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If pupils avoid school due to anxiety, the system needs to change

8 February 2024

Professor Priscilla Alderson (UCL IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society) writes that high absence in schools caused by anxiety is a signal that that many schools damage mental health – by punishing failure to learn, and enforcing petty rules and detentions, isolation rooms.

Read: The Guardian