This is my niece. I feel it is ridiculous. She works in a garage at weekends, and doesn't need a time out card there! She just uses it to manipulate situations, if she gets told off, she just walks out of the classroom.
She as already lost a year, and that was partly the number of times she left the room to avoid being told off for not working, talking, etc. She has had to change courses and repeat the first year of sixth form.
She has A levels next year, and is really going to have to knuckle down, because her marks are not good at the moment.
Her parents want the school to put on more booster classes and revision sessions, etc, as they are worried, but my feeling is, just take her time out card away, and make her stay in the lessons that are already on her timetable, and behave in a way to learn.
I work in the same school, so get asked for the insider info, such as is such and such a teacher often absent, etc. I tend not to answer, or answer vaguely, but to me it is very clear why she isn't achieving, she is flashing her time out card around several times a week, and going off on a little jolly instead of staying in the lesson.
She has it to avoid getting into arguments with staff, but AIBU to think that at 18, she should be using a bit more self control to avoid arguments?