Trawl the newspaper archives for articles on young people's behaviour and you can be pretty certain the descriptions "antisocial", "worst in Europe" and "problem" won't be far away.
The Ministry of Defence is already involved in an initiative to encourage ex-military workers to enter teaching. Now, in an explicit bid to instil discipline and improve behaviour, the government is being urged to adopt a US-style programme to train former military personnel as teachers in inner-city schools.
Tom Burkhard, author of the Troops to Teachers report for the Centre for Policy Studies (see Research Centre, p28), says the scheme is necessary. "Ex-servicemen are not intimidated by adrenaline-fuelled adolescents - they have been there before," he says. "Their job is to transform raw recruits into young people capable of doing difficult and dangerous jobs."
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