Sadly a more likely memorial is that some bottom line moralists will see the demise of expensive and perhaps even impossible troublemakers as a Good Thing, and will condone reduction of the problem for the rest of us. As one hears the Crays did to baddies in their day, with police knowledge. At £40 000 pa for jail for 50 years, each hit would save us cool two million before crime damage, suffering and justice costs. Hopefully, enlightenment thinking will prevent this. But what’s to do?
Smaller better schools catering for each child are essential. Perhaps the independent school system of houses, with a celeb housemaster the kids are loyal to (an MU player, DJ, rapper or converted poacher, all CRB checked – ah, that’s a PC rub) backed up by a form tutor in groups of twelve. The tutor ideally would have the first lesson free to handle lates and issues, instead of having to rush off to teach or to assembly. And the houseperson would have time to visit the afterschool extension school, to commend the homework done before hometime, and set the pace for the evening’s reading and study. The cost of all this would still be less than the two million a head of the present system. And it might just produce taxpayers capable of raising a balanced family.
Postscript
The hard bit of writing this piece was all the omitted issues. If it’s a problem in a blog, spare a thought for the mainstream hack trying to say all within the few words of a tabloid piece or three soundbytes. No wonder, like our transatlantic cousins, we are tempted to marinade our educare in prozac.
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