You contemplate the stocks or defenestration, but there’s not much you can really do, except pray for their absence. We’re not talking lovable rogues here, rather deeply damaged children who need serious attention.
Being on a GCSE grade less than C. Buggering up league tables. Being a bit disenfranchised – challenging, difficult, and “troubled children” seem to have become an alibi for some worrying stuff.
They’ve prompted two worrying recent developments.
First, the disappearing of many pupils – 10,000 last year. That’s the number of pupils who “left” England’s mainstream state secondary schools in the run-up to their GCSE courses in 2015, according to an analysis of official data by The Guardian and the Education Datalab think-tank.
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