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My point is that there are many people who pre-judge children who attend Pupil Referral Units. Those kids need better treatment than that. I'm not going to pre-judge any of them myself and I'm not going in search of a glib phrase to describe "them". They are, in fact, all individuals.

Not for having their bikes stolen. But for being the type of child who, thanks to their behaviour, have been excluded from mainstream education.

I think one of the things I'm trying to say is that describing bicycle thieves as "subhuman pieces of filth" isn't helping anyone. Maybe that comes across as wishy washy liberalism, but there's not much of that about these days, and I think the case can still be made for showing a bit of...

Why would that be? Because the young people who attend Pupil Referral Units are, for the most part, the children who have been excluded from mainstream education because of their extreme disruptive behaviour. Yes, they are vulnerable and need support. But they get little sympathy from the...

Indeed. It's interesting to see how the perpetrators of this crime are so readily described as "scum" by a good few NSC posters. Take away the description of the victims of the crime as "children with special needs" and my guess is that many of those same posters would easily be chucking the...