The three pupils, all of whom had their identities protected by the court, had spent a combined 154 school days in isolation during the 2023-24 academic year between them, according to the judge’s written ruling. <\/p>\n
Two of the youngsters had a record of violence against fellow pupils and staff, while the third had a persistent record of poor behaviour, which included “defiance” and truancy, the judgement added.<\/p>\n
Their parents did not challenge the principle of isolation or the school’s right to use it as a form of discipline, but had claimed the repeated extent to which it was used was unlawful. <\/p>\n
They said it breached government guidance on school discipline, as well as the Education and Inspections Act and the pupils’ right to private life under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act.<\/p>\n
It was claimed the youngsters had found isolation to be “unproductive, unpleasant, stressful and distressing”. <\/p>\n
But the judge said each sanction was in line with the school’s policy and that it was expected that repeated misconduct “be met with persistent, and indeed escalating, sanctioning”.<\/p>\n
She also said it was not “obvious” what the alternative punishment should have been. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three pupils, all of whom had their identities protected by the court, had spent a combined 154…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-302567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114939416115775508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}