A council report says an increasing number of parents are refusing school places offered to them.
More children are not going to school because they have health or other issues, or because of their parents’ (religious) principles, putting their rights under pressure, children’s ombudsman Margrite Kalverboer has said in a letter to education minister Mariëlle Paul. Local council figures show some 7,389 children with a physical or mental impairment do not currently go to school compared to 5,077 children in 2014. That year a law obliging schools to provide fitting education to all children was...
School breakfast programs? Has anyone bothered to find out why some children are coming to school without having eaten breakfast? Have their parents been confronted with this unacceptable situation? It is the parents’ responsibility to feed their children, not the school’s. If parents cannot afford to feed them, then grocery vouchers should be provided by […]
Drivers caught speeding outside a school are to be asked to come inside and
Short-sightedness among young children is becoming more common because they are spending too much time staring at screens, eye hospitals are warning. There are no exact national figures but the eye departments at hospitals across the country are reporting a clear upward trend in the number of young children with problems. “It has been going on for years and it’s only getting worse,” Maastricht University child eye specialist Jilke Beinsberger told Nu.nl. “We think that in a couple of years
Jonathan Young, who represented the 4th District in the Richmond City School Board, has announced his resignation.
Councils will have to consider cost-cutting, merging with other schools and shutting, think tank says
Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology have found that the correlation between face masks and perceptions of trustworthiness may be linked to social norms rather than how they impact appearance.
SEC Forced To Halt Climate Reporting Mandate For Businesses Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) paused the implementation of its climate disclosure requirements for companies as legal challenges against the rules are pending in a circuit court. In March, the SEC finalized a controversial rule requiring publicly traded companies to disclose any climate-related risks to their business. The SEC’s Final Rules also...
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The former president's complaint that he might be unable to attend his son Barron's high school graduation due to his trial spawned misinformation.
Cllr Dulcie Tudor wants to know if teachers are assisting pupils to socially transition without their parents knowing and if Cornwall Council is providing a pathway for 'vulnerable children from the classroom to the clinic'