The Centre for Policy Studies has stated in a new report that the UK
should develop a system like the Troops to Teachers scheme in the US
to help address the issue of poor behaviour in inner-city schools.
Having ex-soldiers as teachers would offer a number of benefits, the
thinktank says, giving pupils a more rigid discipline structure and
providing ex-servicemen with meaningful employment.
Lord Guthrie writes in the foreword to the report that placing ex-
servicemen in schools is a 'possible answer' to the problems of
increasing violence in schools and inner-city communities.
'It will provide youths with role models who understand discipline and
self-restraint at the time in their lives when they need it most,' he
wrote.
Further to this Lord Guthrie points out that such a scheme has already
seen success in the US and would work well in the UK.
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