Not content with presiding over the destruction of education content or slandering the Prince of Wales for expressing his despair over such trends (see posts below) our anti-Education Secretary Charles Clarke has further distinguished himself by telling schools that don't have their fair share of disruptive pupils that they will be forced to take in pupils who have been expelled from other schools for disruptive behaviour.

Dear oh dear. What moral, intellectual and political bankruptcy is here. What ignorance, stupidity and sheer vindictiveness. Not content with having ruined education by the philosophy of dumbing everyone down to the lowest common denominator in the service of 'equality', Clarke is now going to cap this by imposing an equality of disruptive misery and chaos. The reward for an orderly school is now to be made disorderly. Unbelievable.

In any event, the policy of forcing any school to accommodate disruptive children in the cause of 'social inclusion' is profoundly wrong. Wrong for the schools and and wrong for the disruptive pupils themselves. Such children, who increasingly present severe emotional problems, need specialist education and help of the sort that was once provided in specialist schools. These were shut down because they cost a lot of money and because they got up the noses of ideological councils, who believed in equality of misery -- forcing schools to educate disturbed or out-of-control children alongside everyone else. The result has been chaos in the schools which simply can't cope with such children; disrupted education for other children in the school; teachers driven to the edge and sometimes over it altogether; and very bad news for the disruptive pupils themselves, who are often hived off to substandard sin-bins within the school where they progressively sink into further disaffection, truancy and crime. Instead of reinstituting the specialist help these children need, Clarke is now going to spread the chaos into other schools -- with the result that their own pupils will suffer. And what a moral lesson, too, in which children behave badly and the rest of the community has to pay.

What an objectionable and astonishing travesty of ministerial responsibility.