Re: Bottom of the Class
how about giving kids something to do other than drink, smoke, hang out on street corners and mug old ladies?
Community centres, sports teams etc.
Oh and making education actually relevant and useful to the kids would probably be a start.
The national curriculum is bullshit - how many of them give a shit about WW2 or trigonometry? They need to be taught how to get a job.
I remember jokingly saying years ago that anyone failing GCSE's (without a good reason) should get put down as they're so easy anyone should be able to get a basic pass.
I'd still be interested to see what happened if they implemented a "at 16 you get a choice: 2 years of college, training of some sort of military service" policy.
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