HEAD-TEACHERS seldom exclude pupils lightly, but a system of sharing them out among local schools seems fairest.
Secondary school heads are currently poised to agree to a new "exchange" system which would see them take in a pupil expelled from another school each time they expel one of their own.
Three local schools are reluctant to sign up for this new system. But we would urge them to do so.
As Education Director Margaret Blenkinsop rightly stresses, this new system would stop some schools becoming "pockets of difficulty".
Plainly, it is the duty of all head-teachers to look beyond their own school grounds when it comes to creating a better structure for the educational future of Bolton.
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