20 Feb 2020

School principals wrestle with enrolling violent kids

From Morning Report, 8:20 am on 20 February 2020

More now on our earlier story on schools increasingly resisting attempts to make them enrol children who have been kicked out of other schools for violent behaviour.

Primary school principals say they are facing a "growing sea of violence" and the Education Ministry has told MPs it is having diffculty directing schools to enrol violent students.

Perry Rush is the president of the Principals Federation speaks to Corin Dann.