Full text of Charles Clarke's Discipline in Schools speechWhy discipline things
Every day around 50000 pupils miss school without permission. Bad behaviour disrupts education at one in twelve secondary schools, according to Ofsted. And four out of five secondary pupils say some of their classmates regularly try to disrupt lessons.
The mission of this government is to raise educational standards. But you can't raise standards if pupils miss school and behave badly when they are there. Attendance and kindly behaviour are preconditions for effective learning. Tackling poor behaviour is as much portion of improving pupil performance as kindly teaching. There are two other reasons why we must tackle the behaviour problem.
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Source: theguardian.com