All news on the topic: Schools

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Boy 'thought he was being raped by teacher who said learn from a real woman'
Fiona Carrier is accused of having sex with a schoolboy from Blue Coats School in Reading in the 1990s when she was a piano teacher, but denies several counts of indecent assault
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Wife speaks out as husband fired for standing up to yobs threatening to rape her
Michael Flynn was dismissed from his teaching role following his Facebook post which outlined how a gang of youngsters tried to steal a bike from his front garden and threatened to rape his wife
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Parent who got popular poem banned from kids school admits she hasn't read it
After the poem got taken off the curriculum, the mum later revealed that she had not read the poem or the books she complained about, and she admitted to not being a reader
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Mum slams school for 'allowing son to explode' as he's in lessons 2 hours a day'
Parents have slammed Caldecote Primary School in Cambridge, as they claim that children with special educational needs are treated in a 'dismal way' at the school
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Parents say 'pathetic' school sent students home for signing each other's shirts
Parents have branded Wymondham High Academy in Norfolk 'pathetic' after more than 50 pupils were sent home signing each others shirts on the last day of term as the school said there was 'negative behaviour'
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'I was sacked over my Facebook post after yobs threatened to murder my family'
Teacher Michael Flynn, from Gillingham, Kent, says he was sacked from his job at Twydall Primary School after posting on social media about yobs who threatened his family
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'Love Island's lessons in respect - basically misogyny for beginners'
Columnist Polly Hudson on the news that the new batch of Love Islanders will be schooled on mutually respectful relationships, and controlling and coercive behaviour, in advance of their time on the show, and that it couldn't happen soon enough
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'I had weird symptom in class at 13 - then was diagnosed with Parkinson's at 21'
John Granahan has refused to let his Parkinson's Disease stop him from living life to the fullest. He said he had his first symptom at the age of 13 and was diagnosed by the time he was 21
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Schoolboy screams in pain as skin breaks out in blisters during day at the beach
Jaxon Hallwood was at the beach in Merseyside with his grandparents Debra and Ken Patten when blisters started appearing on his foot, leaving him screaming in pain
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'Keir Starmer should put free school meals for all pupils in Labour's manifesto'
Sharon Hodgson, an MP in North East England, recalls the stigma of queueing for free dinners. But this is about more than ending any stigma for the one-in-five who receive them
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Parents slam school for using Winnie The Pooh in mass shooting safety book
Mum Cindy Campos, whose five-year-old son was sent home with the Winnie The Pooh safety guide, claimed Dallas Independent School District were "tone deaf" for distributing the book
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Outraged mum corrects daughter's 'sexist' homework filled with gender bias roles
A mum was left outraged after reading through her daughter's 'sexist' homework assignment - so she took it upon herself to change the message it was trying to send to youngsters
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Boy, 11, 'left covered in blood by school bullies slicing him with glass shard'
Charlotte Harris-Knight claims that her son returned home from school "with blood all over him" after he was attacked by other pupils and had his arms and a leg sliced with a glass shard
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Abandoned school left to rot with old textbooks on floor and 'Nerd' graffiti
A 100-year-old abandoned school, located in Upstate New York, US, was discovered by professional urban explorer, Dave, who is also known as Freaktography on TikTok
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Scientology school gets £200k taxpayer handout from Covid support scheme
The charity trust running Greenfields School, which takes pupils aged 3-18 and charges fees of up to £29,000, was handed £144,540 and £60,174 in grants
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Pupils in hospital and another 'foamed at the mouth' after smoking cannabis vape
The device, laced with THC oil, the psychoactive chemical in cannabis, was allegedly brought in by a Year 11 student in an attempt to "chill" ahead of a GCSE exam at Unity College in Burnley
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Teens arrested after 'fart spray prank' forces school evacuation
Two teens have been arrested and charged after they allegedly released a noxious 'fart spray'. Caney Creek High School was evacuated and experts were called into try and track down the smell
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'My son's teacher accused him of daydreaming - he was actually having seizures'
A mum is raising awareness of the early signs of epilepsy after her five-year-old son Ruben was accused of 'daydreaming' in class - he now has around 15 absence seizures a day
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Abandoned school 'frozen in time' with decades-old graffiti and piles of books
An urban explorer has visited an abandoned school in upstate New York that was closed in the 1980s - and shared photos from the building, showing signs of decay
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Dad's horror after child beaten in filmed attack by kids 'acting like animals'
Footage circulated online showed the victim, aged 12, surrounded by a 'mob' of around 15 other children at Chorlton Park, Greater Manchester, as some are heard screaming "go on"
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Boy, 8, picked up by dad at school on horseback becoming the envy of his friends
A remarkable scene unfolded as a dad made a grand entrance to pick up his son riding his 12-year-old horse at Rose Union Elementary School in Oklahoma City, US
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Bomb threat 'shuts' school as caller says they have 'shotgun in bathroom'
We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story
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Salons still aren't catering for Black hair - but things are starting to change
After decades of racial segregation within the hair industry, Black hairdressing is set to be taught in training colleges, heralding a new chapter for Black men and women
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Dad brutally beaten to death for trying to protect his child from school fight
Christopher Michael Wright, 43, from Maryland, died at the hospital the next day from a traumatic brain injury after the alleged attack outside his house
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School bus bursts into flames with quick-thinking driver saving lives of 6 kids
The driver rescued six kids aged 5 to 11 from the school bus before it got immersed in a menacing blaze. They were on their way home from a private Yeshiva in Queens, New York