Six students expelled every week??

The new figures show that six students are being expelled from the Victorian state schools in Australia every week. Half of the figures are blamed for acts of significant violence while many more for threatening behaviour. The Australian Principal Federation state president mentioned that most of the principal are giving excuses concerning welfare issues. He also said that the communities are getting harder to handle nowadays.

Victorian Principals Association president Gabrielle Leigh suggest that every primary school should have its own welfare officer and nurse. Moreover, the principals' groups were disappointed that extra resources were not provided in the last state budget.

Last year, $6.3 million has been allocated by the government in order to run different programs for troubled students. They said that welfare officers and student support service officers are available to help schools. Of the 103 expulsion, 55 involved significant violence against a person or caused significant damage. Eighteen cases involved drugs and others related to behaviour that caused defames, degrades or humiliates another.