This could be a Conservative vote winner.
Disruptive pupils will be sent to tough new day units and subjected to "no-nonsense discipline" under Tory education plans to be unveiled this week.
No doubt the actual details of the policy will involve the odd spot of nonsense, but I'm talking politics here, and politics is always nonsensical.
There are plenty of people in the upper reaches of the Government who understand that discipline is crucial to making state school function adequately, and that the key to discipline is being able to exclude unruly pupils. But lower down in the system are people who fatuously hope to achieve discipline without either violence or exclusion. "Society" must be "inclusive" blah blah. Can't be done. The Conservatives have a strong issue here.
Good Lord. It's about the only election promise that might actually work on me, regardless of the originating party. My school all but admitted the other week that some students had become 'untouchables' - we're not able to exclude them, we're not able to teach them, and the sole function of their presence in school is to keep them from the streets, and provide them with a constant stream of unwitting victims.
All this aside - who would actually wish to vote for the Tories nowadays? They seem to be almost exactly the same party as the one currently in power!
It just goes to show that politicians will say anything to grab a few votes out of old Conservative voters.
