Suspension in boarding schools

[Brian]

To put things in UK 1990s context...  By the early 1990s, cellphones 
were much more common for children and by the late 1990s texting was 
beginning to take over as the main form of communication for teens, most 
houses in Britain would have had more than one TV, with a child having 
one in their bedroom being quite common.

Suspension tended to be used to very serious matters in British boarding 
schools and it would be unlikely to be for a few days, a few weeks as a 
minimum would be more likely.  Parents would not be happy as it would 
cause major inconvenience and require them to make child-care 
arrangements or stay off work.  It would pretty much be used as a final 
warning before a possible expulsion and therefore during a suspension 
parents would be expected to satisfy the school that the behaviour would 
not be repeated.

Brian