Sixty pupils are suspended or expelled from Greater Manchester schools every day.
New government figures show a total of 21,850 pupils in the region were temporarily excluded in a single academic year, while a further 500 were kicked out for good.
Exclusions were punishment for offences included threatening or attacking staff, bullying classmates and persistently disrupting lessons.
The figures emerged just weeks after the government announced new measures to crack down on bad behaviour in schools by giving teachers clearer powers to manhandle students who pose a risk to others.
The number of exclusions actually represents a fall compared to the previous year – when 23,550 children were suspended and 600 expelled.
But one Conservative backbencher said the number of children being kicked out of schools was still ‘shocking’.
Manchester – the biggest authority – imposed temporary bans on 4,710 primary and secondary students. The length of the exclusions ranged from just one day to several months, and the youngest pupils affected were just four years old.
Wigan schools issued 2,530 temporary exclusions, with 2,440 in Bolton and 2,170 in Oldham.
In Stockport, there were 1,980 exclusions, followed by Tameside with 1,950, Trafford with 1,880, Rochdale with 1,840, Bury with 1,410, and 980 in Salford.
In England some 363,280 children received temporary exclusions. The figures relate to the academic year 2008/9 and are the most recent available.
David Nuttall, Tory MP for Bury North, said the problem had become entrenched.
He welcomed moves to drive down the numbers, saying: “Many people will find these figures shocking.
“Even in an excellent education authority such as Bury it is clear that more can be done to improve discipline in schools.
“It is welcome news that the government is introducing tough new measures to improve school discipline.”
But children’s charities condemned the use of exclusions to tackle problem behaviour.
Martin Narey, from Barnardo’s, said: “It is madness for us to take poorly-behaved, often troubled children and remove them from the one arena in which they are required to behave reasonably.
“Ejecting them from school and leaving them to their own devices in chaotic homes and risky neighbourhoods is not going to improve anything, it’s a costly and ineffective dead end.”
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21850 pupils out of how many in the areas of Manchester in question?
Also: Are they uniques? Or would 1 yob being temp-excluded 5 times count as 5 of that total of 21850?
The schools have to be given back their authority to deal with those pupils who are bullying others and disrupting their education. Before the present idea of giving massive rights to those who misbehave, then schools could protect the well-behaved pupils. The articles of government for most schools used to state that the head could suspend temporarily or expel permanently for any reason he, or she, saw fit. The parents of the pupil then had a right of appeal to the school governors who could consider the welfare not just of the one misbehaving child but of all the children in the school. The present appeal panels consider only the one child in front of them. Reward the virtuous, punish those who misbehave, not the other way round.
have some of these children simply been excluded to help maintain or improve ofsted standards?is it true that some schools that take these children on benifit by getting better points for taking on these children,and if any headteacher was really worth his/her salt and the letters after their name,should they themselves be better at dealing with these children,their family and social needs as they themselves are not at school to teach anymore...
Would Martin Narey like to tell us, please, why the education of the many should be ruined by the antics of the "poorly-behaved, often troubled children" who bring classes to a standstill, undermine the school's authority, and frighten and threaten those children with whom they are placed? Clearly - and despite what he says - they're not demonstrating any understanding of the concept of "...an arena in which they are required to behave reasonably" - so what other proposals does he have? Cue silence...
(It goes without saying, of course, that the parents shouldn't be expected to be involved in any way with their difficult and disruptive children: that wouldn't be fair.... better to leave it with the school to sort out.)
I suggest that all the kids who bring drugs, knives and other offensive weapons into schools, threaten and intimidate others and prevent decent children from getting an eductaion should be put into classes with Martin Narey's children. Perhaps then he and all the other pinko-liberals who invariably live in the city's leafy southern suburbs and/or send their kids to selective/fee paying schools precisely to protect them from scum might understand the reality of modern Britian's (laughably named) education system. Schools are no longer geared to educate but to deal with the consequences of social breakdown. Perhaps if one of the many state-funded human rights quangos helped decent parents to prosecute the parents of kids whose behaviour destroys the education of good kids then something might change. Instead we have a legal system which ensures that the maladjusted are allowed to set the agenda.
The UK is sinking and sinking fast.
Get out while you still can.
"It is madness for us to take poorly-behaved, often troubled children and remove them from the one arena in which they are required to behave reasonably."
Perhaps Martin Narey, from Barnardo’s is unaware that they may be required to behave reasonably but refuse to behave reasonably.
And in the majority of cases the parents don't care as long as their children are out of their hair. Many are just as obstructive as their offspring.
That is based on years at the 'chalk-face'.
In trouble at school, were we, Stretfordian?
Discipline.Bring back the Cane and strap in Schools!
kick them out! learning is hard enough for other children even with the best teaching practices.
Why should one loud mouth, attention seeking, egotistital brat spoil the education of the whole class who are forced to endure their antics?
Send them home and back to the parents who probably either have to take time off work to sort them out, or suffer their antics at home. If they had to deal with it, they'd soon make sure they behaved.
Don't give them private teachers at home either at the tax payers expense. Leave em to wallow in their own spiral of self distruction. They'll end up on the dole and a burden to society eventually anyway.
Let the parents sort them out, they bred and brought them up that way!