Queensland Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek accused some students of "playing the system to suit" and attracting multiple suspensions because they knew that teachers and principals were limited in what they could do to deter their violent, abusive and disruptive behaviour. Source: The Courier-Mail
UNRULY schoolchildren are abusing the system as teachers struggle to crack down on bad behaviour, Queensland's Education Minister says. John-Paul Langbroek said he was appalled at the latest figures which showed there were 64,324 suspensions and exclusions from the state's schools last year.
Mr Langbroek accused some students of "playing the system to suit" and attracting multiple suspensions because they knew that teachers and principals were limited in what they could do to deter their violent, abusive and disruptive behaviour.
"I know that's happening at schools. I want to stop it," he said.
Mr Langbroek said teachers were only allowed to hand out maximum lunchtime detentions of 20 minutes or after-school detentions of 30 minutes.
And while principals have the power to exclude students, the process takes up to 25 days. Even then, parents are able to lodge a final appeal with the director-general.
Mr Langbroek said he believed principals and teachers were fighting with one hand tied behind their backs.
"Principals and teachers can be confident that we are not just going to tinker at the edges," he said of his discipline reform plan.
"We want perpetrators to know that we're serious about making sure that principals have got autonomy to run their schools, and students who get in the way . . . they can't use the system."
New figures show there were nearly 400 more suspensions, exclusions and mature-age student enrolment cancellations in state schools in 2012 compared with 63,936 in 2011. Exclusions increased about 30 per cent to 1331, up from 1030 in 2011.
Queensland Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek John-Paul Langbroek said he was appalled at the latest figures which showed there were 64,324 suspensions and exclusions from the state's schools last year.
The majority of suspensions and exclusions, about 34,911, were handed out for physical or verbal and non-verbal misconduct.
Drug, cigarette and alcohol-related misconduct accounted for about 3200 disciplinary absences.
Five students were deemed to be so bad they were excluded from all state schools in Queensland.
The figures come as the Newman Government puts the finishing touches on its plan to overhaul state school discipline, handing principals more power to crack down on misbehaviour.
But the Queensland Teachers' Union has called for the Government to focus instead on providing support to teachers and to reoffending students to help them change their ways.
QTU president Kevin Bates said while some students were attracting multiple suspensions and knew how to work the system, he believed they needed greater support to curb that behaviour.
"As a teacher, there are those students that you know are probably out there looking for reasons to be sent away from school," he said.
"They're the ones you tend to work that much harder to keep in the school context because that's where they are going to get the support they need."
He called for the Government to increase the number of positive learning centres for students around the state.
The way students are disciplined has continued to evolve, with corporal punishment now only adopted in some private schools.
But Australian Primary Principals Association president Norm Hart said he believed there was less tolerance of misbehaviour in schools now than there used to be.
"I think students are subject to more discipline than they used to be," he said.
Mr Hart said principals generally preferred to work with the families of misbehaving students to teach them a better way of dealing with their problems.
"But in the end we need to make sure that schools are safe places for everybody and that includes other students," he said. "Sometimes kids have to be either suspended or excluded but that is only used as a last resort.
"If these figures are increasing, then perhaps there's a message there about the way Australian society is changing and the way that children are acting out their emotional issues."
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