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Bit of a thread here (13 parts no less!):
A while back I called education in the UK a second-rate right, which is probably a very emotive, quite unhelpful way of putting it.
But #schoolexclusion challenges are strange because they do everything they can to earn this title.
A while back I called education in the UK a second-rate right, which is probably a very emotive, quite unhelpful way of putting it.
But #schoolexclusion challenges are strange because they do everything they can to earn this title.
The feel very futile because each stage is flawed. The first stage is a hearing with the school's governors acting as arbitrators, theoretically independent. Obviously, this is flawed because they cannot be truly independent, even with all the goodwill in the world.
Governors say they feel under pressure to support the headteacher, and some say they have ruined a relationship with a headteacher by overturning an exclusion. Even the national governors' association says it's not right for them to have this kind of management-style oversight.
