Why are over 80% of school suspensions boys?

[ZenAgainWoo]

Watched a tv show not long ago looking at children who have been suspended from school, and I think it stated that near 85% of school suspensions are boys. Why is this? Am I missing something glaringly obvious?

Did the doc not explain?

Oh come on

Boys misbehave more??

Worrying. Lack of role models. Absent fathers. School system that 'suits' girls more.

School settings tend to be more punitive towards violent behaviour. Girls call each other names, boys lamp each other.

Partly because a lot of school suspensions are violence related.
males commit around 85% of violent crimes….

Why are 97% or violent crimes committed by men 🤷‍♀️guess we'll never know

Black pupils are excluded at a higher rate

Spot on.

Considering the male prison population is massively more than the female prison population, it doesn't surprise me that more boys are suspended than girls. Im not saying that boys who get suspended will end up in prison btw. I have a son who was rightly suspended by his school in year 11 and he's a responsible, law-abiding adult.

I think that many boys aren't ready for school at 4. I have no clue how many 4/5 year olds get suspended but I'd hazard a guess that if we started sit down learning at 6 like on continental Europe then we'd see fewer boys getting into trouble (suspended) because they'd be more ready developmentally.

www.statista.com/statistics/283475/england-and-wales-prison-population-by-gender/

The school system is more suited to girls.

ADHD presents differently in boys.

Boys are physical. Girls verbal.

I can see why tbh...

www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/24/exclusion-rates-black-caribbean-pupils-england

Continual dismissal of bad behaviour as 'boys will be boys' then no choice but exclusion when the behaviour goes too far.

What a rubbish programme if it didn't explore this and the reasons why

Unhappy/struggling boys have more of a tendency to act out in a way that disrupts the learning of others. Not all of them and I've known of a few girls also suspended and in PRUs but there is a pattern that skews towards boys.

Because a lot of parents have different expectations of boys - 'boys will be boys' and all that. I knew several families in school with well behaved girls and badly behaved boys.

Absent or inactive fathers
'Boys will be boys' culture
Football

That's a start...

I have worked with excluded pupils in post 16 and a lot don’t have support. It takes a lot to prop them up to do well/ catch up.

No I don't believe the program did explore this. It just focused mainly on the impact of the suspension and the Childrens behaviour.

Seeing the comments about violent crime being committed mainly by men and prisons having a much higher percentage of men, I'm intrigued as to why this is. I always see on these boards people claiming men and women are wired the same, and often that they're just raised differently etc. I find it hard to believe that these suspensions and crimes and prison sentences are due to boys/men being raised differently than girls/women?

In a word- violence.

Totally agree.

Because boys are arseholes.
I’m a mum of girls and a boy.
boy is currently kicking a football against the indoor wall of our small apartment after being in the sea forb6 hours straight and then the pool till bed time. I have no actual facts as to why boys are more likely to be suspended but in my house it’s obvious.

DD is now at the reaping the whirlwind stage of school. The boys whose poor, bullying, violent behaviour was minimised, dismissed, ignored and generally treated as not important is now, heading into teens, worse. The boys who were shoving and kicking are now bigger and sometimes armed. The one incident with a blade in DD's class was a boy.

We are failing all these children. The ones who get excluded when they should have been managed years before, and the ones dealing with this behaviour.