THE Government is to give a disruptive pupil allowance to every school thus afflicted, although it has not been made clear just how throwing money at this problem will serve to cure it.
No doubt the troublemakers will be sent on "adventure holidays" which law-abiding and hard-working taxpayers will have to pay for, although few could afford these for themselves.
It is abundantly clear that with such "punishments" awarded to the troublemakers the incidence of disruption will increase in direct proportion to the allowances available, with the children being shrewder than the do-gooders.
Issuing every headmaster with a stout cane would be much more effective and cheaper.
N.G. Charnley,
Chesterfield Road,
Blackpool.
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