Inevitably, when it comes to the "bright idea", more timid students adopt or adapt one of the initiatives currently in vogue - such as electronic tagging or drug testing in schools. More creative and imaginative students, however, come up with ideas further from the beaten track, for which I try to give them credit, though I do not always subscribe to what they are proposing. Indeed, sometimes I wonder where the ideas have come from. A couple of years ago, one student suggested that all secondary school age girls should have compulsory contraceptive implants - which, it has to be admitted, would certainly solve the "problem" of under-age teenage pregnancy, but not the rising tide of sexually transmitted infections.
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