"Zero tolerance" policy adopted against school violence

Teachers will now be obliged to inform the police about all crimes which take place in schools, and schools themselves will be equipped with TV cameras, pupils will have to wear uniforms and there will be ban on mobile phones on school terrain. Constantly aggressive pupils will face borstals or social work. Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński backed Giertych's program, but censured him on his controversial statements on abortion and "homosexual propaganda" made at a EU meeting in Heidelberg. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4; Fakt, p. 4) E.B.