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EXCLUSION FROM SCHOOL
Author(s) -
York Roland,
Heron Judith M.,
Wolff Sula
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1972.tb01152.x
Subject(s) - psychology , juvenile delinquency , developmental psychology , special education , social exclusion , pediatrics , psychiatry , medicine , mathematics education , economics , economic growth
SUMMARY (1) Exclusion from school is numerically a small problem. Forty‐one children excluded from Edinburgh schools are described. (2) Exclusion from school occurred more often in secondary schools and much more often in boys. While commoner when opportunities for outdoor play are reduced in the winter months and commonest at mid‐term, it is by no means the result of an arbitrary decision by a teacher, but the culmination of a series of aggressive acts by a seriously disturbed child who is usually poorly endowed intellectually, backward educationally, socially deprived and with a family background characterised by disruption, marital disharmony, and sociopathy and delinquency on the part of the parents. A high proportion of excluded children were already attending special schools, (3) One to three years later only 4 out of 25 children still at school were living at home and attending ordinary schools; 19 were in psychiatric hospitals, residential schools or children's homes.