[senco-forum] how many pupils are disafffected in your school ?

I've been helping someone out with their Masters and she's doing it about disaffected pupils. 

Now, it depends how you define this but I wondered how many pupils you thought were disaffected in your school.

People tend to think of the high profilers I think - those who are a pain, we do PSPs for and call in behaviour support etc. They're the noisy ones who won't put up with it.

I think there are many more, just quietly working away, bored and not really connected with what is going on in school but not making too many waves. I reckon there could be 15 or so in most years (168 in a year) maybe 10% - and that's really just a guess.

What do others think ?
How would you measure disaffection ? Is there a questionnaire you could give kids, like a learning styles questionnaire ?

Just a thought

JaniceJanice Wray Secondary SENCO, Herts
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