SIN BIN’ SCHOOLS FOR UNRULY PUPILS
Disruptive children are to be educated in “sin bin” schools that will concentrate
on basic skills with longer teaching days, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
A government review after last summer’s riots is to recommend...
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SIN BIN’ SCHOOLS FOR UNRULY PUPILS
Disruptive children are to be educated in “sin bin” schools that will concentrate
on basic skills with longer teaching days, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
A government review after last summer’s riots is to recommend wide-ranging
powers for institutions teaching those expelled from mainstream schools.
Ministers will this week announce that the schools, to be known as pupil referral
units, will be able to become academies with the power to set their own
timetables, curriculum and staff wages.
They are designed to tackle what ministers have branded the “educational
underclass”.
Head teachers have already been given powers to make it
easier to expel unruly children.
It is hoped that the disruptive pupils can be
moved more quickly to the special units.
The proposals form the central recommendations of a review of school
discipline and truancy conducted by Charlie Taylor, a headmaster and the
Government’s behaviour adviser.
The review is underst
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