From the Daily Mail (UK) By Max Hastings
Last updated at 2:02 AM on 29th March 2010
The murder of 15-year- old Sofyen Belamouadden is an especially shocking gang crime because it was carried out in the midst of Victoria station, by boys apparently wearing school blazers.
It is tragically easy to imagine the horrors of life in the sort of classrooms the murderers come from.
We have grown accustomed to the existence of feral children - violent, amoral, unteachable and later unemployable - in many parts of Britain.
It is easy to identify their immediate victims, fellow teenagers who are bullied and occasionally killed. But beyond these, a much larger host pays the price: millions of children who want to equip themselves to lead decent lives.
Indiscipline and violence are viruses, which infect all those around them. In classrooms up and down the land, they make it impossible for many teachers to teach and their pupils to be educated.
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