The Telegraph – School uniforms return in drive to improve school discipline

School uniforms return in drive to improve school discipline
Old-fashioned uniforms will be brought back in secondary schools as part of a Government drive to improve classroom discipline and stamp out bad behaviour.
 
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent. Published by The Telegraph: 7:30AM BST 01 Oct 2009 http://tiny.cc/9s6py

Ed Balls, the Children’s Secretary, is writing to every local authority in the country demanding that school discipline is made a priority and setting out advice on how to achieve it, including the introduction of a “smart uniform policy”.

He will say that the evidence shows that bringing in old-fashioned uniforms for teenagers, including a blazer and tie, helps to “enforce the school’s authority”.

The move comes nearly two years after David Cameron, the Conservative leader, announced that under a Tory Government all pupils would be required to wear uniform at school.

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Another tired, bankrupt old policy surfaces again with vigour. Let’s face it all uniform does is reinforce to young people compulsion and attendance at ‘day prison’. ‘Enforcing authority’ is exactly what its about and nothing at all to do with education.

Given the continual bad behaviour and corruption rife within our political class perhaps they ought to take a dose of their own prescription… can’t wait to see them in the same colour blazers – they’ll look so sweet!