An Abolitionist Grassroots Coalition Movement in Education focused on racial justice, abolishing exclusions & free quality inclusive edu 4 all #NoMoreExclusions
Jul 18 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Today, the DfE published its latest data on school exclusions and suspensions for the 2022/23 academic year. Here is a short thread outlining the key points of note 🧵
1. First up, permanent exclusions (PEX). There have been 2,881 more PEXs issued in 2022/23 than in 2021/22. To break it down, that's:
- 443 more in primary
- 2,396 more in secondary
- 42 more in special schools
Mar 18, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Our statement on the appalling case of #ChildQ. We extend our full sympathy and solidarity to Child Q and her family at what must be a traumatising, exhausting and distressing time.
We especially thank Child Q for her courage in coming forward with her story, which must have been unimaginably difficult. We condemn in the strongest possible terms not just the individual actions of police officers involved, but the institutional frameworks built to hide them..
Jun 7, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
“The Windrush generation were blatantly estranged from their cultural & social contexts, explicitly judged & found wanting against white western cultural norms.” 🧵 yorkshirebylines.co.uk/institutionall…
“Now, children of black Caribbean heritage are more subtly segregated through exclusions within ‘zero tolerance’ schools. And they are presented with a curriculum that divorces them from their cultural heritage, lambasts them for their ‘cultural’ exuberance,”
May 20, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
No More Exclusions Means:
No More Occupation
No More Dispossessing
No More Colonizing
No More Bombing
No More Apartheid
No More False Equivalence
No More Imperialism
#FreePalestine#GazaUnderAttack#SaveSheikhJarrah
No More Air Strikes
No More Drones
More Cease Fire
No More Attempts to Rewrite History
No More Exploitation
No More Genocide
No More Media Lies
WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING IT ANYMORE
Mar 25, 2021 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
🚨 🚨🚨NEW: School Exclusions during the Pandemic “Exclusions are detrimental to children’s education, wellbeing and socioemotional development, and it is cause for concern that exclusions are being used at all, let alone amidst a global pandemic.” nomoreexclusions.com/wp-content/upl…
“Our research found that exclusions occurred extensively prior to lockdown, and continued to occur as soon as pupils returned to school in September 2020.”