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| Subject: OZschwitz slave pen: Big increase in student expulsions, suspensions Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:07 am | |
| Students in NSW are being suspended or expelled from public schools at record rates, with the latest figures revealing a 35 per cent rise in the number of times students have been sent home for misbehaving over the past five years.
The most recent Department of Education figures show there were 18,186 long suspensions in 2012, 1300 more than in 2011 and 4780 more than in 2007. In 2012, there were 12,922 students sent home for more than four days.
Long suspensions are for at least four days but in 2012 the average length of exclusion from school was 11.8 days. Almost half of all long suspensions are for persistent misbehaviour while 39 per cent are for physical violence.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/big-increase-in-student-expulsions-suspensions-20140714-zt6n4.html |
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