LONDON - BRITISH schools are reportedly hiring nightclub bouncers and former soldiers to help control their students.
The annual National Union of Teachers conference in Cardiff, Wales, heard that 'stern and loud' bouncers were being hired as teaching assistants reported AAP on Monday.
Andrew Baisley, a London head teacher, told conference goers that his school had hired two bouncers from an employment agency to cover for two absent teachers.
They were paid about £20,000 (S$41,350) a year, but one of the bouncers quit after a dispute with other teachers.
"It is about crowd control and child minding," Mr Baisley told Britain's Daily Telegraph.
"If you are stern and loud, that's what's necessary to do the job."
The conference also heard how a Birmingham employment agency had advertised for "an ex-marine, prison officer, bouncer, policeman, fireman, sportsman (or) actor" to "control the kids in schools throughout the Midlands".
