– Advertisement –Now they are promising to arrest children by weaponising ‘leave the classroom’ powers for Teachers use. By targeting disruptive children, ACT want to create new powers allowing Teachers to forcibly remove disruptive powers with any resisting student excluded and handed over to the Cops. We have a low punishment rate for children at schools because we know punishment doesn’t work on children, it just screws them up worse. ACT will:Give teachers the power to remove disruptive students: Teachers will have a clear legal power to direct seriously or persistently disruptive students to leave the classroom and go to a staffed, supervised space. Teachers will have a clear legal power to direct seriously or persistently disruptive students to leave the classroom and go to a staffed, supervised space.