When i was a child i was very much like Jordan Green, disruptive at school, abusive, threatening to teachers, swearing constantly, and playing up to the crowd. I ended up in a children s home after my parents gave up on me (age 13). I was suicidal and felt very deeply an anger to the school teachers and my parents for not trying to understand me, instead constantly punishing me... that had the opposite effect.
After the same behavior got me transferred from a children s home into a borstal i was then abused in many ways possible by staff and security staff and children (mainly beaten on a daily basis for 1 year and 1 day). I didnt deserve those beatings nor did i deserve to be locked up at the age of 15 simply for being out of control (in that i would refuse to do as i was told ... then when forced or punished i would kick off). I can understand Jordan, i too simply hated authority (i still do), i hated being forced to go to school and questioned my freedom on a regular basis, i also questioned "who are these poeple to tell me? what makes them better then me? why should i do what they say? why cant i do what i want?
After borstal came prison, and a life in prison and out of prison based around courts and the justice system, then when i turned about 28 i had a epileptic fit, it was then that i met a consultant who after many tests informed me why i had acted the way i did when i was a child.. because of a rare type of epilepsy. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. You see that type of epilepsy is in the frontal lobes of your brain.. so your emotions are played with by the condition. I have a feeling Jordan may have suffered the same or similar to that. Or maybe Jordan was simply a free spirit who would never have allowed anyone in authority command control over himself. Behind the bravado and the acting hard and the swearing and shouting was a boy who was at odds with the world and himself. To end your life at 12 is a travesty and it is shameful on all of those around him, every person in his life should have supported him, not turned him away, the school abandoned their obligation to this child, he should have been included not excluded, he should have been given as many chances as it takes.. schools today expel for the slightest thing, society in the UK is at an all time high absolute joke, our society removes people that do not fit in, or tow the line. What does it teach the rest of the school children? it teaches that as they become adults this is the type of society they must fit into .. a sterile society where basically everything is wrong, speaking out, swearing, smoking, being fat, being too thin, being different, anger, violence .... etc etc... its all not acceptable in today's society.
But Human Nature is what it is... we are all different .. honestly we are, though you wouldn't believe it when you look at a crowd of people anywhere in this country... same cars, same clothes ... we have become a collective. Jordan would never have had any sort of good life because he was wouldn't fit into what is acceptable. The school made sure of that when they expelled him to a life of social services input, then children s homes, then secure units, then prisons, ..... do you see the pattern?
Jordan you are in my and many others thoughts. Fly high lad.
'Have a nice life mum': Final words of boy, 12, who hanged himself hours after being expelled from school
- Jordan Green found hanged in his bedroom after he was excluded from school
- Schoolboy had become increasingly disruptive after his grandmother's death and his parents separation
By ANNA EDWARDS
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A 12-year-old schoolboy who was excluded from school hanged himself just hours later, an inquest heard today.
Jordan Green,12, had hurled chairs round a room, sworn at staff and threatened them.
At first he was excluded from school for one day and when his behaviour worsened the ban was increased to five days before eventually the principal banned him permanently.
And when he told his mother Heidi of the ban he said: 'Have a nice life mum, I just feel like killing myself'.
Hairdresser Heidi Green found her son Jordan in his bedroom hours after he had been excluded from school
Ms Green said she tried calling him later, adding: 'He wouldn’t answer his phone and I thought "he obviously doesn’t want to speak to me".'
The hairdresser said she returned to their home in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, after 8pm and told the inquest: 'I assumed that he wasn’t home.
'I thought he was playing with his friends.'
Medics believe he had been dead several hours when his body was found on June 27 last year.
Today, an inquest in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, heard how Jordan, whose mother was separated from his father, Kevin, had been disruptive even when he was at primary school.
Jordan had become increasingly disruptive in lessons since his grandmother died and his parents separated, Mrs Green told the hearing.
When he went to Harrogate High School, his behaviour became worse, causing him to be excluded from lessons on several occasions.
Jordan, seen with his mother, had become increasingly disruptive in lessons since his grandmother died and his parents separated, an inquest heard
Vice principal Ann Francis said staff had had numerous meetings to decide how to help Jordan, who was academically adept but regularly disrupted classes and swore at teachers.
On occasions he would just start running round the 800-student school and hide from staff who were looking for him.
At one stage he was put in a special educational unit where his behaviour improved.
But last June the decision was finally made to exclude him from the school for good.
That morning he had left his home upset after he refused to get out of bed and go to school.
When he did get there he was put in a 'chill room' to calm down before he returned to normal lessons.
Miss Francis said he was allowed to use the computers in the room and was kept there because he seemed sleepy.
But just over an hour later Jordan left the room without permission and a call went out to a special staff response team to find him.
The schoolboy was permanently excluded from Harrogate High School on the day he died
Miss Francis said: 'He was seen in different parts of the school but would not stop or listen to anyone.'
For around half an hour, she admitted staff did not know where Jordan was until he was seen in the cafeteria but when staff tried to talk to him he was abusive to them and ran away.
Eventually he was persuaded back into the chill room and staff tried to calm him down but he was 'quite difficult and agitated,' said Miss Francis.
It was then that the school principal Andrew Bayston decided to exclude Jordan for a day.
But when Jordan realised staff were trying to contact his parents he started shouting 'mum is getting ill' and began throwing things around, including a board game and a chair.
Miss Francis said: 'He was screaming and shouting abuse at staff who decided to leave him in the room to calm down.'
At one stage another class of pupils were moved out of an adjoining room because they could see what was happening.
And because of Jordan’s behaviour the school principal increased the ban to five days.
When Ms Green was contacted she told the school she could not collect him because she was working - but gave permission for the school to let him return home.
But then Jordan's behaviour deteriorated and two members of staff had to stand in front of a glass door as he tried to punch it and then threw himself at it.
At one stage he picked up a chair and held it above his head, threatening to hit a member of staff with it.
In an attempt to diffuse the situation Miss Francis ordered doors to be opened so that Jordan could leave school after she talked to him and he calmed down.
Moments after leaving school, Jordan returned to pick up his scooter and minutes later returned again, asking for food and he was given some.
But after another meeting between staff the principal decided that Jordan should be excluded from the school permanently.
After that decision had been made, it would be up to the local authority to decide on Jordan’s future.
Miss Francis said that suggestions that Jordan, who lived with his mother, had been bullied were wrong and Jordan had never reported that he had been bullied.
The inquest continues.
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