Teachers warn zero tolerance discipline in schools is feeding mental health crisis
The growing popularity of “zero tolerance” policies towards bad behaviour in schools is “feeding a mental health crisis” among pupils, teachers have complained. Headteachers are taking an “increasingly punitive” approach to discipline including the use of detention, isolation and exclusion for students who break rules, delegates at the National Union of Teachers’ (NUT) annual conference were told.
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