How To Get England Back

A school has banned its pupils from using "street slang" as part of a strict behaviour policy which is transforming its exam results.

Pupils are not allowed to use the phrase "innit" or other examples of "playground patois" when talking to teachers. Formal language must be used at all times in communications with adults and pupils have been told that street slang should be "left at the school gates".

The measure, along with a strict uniform policy, is part of a tough stance on discipline at Manchester Academy, in the city's deprived Moss Side area, has restored order. Since the school became an academy in 2003, exam results have improved from about 10 per cent of pupils achieving five good GCSEs to 33 per cent and the proportion who leave without a job or college course to go to is down from 26 to 6 per cent.

In truth, UK appears to be in need of such measures universally. There is more than one generation that is in need of correction, but since you can't reasonably correct adults in such a fashion, universal correction of the younger generation for at least the next 2 generations will be necessary to instill the correct virtues. You'll end up with younger people who have a better outlook and are more virtuous than their parents, but that's all you can expect at this point, when the ball has been dropped on discipline for so long.