Alan The answer to disruptive kids ruining lessons for other kids is simple but not politically correct. You kick them out. Pupils have an absolute right , and a need, to get education without other kids ruining it. Obviously the disruptive kids need educating too. In truth, they need it more because they've got problems. So they should get their education separately and in a way which addresses their needs properly. It's a simple solution but probably complex and expensive in execution, but if you really want to give kids the best education then it has to be done. Part of the problem of comprehensives is that they fail to address the needs of kids of different aptitiudes and different abilities properly because they try to lump everyone together. One of the advantages of private education is that it has cherrypicked kids of a similiar ability and then the school can focus better. I was a teacher for 3 years. One of a teacher's biggest problems with mixed ability classes is the near impossibility of addressing 30 different kids' different needs in a 1 hour lesson. You give them a test. One kid might get 4 out of 10 and have done brilliantly for his ability. Another night get 8 and have done badly for his, yet you have to be seen to be even handed. And in my (limited)experience, by the way, a lot of disruptive kids are disruptive because the teacher can't handle them, or can't be bothered. You end up having to make a lot of compromises and it never works properly. So in a phrase. we need more selectivity and focus in education in order to allow schools to bring out the best in kids. People seem to be frightened to say it because theyre scared of stigmatizing some kids and branding them as failures. But that is only because you have a single means - GCSEs - of measuring the kids, with the result that GCSEs have to be watered down so that all kids can pass them and they become consequently meaningless.

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