1: Morality and young people:

a schoolmaster's view What follows in this short article must be clearly understood to be based largely upon impressions, both personal and of other experienced colleagues, and also upon keeping in touch with some of the relevant literature over the past decade. In general terms teachers have in the last four or five years become increasingly alarmed at the rising tide of disruptive behav-iour in schools rather than with fears concerning the sexual morality of their pupils. The disruption is manifest in behaviour which reveals thought-patterns, standards and values which are at variance with the norms of most (but not all) adults in School Communities. It is found in schools of all kinds, not just in the widely publicised large urban Comprehensive schools-although the problems may show up in their most acute form in such establishments