This year has seen increasing criticism of behaviour policies and punishments used by schools – from putting children in isolation booths as punishment for breaking school rules, to excluding them for apparently minor indiscretions.
This month the TES and Schools Week reported that a multi-academy trust had been using a strategy called “flattening the grass”, in which students were publicly humiliated in assemblies and made to cry in order to establish the MAT’s expectations of students’ behaviour when it takes over a new school.
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