As I sat and listened in my role as an expert witness to the case of a student who had clearly caused havoc in the school, I got the sense of everything the tome of papers and the statements held between the lines – that some of the staff had been really affected by the sometimes dangerous actions of this boy, that the parents were so full of blame for the school, and that other parents had clearly been alarmed and concerned for the safety of their own children.
And then I thought about the child who had been permanently excluded: how their extreme behaviours were an expression of their extreme discomfort and although they presented as full of bravado, that they were just a scared child desperately trying to protect themselves.
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