The number of pupils suspended from school has reached a record high as experts warn that bad behaviour has increased as a result of lockdown school closures. The Telegraph has more.
Data from the Department for Education (DfE) found that there were 263,904 suspensions in the spring term during the 2022-23 academic year, an increase from 201,090 during the period the year before.
In the same term, there were 3,039 permanent exclusions, an increase from 2,179.
Academics warned that the “deeply concerning” increase was a result of pupils losing the habit of going to school during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A spokesman for the DfE said: “The most common reason for suspensions and permanent exclusions was persistent disruptive behaviour. This is in line with previous terms and years where this reason was the most commonly recorded.
“Suspensions are typically higher in autumn term than in spring and summer, so spring 2022-23 is a change from that trend and the highest recorded number of termly suspensions.”
The figures showed a 31% increase in suspensions compared to the previous year, the highest outside of Covid restrictions.
The rise was particularly high among secondary children, with cases increasing from 174,522 to 232,635 – a 33% jump and the equivalent of one in 16 pupils.
Prof. Alan Smithers, Director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at the University of Buckingham, said: “The huge increases in suspensions and exclusions from school for disruptive behaviour is deeply concerning.
“It seems that far too many pupils lost the habit of regularly attending school during the pandemic and on being forced to return are taking it out on the teachers.
“Being thrown out of school not only harms the learning and future prospects of the pupils themselves, but also the behaviour leading to these drastic steps lowers the quality of education of other pupils.
“Disruptive pupil behaviour is the major reason given by teachers for quitting the profession. The Government must urgently address the decline in pupil behaviour.”
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BEV = UXB.
Much of the technology being touted to deliver Net-Zero has been petulantly demanded by politicians to deliver their mad eco policies. Much of this technology has not been properly and fully tested on a trial basis but these eco politicians cannot wait for such niceties as market testing and feasibility studies they have a mad net-zero dream (nightmare?) and like a petulant screaming child are stamping their feet and screaming that this technology must deliver their agenda or else.
Given time and resources I expect technology can, in the future, deliver new transport, heating and energy solutions for society. However, to demand that it delivers it now to the time scale dictated by mad eco-politicians means we will get the ‘or else and it will not be pretty or pleasant.
It’s worse than that- the mad politicians know all about the risks, same as we do, but they go ahead anyway.
There will be a reckoning one day, and millibands head will finish on a spike.
Look up all our Energy ministers degree qualifications, and you will find most will have studied the Arts and Humanities, with many degrees in PPE or some sort of History.
Says it all, really.
politicians and civil servants are maters of circling their wagons. They will have us on spikes before themselves. . That aside what I cannot understand is knowing that these explosions/ fires are happening with an increasing regularity is it not a real hazard allowing electric vehicles on car ferries and the Channel Tunnel carriers?
Yes extremely dangerous
“…this technology has not been properly and fully tested..”
Dang. This rings a bell. Not Net Zero, something else.
Now, what could it be…?
Because it’s an electric car.
A shame actually.
Spratton has one of the best Guy Fawkes displays in the country.
Why couldn’t they have waited?
Lesson of the day for these people: Virtue-signalling can be dangerous.
Lets add in Hydrogen fuel.
Should be good for bonfire night
That garage looks like it’s part of the house. Good job the car wasn’t inside at the time.
Sounds like Korea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNo9PJP9Qa8
In the “More on this story” below the BBC article is a link to “Electric cars: Lords urge action on ‘misinformation’ in press” in which:
Yeah, how many 2 year old prestige brand petrol cars explode?
It could have been worse; it could have been parked in the garage.
But I was told that electric cars were ‘safe’ and ‘effective’ just like the ‘miracle’ vaccines.
It’s terrible!
Think of the Carbon footprint if the house had burnt down! 🙂
You building insurance will go up if you own an electric car. EVs are the Betamax of the automotive industry. Avoid.
But Betamax was actually superior technology that wasn’t marketed as well as VHS The inverse is true of EV’s.
Commercial property insurers are already refusing to accept liability for fires caused by the charging of electric vehicles. I think they will soon apply this to domestic premises too.
Who needs Guy Fawkes fireworks now we have electric cars? Burning at 2,000 degrees and belching poisonous gases – much better than an old-fashioned bonfire.
Thermal runaway. Violent, very toxic gases, explosions, extremely high temperatures, extremely difficult to extinguish, can reignite when and where you least expect it.
Don’t kill your family and neighbours, stop virtue signalling and vote Reform.