The real story behind school's expulsion, suspension numbers
OUR SAY: OUR story today on the behaviour of our high school students in state schools has a positive side to it.
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OUR SAY: OUR story today on the behaviour of our high school students in state schools has a positive side to it.
The numbers of students actually excluded are quite small, compared to the size of the school population.
Short and long suspensions are also are the lower end of the scale when viewed as a percentage of the school cohort.
Schools will always have a small percentage of students who cannot or will not abide by school rules.
Today's school rules are nowhere as restrictive as they were 30 or 40 years ago.
Students are given a fairly wide latitude by teachers.
But rules there must be - for the good of the students and, in many cases, to ensure their safety.
The bigger schools have more breaches of the rules. That is to be expected.
But the vast majority of students are hard working, respectful and a credit to their parents and the school community.
They feature heavily in The Chronicle pages throughout the year.
Our behaviour issues are no bigger and I suspect much smaller than those in the metropolitan regions.
Originally published as The real story behind school's expulsion, suspension numbers
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