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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

My Lords, I endorse what my noble friend has said, particularly about the right of appeal to return to a school. I am very concerned about the high proportion of appeals which are allowed. The Minister can no doubt remember her school days, which are a good deal closer to her than mine are to me, but I have taught since then. When other pupils see a pupil who has rendered their lessons difficult if not impossible to follow because the staff cannot control him or her so their behaviour disrupts the lessons, and they see the same person come back in triumph some days later against the wishes of the teacher, the effect is very poor. It undermines entirely the authority of the teacher and restores the interruptions to the education of the other children. The situation is what it was before.