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Article: Most bad behaviour in classrooms is caused by things we can do something about.(News)

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February 17, 2005
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Recent weeks have seen a spate of headlines that portrayed English school classrooms as in a state of increasing disorder.

The English Chief Inspector in his annual report talked about a group of schools that showed high levels of unruly behaviour, and there was almost universal condemnation of standards of young people's behaviour from head teachers, teacher unions and politicians of all parties.

I suspect things are not as bad in Wales but are probably getting worse. ...

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