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And so it should be. Whilst there needs to be provisions in place to protect teachers and mechanisms for them to exclude persistent offenders , there also needs to be safeguards.

I was kicked out of school at 14 for misbehaving. Not attacking teachers by any means but still being a little shit in all fairness, though there were plenty of mitigating circumstances which should have been spotted a mile off, i wont get into those for the sake of making this point. I wasn't expelled, just told I didn't need to return if I didn't want to.

The local authority failed me. Didn't put anything else in place, lied to the government / council and never reported me as not attending school so I just fell through the cracks, completely neglecting their duty of care. My family tried to get me into another school semi locally which was full, and that was it. I left school at 14. No standard grades and the local authority under the impression I was attending. What my school did was illegal.

Luckily I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps. Joined the military, came out and transitioned into financial services which I am now relatively successful in and have many years skin in the game.

Many others like me probably weren't as lucky. So whilst I agree, things like this are not on its nowhere near as simple as you are making out

Of course teachers aren't getting paid if they don't go into work... do you think anyone would be paid if they just didn't turn up to work? Of course not.