So long as we encourage young women to have many children outside of marriage this situation will persist. There is absolutely no discipline at home and these children run riot. We have to get to the root of the problem.

TONY, DUBAI, UAE

The NSPCC and other bleeding heart pro Children's rights fools have given adult rights to a group (children) who have no concept of the associated responsibilities that come with those rights.

Until we go back to a system where children respect Teachers and Police nothing will change

Guy, London, UK

Salkaam

Muslim pupils as well as Muslim teachers have been victim of racial abuse for the last 50 years in schools. The Head teachers have tried to hide all such incidents under the carpets.

This is the main reason why the demand for state funded Muslim schools has been growing all the time. Bilingual Mulsim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models.

There are hundreds of state schools where Muslim pupils are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be designated as Muslim community schools

Iftikhar Ahmad, Forest Gate London, United Kingdom

I have the upmost sympathy for teachers that seem to have been left completely defenceless in the face of this onslaught!

If disruptive and violent pupils are not expelled, then chaos reigns supreme!

The government has even admitted that the softly softly approach to council estates etc were it flooded them with money, just didn't work, full stop.

This is exactly why so many schools have failed for so long!

It's been said so many times, that only a handful of disruptive kids can completely wreck a school! Why is this behaviour still being tolerated?? Why are so many having their education blighted by the mindless few?

There should be a website for teachers, which allows them to anonymously report violent and abusive behaviour to OFSTED. The website should also allow them to say whether they feel that they have been given adequate support or not from the school. If head teachers can't act decisively, sack them.

Graham Wharton, St. Albans, uk

Children need discipline at home, at school and in society.
Parents teachers and authorities must have the powers to discipline children in a way that the children will fear.

All these child pchycology programs are great, but only for people with the IQ to understand them and follow through.
Usually these people are good parents anyway!

Children are not scared of anything and have no consiense.
That must change now. Send them to army style boearding schools. They have to learn discipline of a young lifetime in a matter of a few years and it needs to be tough - before they are to strong and old enough to become hard criminals.

Just imagine what Britain will be like when these 10 year old gangsters reach their twenties, god (anyone one will do) save us !

Chris, Preston, UK

Remove government involvement and let parents, teachers and associations run schools. With each new minister yet another headline grabbing idea, that achieves nothing more than tie up schools in red tape. We go around and around whilst another generation of young students suffers. It is a bloody nonsense !

Wills, Soton, UK

The only way to deal with this is to get tough. Take out children who are disturbed/violent immediately - put them in a specialist school. Then the children who are reasonably behaved can have a chance of an education! Stop pandering to pathetic parents. The children are suffering, the teachers are suffering, society is suffering. Time to get tough NOW!

jenny, swindon, uk

State schools need to have a change in culture to have a change in pupils behaviour.
Changes need to be made by education establishments rather than just blaming parents, government and society in general. Instead education needs to step up and start to make radical changes.

The first thing that needs to be changed is how the students look.

All schools should go back to a smart uniform which is strictly enforced, as individuals behave differently if dressed 'the part'. Let them dress like hooligans in either their own clothes or a very messy uniform and they will behave like hooligans.

Dress them in a smart uniform including ties, blazers and real shirts (rather than polo shirts) and their behaviour will change because they will feel smarter and therefore behave better within the classroom, they will, in effect, conform.

Ten. (A Teacher), Brighton, England

More and more teachers are leaving the profession every year. Can't blame them!

A teacher at a local school threatened a student with a detention for her bad behaviour, she replied that she would tell someone he touched her and get him into trouble. Standing his ground, he proceeded to issue her with a detention, but she told the school he touched her and he was suspended. Even though the other students said it was completely untrue. His career could be ruined for life.

Kate, Kent, England

It is quite true to say, as Pete did, that punishment is not the answer with "disturbed" children. But those children cannot be educated together with ordinary children. The cult of inclusiveness has gone too far when it destroys the atomsphere of calm concentration that is essential to most forms of systematic learning.

I think the present problems could be solved by two complementary policies. First, all children who are unmanageably disruptive must be removed permanently from ordinary schools and educated in special schools where their needs are the staff's only concern. Inevitably, it will cost much more to put a child through such a special school; but that is the price of our conviction that everyone deserves an equal chance. Second, all the children remaining in ordinary schools must be subjected to traditional discipline. That means doing what they are told quickly and politely; keeping quiet; and generally behaving themselves. If that requires physical punishment, so be it.

Tom Welsh, Basingstoke,

All that is needed is return to discipline in school and parents taking responsibility for their offspring. Perhaps too much to ask under this government.

Hamad Lone, London, England

Some of these children are very disturbed and there are no easy answers. Smacking or caning are not necessarily an answer either. However, any child will respond to fear and it is about time that we took the gloves off and made these difficult children very aware of the consequences of their actions. If any human being realises that the consequences of their actions is going to be something very unpleasant that they will dislike then they are less likely to carry out their actions. However, in the era of human rights and the rights of the child, who has the courage among the gutless wonders in Westminster to grasp the nettle.

Pete, Lincoln, England

These statistics probably don't include the younger children either. I work in a Primary school and was kicked only the other day by an Autistic child who was lashing out in an enclosed space. Schools can be not unlike circuses these days and adults are in the firing line. The pay doesn't reflect the seriousness of the assaults....naturally. We are all just expected to get on with it.

judy, Liverpool, England