The school where every teacher will be a soldier

Manchester

proposal coincides with the so-called government of former members of the armed forces to take on teaching

evokes the image of a sergeant major with a red face screaming 3B trembling child who has forgotten his math homework. But supporters of a free school proposed to be composed entirely of former soldiers say parade of humiliation is the last thing on their minds.

However, Phoenix Free School in Manchester could provide students with ambitious academic goals, outdoor activities and a demonstration of "martial values."

In the modern army, he said, these values ??are "self-discipline, respect and listening." There will be high standards of behavior - but not required "to down and give me 50 ". The new school from 11 to 18, which has yet to find a place, it is proposed by the Centre for Policy Studies, a think tank, and is supported by Lord Guthrie, former Chief of Defence.

Its main objective is army captain, Affan Burki, and can be placed in the land army surplus, such as "disused TA [Territorial Army] piercing room."

Tom Burkard, a research think tank that is on the school steering committee expected, said: "I want out of the idea that this will be a greenhouse or a sin bin

"I want to make sure that children are there because they want to be there you need a stick somewhere -.. But if you have to use very often lost the battle "

Burkard done in the case of the school in a written report with the Burki captain.

said: "All the old remedies to poverty, poor performance and alienation have been tested to destruction The consequences have been starkly before us in the streets of Tottenham and Croydon But before putting the troops in the streets .. should consider that in our schools. "

The proposal comes as the Ministry of Defence gave details of his social and agrees with the government's plans to encourage former members of the armed forces to take on teaching by providing sponsorship and a Bachelor of road expressway.

In a speech Thursday, Education Secretary Michael Gove said he wanted children to have male models. A quarter of primary schools in England, about 4000, are not teachers.

Gove also announced that the Ministers are to scrap a requirement for teachers to record cases where the use of physical force, as part of a larger movement to "restore adult authority, "after the riots.

• In a speech at the Academy of Durand of Stockwell, south London, said Gove regulations on the use of force inhibition test teachers: "If all parents now hear that" School Sorry, we can 't physically touch students after school is wrong. simply not true. The rules have changed. "
• Gove has a moral distinction between a "working majority" and a "vicious, minorities outside the law, morality." But he went to examine what he said policy failures were behind the "low-class education." He said: "To study where looters have not come to apologize because the background is to shed light on the failures that led to bad policy, bad priorities, and deliberate weakening of legitimate authority .. "
Gove said there had been a slow erosion of adult authority, subverted by a culture in which young people feel able to ignore the civilized limits. "The only way to reverse this solution is the legitimate authority, step by step to move the pawl for new teachers."

Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of Heads of School and College, welcomed the declaration of Gove in the use of force against students.

He said: ".. The use of physical restraint is fortunately very rarely necessary on occasions when it is needed, it is a detailed guide and staff understand the need to follow the letter "

The team behind the school free of Phoenix is ??seeking a partnership with an existing sponsor of the Academy. They have not yet submitted a proposal, but we hope to open in September 2013, unless your application can be accelerated. If successful, the school would be the first of a string.

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