The name is absent

The remedial department doesn’t seem to work
like that at all - it’s not used for trouble-

Quite a few of the staff say that they play
down that they have any trouble at School
A - they play it down - as not part of a
happy, jolly school - they never mention
it to the public at all - it's played down
- whereas other schools will say - Yes, we

have troubles, fights etc - - but if anything

like that happen^ at School A they don’t

With X (names child) - I was sitting in the

talking about how he’d kicked another teacher

and one teacher thought he should have been

suspended and the other thought that was
ridiculous - how could he be seen as a

he was cornered.

I wonder how far the teachers are actually
secure enough to actually deal with that
- to work out a policy. It’s one thing to
be self-critical - it's another for teachers
to be able to work together on a policy.

Then there's the tension between the official

line and individual teachers or groups of

teachers .

SS2 There are very big differences in style.

Official school policy on the one hand and what students observe
on the other require detailed and careful attention. The implications
of this when it comes to comparison are considerable for students
by now have access to a variety of 'views’, official and unofficial,
and acquiring and using this knowledge has immediate and practical
consequences. It is the tutor in the second extract who pointed
to likely differences between schools which could be explored further

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