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Suspensions and expulsions could set our most vulnerable kids on a path to school drop-out, drug use and crime

  • Written by: Linda J. Graham, Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Increasing numbers of students are being excluded from Australian schools. This is done both temporarily, through informal and formal suspensions, and permanently, through expelling them and cancelling their enrolments.

We know from publicly available data in New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland that these exclusions begin...

Read more: Suspensions and expulsions could set our most vulnerable kids on a path to school drop-out, drug use...

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