United Kingdom: Pupils as young as FOUR sent home from school for attacking and threatening teachers

Pupils as young as FOUR sent home from school for attacking and threatening teachers

MORE than 50 of the nation’s youngest schoolchildren are being sent home every day for attacking or threatening teachers. The behaviour of pupils aged four to seven is now the worst on record. There were 10,218 children from Reception, Year 1 or Year 2 given their marching orders during the 190 school days of 2018-19, figures show. This included 9,055 suspensions and 1,163 fixed-term exclusions. There were even 115 permanent expulsions. Just six years earlier, the figure for Key Stage One children — aged four to seven — was less than half at 4,870. The stats — revealed by the ...

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12653236/pupils-four-years-old-attacking-teacher/