young people falling out of education. But CADET, the Centre for Adolescent Development, Education and Training, is no CedarBridge.

It is a special unit at Warwick Camp with a military overlay designed to help troublesome teenagers. They will get their daily lessons from seven hand-picked teachers and spend time on the Warwick Camp parade ground in the care of Bermuda Regiment staff. It is hoped that these students who have caused problems in their regular school will respond to military discipline and military role models and become better behaved. The object is to remove them from their regular schools, have them spend some 12 weeks at CADET and then return to regular school. For some of them Cadet will be a last chance to get on with their education.

This programme of some four classrooms with seven students each is the Ministry of Education's response to students who have been disrupting schools.

It is boot camp with classes thrown in. Since the classes will be only some seven students, it means that Government is spending a good deal on individual attention to ensure the students' success. We think CADET has a real chance to prove its worth and to succeed.

Cadet would probably not have come about without the creation of CedarBridge.

Before CedarBridge the problems were scattered about the secondary-school system and individuals tended to escape identification. When the majority of the public secondary students wound up at the new CedarBridge the problems became very evident because they were together. It was difficult to teach those who wanted to study as long as classes were being disrupted by a few unruly students. Giving those students special attention and discipline at the CADET programme was the answer to the problem. Whether it is the solution is yet to be determined.

When CedarBridge was being planned, Bermuda was told that part of its function was to rescue young people who were in danger of "falling through the cracks''. That turned out to be more difficult than expected and soon there were threats of expulsion from CedarBridge so that the teaching programmne would not be disrupted. There was really nowhere else for problem students to go except to jail so CADET was created for disruptive students from all schools.

CedarBridge inherited the problems from other schools and it may be that with time, its carefully structured programme and its counselling facilities will prove to be up to preventing anyone from falling through any cracks. Right now, CedarBridge is in its first year and rescue programmes take time to become effective. Yet it is clear that the new school is settling down very well and getting on with teaching. In the meantime, CADET is to deal with the problems.

We hope when CedarBridge is fully functional, and that will take time, there will be no need for CADET simply because being sent there is likely to stigmatise young people and leave them with a reputation for being "difficult''. Attendance at CADET is not likely to be a good recommendation on someone's record. Minister of Education Jerome Dill has said. "This represents the best chance that a number of young people are going to have in their school existence.''