increase in the number of children suspended for five times or more — 867 of them excluded for 10 times or more — at a time that saw 4,370 fixed exclusions for
serious racist abuse and more than 207,000 serious offences, such as sexual abuse and violence.
Not exact matches
Because where a three - match suspension for a bad tackle makes at least some sense in a footballing context, there's no reason why
racist abuse should be treated as something similar but slightly more
serious.
In total, there were 4,000 cases of
racist abuse in England's schools which were
serious enough to warrant a fixed or permanent exclusion in the 2014 - 15 academic year.