"School tearaways are to be offered mountain bikes and iPods in return for good behaviour.In a government campaign against soaring indiscipline, teachers are being told to reward disruptive pupils with prizes and privileges.
Badly-behaved youngsters must be praised five times as often as they are punished or criticised under guidelines unveiled by Education Secretary Alan Johnson.
They can be offered prizes and privileges ranging from non-uniform days and extended breaktimes to CDs, cinema tickets, personal music players and state-of-the-art bicycles. "
Of course, the better-behaved children will never think to play up so that they too can join in. All that is needed is for none of these to notice what is happening and then to overcome the fundamental immorality of the scheme and away you go.
I am certain that this will not add to the considerable problems already caused to teachers by the spoilt, the over-indulged and the molly-coddled.
Fancy people thinking that this is the most ill-conceived piece of lunacy to originate from the out-of-touch liberal left amongst countless other pieces of politically correct idiocy.
