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It follows a landmark review of gender services in England and Wales which
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 […]
Mary is the one behind the camera of her children's birthday portraits. She often features the family's pets in the snaps. Her personal snaps prove her commitment to being a 'modern' ruler. READ MORE:
‘They’re going to be holding many principals or teachers accountable,’ governor says by Michael Moline, Florida Phoenix The DeSantis administration plans to punish teachers and principals deemed to be exploiting public school book challenges to, in the governor’s view, “weaponize” Florida’s parental rights laws. DeSantis leveled that charge Monday during a news conference in Pensacola. On Tuesday, he raised it again during a second news conference in Jacksonville, where he signed...
"Mary Poppins" was Julie Andrews' first film. Her second film was "The Sound of Music." If she had never made another movie, she might still be one of Hollywood's most endearing and beloved stars and generation after generation would still be singing along. Though that was just the beginning of a career literally in its eighth decade, it's a very good place to start. Because now, Julie Andrews is a writer of children's books, with co-author, and daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. Their latest is...
Drivers caught speeding outside a school are to be asked to come inside and
When compiling this list of movies based on children's books, I wasn't concerned about how closely they followed the books. I just cared if they were good. Here are 13 movies I liked that you can share with your children—and perhaps inspire them to pick up a copy of the corresponding book.
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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.