Suspending children from school is something we rarely see from educators, especially at primary level. Teachers aim to keep kids in school, where they are safe, fed and learning. However, for a multitude of reasons, senior leadership can and do decide to temporarily suspend pupils from school. Suspensions and permanent exclusions data, published in a Gov.uk package in April 2024, includes figures revealing which Sheffield primary schools handed out the most suspensions in the 2021-22 academic...
It is extremely rare for educators to decide that a pupil cannot return to their schools - it is the absolute last resort, when all other options have been exhausted. Children must be in education. It is a legal requirement and means if a child is subject to a permanent exclusion from one school then the local authority must arrange full-time education as soon as possible. They are so rare that in Sheffield only seven of the 153 primary schools within the local authority issued them in the...
Editor's note: This story was updated to correct the name of the Texas House candidate Gov. Greg Abbott was stumping for in San Antonio. In his latest attack on LGBTQ+ Texans, Gov. Greg Abbott suggested he wants the state to prohibit transgender and gender nonconforming people from being schoolteachers. During a speech at a Young Conservatives of Texas meeting in Dallas on Friday, Abbott said he wants the state to "end" teachers wearing clothes that don't conform to their gender...
Trans teen Maelle Jacques, who was born a male and previously won a girl's high jump state championship , said she didn't join female sports to win outright.
To the editor: In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Brown vs. Board of Education that it was unconstitutional for public schools to segregate students by race. ("Murrieta Valley board defies California, will keep policy to tell parents about LGBTQ+ transitioning," April 19) So how did many districts that had to desegregate their schools react? Instead of following the law, many officials put on a decades-long resistance to this well-thought-out decision. I thought of these actions when I...
A Sheffield teacher has been banned from the profession for life for grooming a teenage girl he met online. Liam O’Leary, aged 38, was working at Beck Primary School in Shiregreen in 2013 when he met the girl aged under 16, messaged her for weeks, and met with her for sexual activity, a teacher misconduct panel heard. It also heard that over a two-month period starting in 2013 he encouraged the girl to send dozens of indecent images of herself and exchanged 2,147 messages, some sexually...
Five middle school students were banned from future shot put competitions. They refused to participate against Becky Pepper-Jackson, 13, on April 18. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has filed a lawsuit against the school district
Katharine Birbalsingh, who has been called Britain's strictest head, said the landmark ruling was a 'victory for all schools' as she hit out at 'bullying identity politics'.
Six Naperville school lockdowns are in place amid a police investigation in
After a contentious search for a new principal at the Amherst Regional Middle School the district has failed to find someone to fill the role and halted their search.
In most cases, when school boards are confronted about issues, it is the parents confronting them. After all, not only are they the taxpayers, but they also have a vested interest in their children's education. In a recent case, however, one student didn't wait around for her parents to take on her local school board. In what is a pretty gutsy move for someone her age, she decided to take the school board on herself. When it's parents taking on the school board, in many cases, they turn a deaf...
Evans, 32, revealed she is homeschooling son Kaiser, 9, and daughter Ensley, 7, until summer break. The reality star filed for a separation from Eason in March, claiming he was drinking profusely and overspending her money . Eason was previously criminally charged for allegedly assaulting Evans' son Jace, 14