A leading headmaster is calling for a fresh crackdown on the “massive evil” of illegal drugs, with an instant expulsion for any pupil caught taking them.
Anthony Seldon, head of ?24,441-a-year Wellington College in Berkshire warns today that social attitudes to recreational narcostics has become far too lax.
He will tell the annual Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference – an organisation representing the country’s leading independent schools – that part of the solution to the nation’s growing drugs problem is to teach children how to be happy without them and will warn the conference in Bournemouth that rising rates of mental illess are being fuelled by the “cataclsymic” use of illegal and prescription drugs.
Evening Standard
