Expelled, swapped and hidden away: More and more Sheffield children are being excluded from school

Expelled, swapped and hidden away: More and more Sheffield children are being excluded from school

There’s more than one way, if a school is so inclined, to get rid of a difficult child. You could encourage the parents to withdraw them of their own accord, find another school willing to take them off your hands — often in exchange for taking one of their own problematic students — or simply send them to an isolated room away from the majority of their classmates. These measures are all ways to get round the final option of exclusion, which is…