Home schooling.

[NorthernRaider]

Multi coloured hair, tattoos, unironed and unwashed uniforms, trousers unironed,shoes unpolished, sent to school without a proper breakfast, no manners, no discipline, texting during lessons, smoking in school, pregnant at 13, drink problems at 14, thieving, vandalism in a brand new school, absenteism supported by feckless parents, nits, unwashed clothes, lateness, no morals all typify the state system to one degree or another. But what really F**** up the schools is the comprehensive school system because all it does is drag everyone down to the lowest level. Grammar Schools, Technical Schools and Secondary Schools directed children into a school that best suited their needs and encouraged them to excel in their own fields. But Comps just drag the bright, academic and skilled down to the lowest level usually that of a disruptive chave who does not want to be at school.

Plus anything as BP say involving useful practical skills is banned under nurotic HSE rules.