Excluding children from school ‘violates their moral rights’
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‘Some people believe that by punishing you serve a developmental good, that it teaches students that they should behave better. But it just doesn’t seem to be true.’
By Neil Shaw
The use of exclusions in English schools often violates the ‘moral rights’ of children, according to a new report.
And schools need extra support if they’re to implement ‘wide, systemic reform’ to ensure children are not ‘disproportionately harmed’ when removed from classrooms.
That’s according to a new study by Dr John Tillson, Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Education at Liverpool Hope University, and Laura Oxley, a PhD research student in the Department of Education at the University of York.
They argue school exclusions in the UK need to move from being a routine occurrence to a measure of absolute ‘last resort’.
Their paper, published in the journal Theory and Research in Education, suggests exclusions deprive children of access to adequate education while also potentially putting them in mental a...
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