By Gavin Mackintosh-
Over 200 children are out of education in Norfolk because of high rate exclusions, the eye of media.com have heard.
Children from Norfolk are one of the most difficult in the country, and drive teachers mad, a sources told the eye of media.com Council figures reveal that 290 pupils were expelled between 2015 and 2016, with that number roughly the same for 2017. Students are generally very rowdy, rude, aggressive, and sometimes violent to teachers.
The eye of media.com reported some months back how a culture of bullying was bad in some parts of Norfolk, with ‘happy slapping’ highlighted as a regular feature among some school children. North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb said the news was “shameful”.
Some schools claim that excluded children are being tutored online, but demands by the eye of media.com to see some evidence of this has yielding no results. Numerous teenagers hang around the streets of Norfolk during school hours aimlessly, many of them indulging in theft and drug habits.
A report to Norfolk County Council’s children’s services committee said there were concerns exclusion were not being used as a “last resort” and instead as a “mechanism for fairly low level behavioural issues”. What constitutes low level behavioral issues were not elaborated, but children in Norfolk, and many public schools in Uk suffer from a chronic level of behavioral issues.
Des Reynolds, chief executive of not-for-profit charity Engage Trust, who is in charge of finding places for excluded pupils at its 10 short stay schools in Norfolk, said: “Currently, the system for providing places for challenging and vulnerable children is under an enormous amount of pressure and there is a shortage of places.”If children and young people are not in school, that places them in a detrimental position. It’s very important that the authorities work together to find a solution.”
SCHOOL STANDARDS
The search for a solution has been ongoing for years, with very little in the way of quality ideas and to address the growing problem of bad behavior in schools. The standard of primary and secondary education in most schools in Norfolk is below the average, and weaker than most boroughs with weak academic standard. Society cannot have so many children excluded from schools, but schools should not have to tolerate unruly behavior from insolent children with no foresight of the future.
The government and various counties in the UK must find a way to substitute the learning in classrooms for excluded students by creating an alternative environment of learning that is compulsory for them. First, the circumstances of the several exclusions in Norfolk must be closely examined to ensure that school authorities have not jumped the gun in excluding students where a suspension would have been fitting. There is a high problem of indiscipline in British schools that accounts for a large percentage of the high level of crime in the UK.
Children booted out of school usually find refuge with other excluded children , and become susceptible to a wide range of influences , including the urge to identify with their criminal tendencies and deviant behavior. They redefine the acceptable standards of respect and achievements, gaging them on the unsavory standards of fools. Lack of motivation and seriousness is rife in secondary schools, a woeful failing that is tantamount to poor training and discipline in their infant years at primary schools all over the UK. Research shows that many drop outs replace the expected success at school with success on the streets, success interpreted through the tentacles of stupidity , often leading to jail or the graveyard.
Norfolk is home to many teenage fools who disrupt those serious students who want to achieve a good education. If many teenagers continue to drop out of schools, they will continue to constitute a threat to society if they are not properly contained and compelled to achieve an education. Every child excluded from school should be monitored by the county from which they have been expelled to ensure they are not allowed to disappear into the dark world of teenage delinquency.
Children who are problematic at school, are mainly so because they have no academic passion and have not come along well academically. Society must shoulder alot of the responsibility in this respect. Some children are not academic, but careful analysis shows that a lot depends on the teaching styles and the academic environment of children. If children are taught in a creative and practical way right from early primary school, they would be more motivated academically in secondary schools.
The British government has raised the level of primary SATS exams, with the expectation that children are trained adequately in preparation for those exams and the 11 plus exams for grammar schools. However, several primary schools have complained that the standards of the SATS exams are too high, highlighting a gap between the exams and the readiness of students for those exams. Some primary schools have done reasonably well in the SAT exams, but those that struggle say the tests are too hard for them. The eye of media.com decided to examine those exams in conjunction with some University lecturers, and will publish our finding when the investigation is concluded.