The citizenship ceremonies, which are just one of the many things I have suggested, are a way of marking that passage of being a student of citizenship to a citizen in practice.What this is saying is that students are not teenagers aren't citizens at all while they're in full-time education, and therefore don't count and aren't expected to display adult behaviour until after they leave school. Calling someone a second-class citizen, or, worse, no citizen at all, is a sure way of arousing rebelliousness and stirring up trouble. Such a careless choice of words can only serve to further alienate Britain's teenagers and consequently result in more anti-social behaviour, not less.
We seem to have gone from one extreme, where every word that any politician said was spin-doctored to death, to another, where politicians don't think at all before they open their mouths.
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