An increase in pupils being excluded from schools in the Nithsdale area could be linked to the pressures of home learning during the pandemic, according to the region’s education boss.
Jim Brown, Dumfries and Galloway Council’s chief education officer, this week described home learning when schools were shut as “disproportionately challenging” for some youngsters.
He suspects this could have led to an unexpected increase in exclusion rates across Nithsdale when pupils returned to school.
