Whilst I think the school have been a bit OTT. The day of an exam is possibly not the best time to enforce trivial rule.
A warning to him to make sure he is in proper dress for the rest of his exams would have sufficed IMO.
but when you get "psycologists" from Grahams post fawning over the poor little children.
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Psychologically, such punishments can be devastating. They offer little in the way of instructive value, and exacerbate students' sense of alienation and distrust of authority. James Comer and Alain Poussaint, two of the nation's leading child psychologists, warn that overly harsh punishment "either destroys a child's spirit, has no effect at all, worsens the problem, or makes it more difficult for you to work with the child in school -- he or she no longer trusts you."
For those teenagers already disengaging from school, suspensions are particularly counterproductive. During a developmental period when their most urgent need is to connect and form trusting relationships, these sanctions isolate them from the only community they may know. Susan Black, education research consultant, has noted that "these kids often interpret suspension as a one-way ticket out of school -- a message of rejection that alienates them from ever returning to school." The ensuing chain reaction is depressingly predictable: school failure, dropping out, arrest and incarceration.
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These kids have to be taught responsibility, thery have to know what is acceptable and what isn't, they have to know that their actions will have an effect on their futures and we should stop making excuses for them.
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And if it is deemed acceptable, surely that would lead to disobedience, lawlessness and eventually anarchy?
Have you been reading the Daily Mail?? This is the sort of remark that they tend to come out with.
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The ensuing chain reaction is depressingly predictable: school failure, dropping out, arrest and incarceration
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It's not just the Daily Mail readers that can jump to conclusions eh Graham?