critics of labelling theory

• labelling theory is deterministic, it assumes students who are labelled have no choice but to full their prophecy and fail.

  studies like Mary Fuller impky that this is not true.
• Marxists critise labelling theory for ignoring wider power structures within where labelling takes place
• labelling theory tends to blame teahcers for labelling students but does not explain why they do it.
• Marxists argue that labelling are not just a result of teachers individual bias but they stem from the fact that teachers work in a system that that reproduces class divsion.