tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3262321380420408314.post5441873916830008591..comments2009-05-18T09:33:50.592+01:00Comments on Charlton Average: Don't Care Didn't CareAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10501072242299871309noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3262321380420408314.post-48237747521351286342008-03-05T17:49:00.000+00:002008-03-05T17:49:00.000+00:00Schools now seem far to desperate not to expel a c...Schools now seem far to desperate not to expel a child. Both in terms of the costs involved in having 1 on 1 support and the disruption to the education of the other children in this class this is having a huge impact.<BR/><BR/>It's also demoralising teachers when they can see the damage that a child is having on the rest of their class but the head teacher will not sanction a removal of any kind.<BR/><BR/>A teacher taking the rest of the class and walking out of a classroom when a child "kicks off" seems to be surprisingly common. When I was in school that was unimaginable.<BR/><BR/>Monitoring is good.<BR/><BR/>However there being financial and political pressures on schools not to exclude no matter what the consequences to the other children is bad.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01446452735981678527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3262321380420408314.post-61193138466036739482008-03-05T17:06:00.000+00:002008-03-05T17:06:00.000+00:00Hi CAexcellent post (as always), I remember when I...Hi CA<BR/>excellent post (as always), I remember when I was working at a School in Islington, the lenghts to which the school would go to manipulate the exclusion figures, even so far as to be looking to exclude a pupil from group 'X' so that the % excluded from group 'Y' would not look so bad. <BR/><BR/>Mind you I would hate to see a return to the 80's when the whole exclusion thing was not monitored at all. While working in a Catholic School back then, rather than help difficult students, the management would provoke them into doing things which would get them expelled so they could wash their hands of a 'problem'. I have to say some catholics are not very christian in my experience.sibonetichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00850190606843087845noreply@blogger.com