Moving the kids, but not solving the problem

An interesting development in education; in response to a £10m government initiative to expand state boarding school provision it has been reported that a primary school in Brixton is planning to open a boarding school for the pupils once they become teenagers.

In a bid to remove children from the dangers of growing up in Lambeth, some pupils will go to a Mon-Fri boarding school outside London. There are several unused boarding schools (which have gone bust) that the government are apparently looking into getting up and running again, but as state schools.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jun/29/lambeth-boarding-school-teenagers

The announcement follows the release of government stats last week reveleaing that 8.5% of 16-year-old boys had carried knives to protect themselves, with disproportionately high levels in the capital and other urban areas.