I work in a school in Special Measures. It's quite a demoralising place to be at present. We have a large number of pupils who have been given 1 or 2 day exclusions for threatening language towards staff and/or swearing at staff. We are not officially informed who these exact pupils are.
Today, we were discussing how right it would be to share the information with other pupils, for example, in assembly. We have a very large majority of pupils who do behave well and comply, and they should know that verbal abuse is getting punished, and that staff are not there to be abused in this way. In effect though, it looks as though they are seeing unruly pupils 'get away with it', and things are getting worse, not better.
What happens in other similar schools? Are miscreants held up as an example? I'm trying to see it from the side of a parent of an excluded child too.