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Sadly Kath, it is unlikely to be a holiday for those very children who are so excluded. It is, first and foremost, a punishment for their parents, but they could be more usefully punished by having them in as part of the class. Such children that are seen to be the problem are, more likely as not, from a household that can hardly wait for them to be dumped into the education system. For them then to be sent home again CANNOT help the situation.
I think we need to allow, nay encourage, children to be children and to experience a childhood. I am sure Nordic countries build-up families and communities before thrusting children into 'dole-fodder' education.
BTW
Once, during a lecture within my short experience at a primary-school-teacher training 'university'. We were shown the fruits of a recent visit by the lecturer to a primary school class, [the go-getting lecturer who could only have spent a year or two actually teaching before catching the lecturer bug]. There were photographs of perfectly ordinary inner-city kids...except one. He was "clearly troubled" as the whiz-kid lecturer acknowledged, but he and his plight was not to detain us.
I learned from a friend and fellow student that the school in question was local to her and the child lived across the street from her. Among other things this boy was known to have ready access to porn videos. All this known to the neighbours through their children, his class mates.
I could be angry that I did not do 'something', but here is the rub.
Is it not easier to get angry than to do 'something'?
The newspaper columnist will be angry.
The teachers will be angry.
The government will be angry.
The parents will be angry.
Where, oh where, do these bloody toddlers get the idea that getting angry solves anything?
