Tag: exclusions
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The ‘Adultification’ of Black Children in Schools
Black children are still three times as likely than white children to be excluded from school according to a recent report by the Commission for Young Lives. One of the main reasons for this is what the report calls the ‘adulfication’ of black children – where teachers (and other authority figures such as the police)…
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School league tables changing to include exam results of excluded pupils
School league tables are changing so that they include the exam results of schools’ excluded pupils. This social policy is designed to discourage schools from excluding potentially low-performing students with the intention of improving their exam results on paper. Along with data on formally excluded pupils schools will also have to included data on off-rolled…
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Nine criticisms of the theory that school exclusions are to blame for knife crime
Last week, senior police chiefs wrote to Theresa May arguing that there was a link between the increase in the number of formal school exclusions and ‘off-rolling’ (where heads informally get parents to withdraw their children, without them being formally recorded as ‘permanently excluded’) and an increase in knife crime. The theory is that those…
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The limitations of School Exclusion Statistics
The Department for Education publishes an annual report on exclusions, the latest edition published in August 2018 being ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England: 2016 to 2017. The 2018 report shows that the overall rate of permanent exclusions was 0.1 per cent of pupil enrolments in 2016/17. The number of exclusions was 7,720. The report…
