What is going on with our schools??

[Rory786]

When children and young people misbehave they are expelled or sent home.

Absences from school make them at risk to gang grooming and or has an impact on their education. It leads to a downward spiral.

What can be done, local authorities talk about holistic helping, support for children at school but schools are stretched and teachers shouldn't have to deal with severe or violent behaviour....similarly children with toxic stresses and are not helped.

It feels like such a mess...education is the way out for many but a British education is failing the majority of our children.

Pastoral care in schools has been massively reduced to a lack of government funding.

The safety net has been dismantled in many ways due to funding cuts, so more children fall by the wayside. It’s as simple as that!

I'm not sure I'd hold India up as a model society to aspire too. Girls being raped and murdered every other day by boys and men clearly out of control.

The government, academisation and OFSTED have created a culture where exam results and meeting a load of inflated targets to demonstrate progress is the goal of school based education. Meanwhile budgets per child have dwindled and support resources for SEN and other difficulties have really suffered in recent years. The curriculum has been slashed, particularly at the vocational and low ability end of the qualifications system leaving many pupils with an inappropriate and disengaging curriculum. There are too many schools battling for survival who can't afford poor results in their league table or formal permament exclusions.

Meanwhile out in the rest of society, it's been a tough decade for families in low paid employment/ in the benefits system. Many families are time poor in the battle to survive. Social pressures via the internet/ phones/ social media are more intrusive than ever and damaging to the mental health of behaviour. Councils slashed youth budgets very early in austerity. Less youth clubs, DoE etc which leaves young people with little low cost, constructive activities to do.

It's an awful cocktail of circumstances for so many young people.

Well there needs to be more special provision school for children with behaviour problems.

With the pressure for academic success many children already know they are failing and why fail ‘a little bit’? They aren’t academically suited to a high pressured environment and need something else

Something outside in the fresh air, being hands on or creative - not stuck behind desks in a shirt and tie.

They also need a decent diet and avoidance of alcohol and drugs

I’d vote for a boarding school of some type

Have you not heard about the fans rspes and assaults on children and women in India? Those rapists didn't magically become rapists when they turned into adults.

There probably always was bad behaviour but because of no Internet, we didn't know about it unless we witnessed it. Truants were probably not followed up on and instead of causing problems at school, they were probably causing bother for the police whose budgets weren't cut to the bone like today.

The situation is caused by lack of funding. If a child's behaviour is due to SEN, they are forced to stay in mainstream as there's no SEN places. Places at special schools are dependent on schools and parents fighting for a place. Uninterested parents aren't going to be badgering teachers for meetings and looking up the process on the Internet.

More funding is needed so that the needs of children with sen are met instead of them being excluded. If people think that it is only badly behaved teenagers with parents that don't care that are excluded, they are naive.