Joel Hendon

Mind Boggling Statistics of England’s Students Suspension and Expulsions


Posted: Thursday, July 28, 2011

by Joel Hendon
http://hebronics.org/index.html

Perhaps I am naïve and simply unaware of the total number of elementary and high school students in the United Kingdom. But the number of those being suspended and/or permanently expulsed for attacking other students or teachers, is staggering. And perhaps the numbers here in the U.S. are comparable. But it is still hard to believe.

Although their figures, reportedly have been dropping now for six straight years, here are some of the figures to consider. They still have an average of 878 students removed from class each day for abuse or assault on other pupils or teachers. That may not sound too bad but multiply by 20 school days per month and see what you get. 17,560 per month.

There are also those with harsh enough violence to permanently expel 13 per day. Even that is 260 per month.

I’ve really never given this kind of thing any attention, but I suspect we may have far more than that nationwide. From grade one through high school, I only knew of one person who was ordered suspended for 10 days. He cursed a lady teacher.

But I can see some of the reason for all of this. According to one report, education groups are concerned that the level of violence suggests a continuing failure to recognize special educational needs among persistent offenders. For crying out loud. That level of violence suggest an almost total lack of discipline at home and at school. It is expected of children these days to form their very own ideas of behavior. And when it doesn’t turn out well, they wonder what went wrong.

Here is a paragraph taken from an article in the UK Guardian, July 28, 2011:

Department for Education figures show students were suspended on 166,900 occasions in 2010 for assault or abuse, with 2,460 expulsions. The data includes 1,210 suspensions and 20 permanent exclusions of children under five, where timely special educational needs (SEN) intervention is seen as crucial and usually effective.

Another interesting statistic from the same article again lists some high numbers but it does not explain what period of time is covered. But notice the ratio of boys versus girls in this, which is readily understood.

The disciplinary figures, including 3,020 suspensions and 40 expulsions of five-year-olds, show boys were three times more likely to be suspended than girls and four times more likely to be expelled. Physical attacks took place 80,400 times, threats or verbal abuse 82,600 and there were 3,900 records of specifically racist abuse.

It would be interesting to see the statistics for this same type of activity in U..S. schools, but so far, I’ve failed to find such a listing. 
Author Biography: Joel Hendon was born near Gadsden Alabama. He attended public schools in Cherokee County, Alabama and after serving a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attended Jacksonville State University, majoring in Business Administration. He became a Christian in 1948, and although he followed secular work as a career and retired from Allied Signal Aerospace, he is an avid student of the Holy Bible and related works as well as biblical history. He has an extensive website of conservative religious and political articles.http://hebronics.org/index.html

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