Under the Education and Inspections Act, teachers can now use weekenddetention, confiscate mobile phones and punish pupils for bad behaviournot just in school but on the way to and from school.
Education secretary Alan Johnson said the measures gave heads andteachers the power to deal with poor behaviour swiftly and decisively."They will now be able to send out a strong message to troublemakersthat if they misbehave, they can expect to be punished," he said.
Chris Keates, general secretary of the teachers' union NASUWT, welcomedthe fact that teachers could now discipline pupils for incidentsoff-site. "Schools can now be confident of their right to challengeyoungsters who bully others on the journey to and from school, behaveinappropriately on public transport or use technology in the comfort oftheir own home to abuse staff," she said.
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