Instead of preparing for their GCSE exams, six year 11 students at Blatchington Mill School in Hove, East Sussex, are coming to terms with suspensions that amount to expulsions, following anti-war protests on 7 March.
Up to 300 of the school's 1,700 pupils had tried to march into town to demonstrate against war on Iraq. All were punished with detention but six were handed fixed-term exclusions, which meant they would only be allowed back to school to take their final exams.
Headmaster Neil Hunter dubbed the six "persistent troublemakers who had all been warned about their attitude and behaviour", and appeals to a committee of school governors were rejected.
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