Over 80,000 suspensions for violence at school
Tens of thousands of school pupils were suspended from English schools last year for attacking their teachers or classmates, according to shocking new statistics.
Almost 17,000 of these suspensions involved primary school pupils aged 11 and under, and over 63,000 of them involved children in secondary schools.
The Department for Education’s statistics also revealed that there were 1,240 cases of children aged four and under being suspended for a variety of reasons during 2008/09.
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