ABSTRACT
Many students have been sent out of the classroom where they spend the next 10, 20 or 30 minutes either celebrating that they are no longer part of the lesson they hate or causing major upsets in all parts of the school. Quite a few students have spent a fair percentage of their school life in the corridor and for some this is where they prefer to be. It is difficult to see how a teacher can maintain their duty of care to a student who is no longer in their classroom, nor is it clear how exclusion from the class will improve the future behaviour of the targeted student. Simply sending the student out of the room will achieve only two things for certain: the student will no longer be disturbing the class and they won't be annoying the teacher. The chronic misbehaviour and disruptive influence of one or more individuals does not make for an acceptable learning environment.
