As an institution of our society, our education system reflects its norms, as well as the norms required for successful education of students. Within the social world of the classroom, there exist children who are denied full membership. Each type deviates from classroom norms in some way, and this deviance is the reason why they are outcast.
Outcasts achieve their status through the process of social othering.
This process occurs on many differernt levels within the classroom and involves differentiation of the outcasts from other students, as well as the attachment of negative stigma to outcast deviance. Social othering occurs within a myriad of other classroom dynamics, all of which the teachers must manage and direct into the education of their students. When this happens, outcasts' interests often come last.