Sunday, May 2, 2021

The future for children expelled from school

Two thirds of prisoners in English jails were expelled from school.

According to an 1997 study 77 per cent of prisoners  never sat a public examination, 80 per cent left school before the age of 16, 71 per cent were users of hard drugs, 81 per cent never married and 72 per cent had fathered children.

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