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School exclusions data - Our @Metienne12 comments: “There is nothing in these figures that will surprise anyone with even a passing familiarity with the culture and practice of school discipline...” bit.ly/31fMMoU
School exclusions data - Our @Metienne12 comments: “There is nothing in these figures that will surprise anyone with even a passing familiarity with the culture and practice of school discipline...” bit.ly/31fMMoU
“...which, in more & more schools seeks to mimic the prison & criminal justice systems in which Black and other minoritised groups are over-represented.
This is an issue of life & death - the cases of Jaden Moodie and Tashaun Aird provide just two of many illustrations of that.”
This is an issue of life & death - the cases of Jaden Moodie and Tashaun Aird provide just two of many illustrations of that.”
“Disproportionate rates of exclusion of Black, Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and/or SEND pupils is so well-established that statutory guidance requires school leaders to take specific account of it in order to reduce them.”
“What pupils and their families need is not more data or the lip-service that typically follows a report like this. What they need is for Head Teachers, Governors, Independent Panels, tribunals and regulators to genuinely reckon with the institutional discrimination...”
“that pervades exclusion decisions, so that there are meaningful consequences for discriminatory decisions.
In too many cases, the interests of one pupil are treated as dispensible for the "greater good" of their peers - despite everything we know...”
In too many cases, the interests of one pupil are treated as dispensible for the "greater good" of their peers - despite everything we know...”
“about the potentially disastrous consequences not only for excluded pupils but also society at large, in the longer term. That has got to change. Now" says Michael Etienne @Metienne12
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