forces really works."
Ofsted inspectors have drawn up a hit list of 200 problem schools. The worst troublemakers will be forced to drop two GCSEs, freeing up time for special lessons on how to behave. Another option being considered is to send disruptive pupils to boarding school