The killer sentence in the BBC's article is this:
The figures also showed that students from disadvantaged areas were more likely to be given exclusions.
The hidden message is, of course "Ooh! Those horrible Tories! They want head teachers to expel 'disadvantaged' children!."
How about flipping that on its head? How about pointing out that children from 'disadvantaged areas' are most likely to be victims of violence? And that head teachers don't have the guts to expel the perpetrators?
Friday, 31 October 2008
"Many violent pupils not expelled"
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Even old farts like me were children once. In my day there were children who behaved and children who didn't behave. Those who behaved sometimes misbehaved and those who usually did not behave sometimes did. That's what children are like.
The big difference between those who generally behaved and those who generally misbehaved was their parents. I know it's a complicated concept for the modern world, but in my day those taught by their parents to behave well generally did so and those not taught that lesson generally did not behave well.
Sometimes there is simply no getting away from the harsh truth. People with no standards teach no standards to their children who, in turn, teach no standards to their children. Group them all together on a sink estate and they can justify themselves by comparison with their neighbours.
In a couple of years I would probably be imprisoned for saying this, so I'll say it now and keep my fingers crossed: some of them are just scum.
Good point. Expelling pupils is probably seen by these people as damaging the children's human rights or some other rubbish.
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