Brussels leads the way in prosecutions and suspensions of secondary education
The Brussels region is based on the number of variants of the total copies in Dutch-speaking secondary students in Dutch-speaking secondary education. This is apparent from figures that Flemish Member of Parliament Loes Vandromme (CD&V) requested from Minister of Education Ben Weyts (N-VA).
Brussels may have a much smaller Dutch-speaking school population than say Antwerp, but the capital has practically the most total number of suspensions and final plans.
A structure suspension is a warning in which the school arises what the next steps are for the student. A temporary (of definitive) choice is a disciplinary measure whereby a pupil is not allowed to come to school for a minimum of 1 to a maximum of 15 school days.
In the whole of Brussels, in the hot 2020-2021, there were 212 students who were suspended preventively in Dutch-language secondary education. That is 1.29 percent of the total Brussels school population. Relative share with Antwerp, the Flemish province with the largest absolute number of suspensions (1,339, from 0.99), Brussels still leads the way.
The number of suspensions in Brussels is well interrelated, if it were 229 (1.44 percent of the Brussels secondary school population).
In addition, another 205 pupils (1.25 percent of the Brussels school population) were temporarily excluded in the region, compared to 335 (2.11 percent) a year earlier. Also in the final editions, Brussels is number in the Flemish provinces.
Ten slots later definitively excluded a further 94 students in Brussels, a huge drop in 2018-2019 when there were still 250.
Brussels stood out enormously in 2019-2020 if we look at the proportional number of students in Dutch-speaking BSO who were temporarily excluded, namely 7.42 percent of Brussels students.
‘Disturbing trend’
In education against primary education suspensions throughout Flanders and Dutch-speaking Brussels in a time from 96 to 156. Fewer students were temporarily excluded: from 56 to 52.
Globally, there is also an increase in the number of suspensions in secondary education, from 2019-2020 to 4.2 to 4.2 in the body 2020-2021. That increase can be “almost fully increased due to an increase in the first phase of secondary education”, Vandromme won .
The number of students excluded rose from 2,930 to 3,441. The final of school-age children under more or less stable.
Vandromme finds the fact that more students are suspended preventively or even permanently excluded from school as a “disturbing trend”.
“Early negative experiences in education have an impact on the further development of life and learning,” she says. “We must focus much more on a connecting living and learning climate in our schools: provide a structure, rules that are clear to permanent residents and create a warm environment where students and teachers feel good.”
It is only since the 2019-2020 that schools with the Agency for Educational Services (AGODI) store data on the suspensions and the temporary of permanent ones.