Some 300 schools have adopted the Rights, Respect and Responsibilitiesprogramme since the council introduced it two years ago. The programmeis based on the premise that if children understand that they have aright to an education, they will understand that teachers have a rightto teach.
Conservative councillor David Kirk, Hampshire's cabinet member foreducation, said: "We have seen the results of two years' worth of theprogramme in practice, and it is less bullying, less disruption in theclassroom, and higher self-esteem and aspirations in children."
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