FG criticises department over school expulsions [thepost.ie]
- Published: 22 November 2009
More than a quarter of students who are expelled from school are put back into the same classroom after appeal to the Department of Education. New figures also show that more than half of students suspended from school are reinstated following appeal.
Fine Gael claims that the figures show that the department is undermining the rights of schools by overturning decisions on unruly behaviour. Fine Gael spokesman Brian Hayes said the department should remove itself from the appeals process and that parents should instead go to the courts. ‘‘This is sending out a very bad message to schools,” Hayes said. ‘‘It’s demolishing the right of the schools to come to a decision about a child that they know.
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