Schools need not expel under 7s
In the report, The Exclusion From School of Children Aged Four To Seven, Ofsted said most children “responded well to the school’s expectations”, but a few found this difficult.
In the BBC report on tv about this, the reporter said something about looking into why these situations occur. I’ve got an idea.
These children are too young to be in school.
There you go. Now can I have my consultancy fee please?
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Yeah i heard about that report too. The behaviour sited was pretty extreme! Im not convinced that wig would have ‘settled’ brilliantly, but i certainly wouldnt expect him to bite or swear or hit teachers! I do know a child a bit like this but school has been a magnifyer of the behavour rather than the cause.
I wouldn’t have expected Small to bite/swear/hit, and in fact he doesn’t know how to swear to the best of my knowledge, but he does do the others and he has done them to members of staff. Hm, not sure whether he’s ever actually bitten another adult, but he’s certainly done hitting, kicking, headbutting. And yet if you meet him in good circumstances, he is impeccably behaved and you would never imagine he could behave in the worst way.
I am reasonably sure he would be excluded if he were in mainstream school. Another reason why he is not.
A boy we know who’s M’s age has been regularly excluded since he was in reception. The school don’t seem to have any other strategy for dealing with him. 🙁
Hmmn, I seem to have grown a beard. How can I turn that off?
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Sorry for cluttering up your comments Jax 😉
first time you commented and it’s got Jonathan’s email address in the field, giving you his gravatar. I shall go and fix it 🙂
Better?
I understand now. And I even felt inspired to get a gravatar of my own.
Sadly, as a public sector consultant I think you’re only going to be successful in the long term if you tell them what they want to hear. But other than that, I think you’re onto a nice little earner there 🙂
I have one of those feelings that the mandatory starting school age will be 4, as this and all reports coming out all imply that 4 yr olds are in school, and not nursery. I do think it’s far too young. But I also felt the report was another sad indicator on the state of the school system.
Kieran can sit to a task for a few hours, and has always been able to–if he’s interested. I can’t imagine what would happen if he had been forced to do it 6 hours a day.
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