Wow, I read that article and thought, "wow, more Amercan stupidities from brainless rule-makers," then realised that it's from the UK, it's almost as bad as failing students being refered to as having "defered success."
And do they really think stopping kids swearing will suddenly make them model pupils. I'm all for seperating schools out like they were before, with good, average pupils and bad students going to seperate schools. Sure, I see some logic in wanting to make all pupils equal by sending them to the same school, but bad kids are always going to mess about, but with a seperated system at least it wouldnt affect the better pupils grades and development.