Almost 100,000 pupils as young as THREE kicked out of classrooms last year for violence
ALMOST 100,000 pupils — including some as young as three — were kicked out of classrooms last year for violence.
Shock official figures show 500 pupils a day are suspended or expelled for attacking a fellow student or teacher.
Department of Education figures for the school year ending July 2021 reveal 73,229 children were suspended and 878 expelled for assaulting another pupil.
Some 24,389 children were suspended for attacking a teacher and 568 were expelled.
Shockingly, 41 pupils in nursery class, which children typically start aged three, were suspended for attacking another child, and 57 sent home for assaulting a teacher.
In reception, which kids start aged four, 1,609 pupils were suspended for attacking a teacher.
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Seven were expelled.
Christopher McGovern, of the Campaign for Real Education, said: “Out-of-control children are ruining the education of other pupils and driving teachers out of the profession.”
The Department for Education said: “Permanent exclusion should only be used as a last resort.”