Is excluding children from school the answer?

[AB Asks]

The case of a 13 year old girl who has been excluded from school for more than a year has again raised the issue of whether this is the correct approach to deal with disruptive children.
Instead of regular schooling, the teenager has been provided with just five hours of supervision a week in a community centre.
Many options have been suggested but no satisfactory solution has yet been proposed to help reintegrate her in the school system.
Do you think that simply excluding children from school is the most effective way of dealing with disruptive behavior?

[lector]

Back to the issue - all people have rights, but too often the victim is ignored in favour of the culprit .....

Accepting the judgement that this 13 year old is excesively disruptive ......

The 13 year old should not be re-integrtaed into the main school .... it is unreasonable on the rest of her classmates etc.

Why is the 13 year old behaving in this way? ..... get to the root of that = best way to identify a way forward.

each case is different - The AB Asks -

�Do you think that simply excluding children from school is the most effective way of dealing with disruptive hehaviour?�
..... too much of a generalisation!

[Le Chat]

I challenge that the �30k per term school fee is correct. My sons go to an exclusive private school and the fees are approx �2k per term for each boy. Although we are in Southport, I don't think the North/South divide leaves as �28k per term difference!!!

[toltol]

Joe_The_Lion

I can only hope that you and yours never suffer any kind of disability.

With an attitude like that I can only assume that everything in your LITTLE world is perfect.

[froggequene]

Given the size of the fee, it's probably a special independent school as opposed to an ordinary school.

You may also find, given the circumstances, the child has a Statement of Special Educational Needs & other mainstream schools have simply refused point blank to take her on, or the Authority's own special schools couldn't accommodate her.

Blaming the parents isn't the answer neither is dumping so called disruptive children in special schools & isolating them. There are plenty of mainstream schools out there who fail children by refusing to acknowledge their problems and acquire the necessary help at an early enough stage. In my experience, there are also plenty of schools who simply don't want to deal with disruptive children, label them & then do their damndest to shunt them out of the school & make them someone elses problem.

[horsestache1]

Le Chat, I also questioned the 30K per term fee's but am only saying what was said on the programme.

If this fee is correct then it could be better spent on more children, not just on one disruptive girl, that is the point of the answer.

My daughter also goes to private school, but this is not the subject we are discussing here.

[Le Chat]

I agree totally but �30k is just way too excessive!

[cherrybomb]

If the parent's of disruptive children go to work then they should be made to pay for private specialist education for their children. If the parents don't go out to work they should be made by law to teach their children the curriculum either at home or in a seperate part of the school.