Lowering behavioural standards leads to worse outcomes for students, higher absence, and increased staff turnover. As night follows day.

Gentle reminder: if a school has a suspension or exclusion rate higher than the national/area average, it's ridiculous to get self-righteous about it because: 1. Some schools deal with larger, more challenging cohorts than others, and consequences are more frequently required 2. Lot of schools still don't suspend when they probably *should*. 3. Unless you can point to a suspension/ exclusion where the law and the school policy wasn't followed, then you should probably park your moral outrage and let people leaders do their job and manage school culture. Because these are perfectly legitimate tools to create safe environments.