YES
Gerry German, director, Communities Empowerment Network
We've been calling for this since 1986. Quite simply, exclusions do not work.
Instead of punishing children, schools should be providing resources for more individual learning that respects all children and looks at their potential. Head teachers, governors and parents all need to come together to look at how the existing school resources can be used to achieve this. If they haven't got the resources they should work together to find ways of getting them.
NO
Alison Ryan, education policy adviser, Association of Teachers and Lecturers
Schools do not exclude pupils lightly; usually it is a sad end to a process of strategic interventions aimed to include and engage every pupil.
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