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Unruly Pupils Go Private
The government adviser, Sir Cyril Taylor, chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust, is calling on independent schools to take in disruptive state school pupils at a rate of one or two pupils in every year group.
The idea was even discussed during the election campaign by the Labour party Education Secretary Ruth Kelly who was said to be 'looking at proposals to send disruptive pupils to state boarding schools for a set time'.
However, there are other avenues in which to pursue—in the US the students at the Henry Ford Academy (HFA) have full access to Greenfield Village, the 90-acre site that hosts 82 historic buildings, many collected and reassembled by the Ford Motoring Company. Classrooms for the sophomores, juniors, and seniors are nestled at the back of the village between the Suwanee Lagoon, where a paddlewheel boat churns the water, and Walnut Grove, where reenactors stage Civil War battles and period baseball games. In ten minutes, students can walk to Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright brothers' bicycle shop, and dozens of other buildings where they can immerse themselves in America's history firsthand rather than simply reading about it in textbooks.
The resources available to the 450 students at HFA may be unique, but the idea of integrating schools into community institutions is not. Daunted by the costs of creating schools from the ground up, school districts have begun to explore the idea of sharing facilities with local organizations from museums and zoos to health care centers and retail outlets.
Filed by DK on May 14 2005
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