A senior nursery worker has been awarded £5,000 by an employment tribunal after she was sacked for teaching children to kick her colleague and call her ‘smelly’. Siobhan Flynn was fired after fellow carer Laura McLauchlan complained that the team leader was ‘bullying’ and ‘harassing’ her. Miss Flynn was said to have taught kids how … Read more
A senior nursery worker has been awarded £5,000 by an employment tribunal after she was sacked for teaching children to kick her colleague and call her ‘smelly’. Siobhan Flynn was fired after fellow carer Laura McLauchlan complained that the team leader was ‘bullying’ and ‘harassing’ her. Miss Flynn was said to have taught kids how … Read more
Teaching pupils about their ‘white privilege’ could be against the law, MPs’ report says White working-class pupils are one of the worst-achieving groups in the country Report done by MPs found that those students ‘feel anything but privileged’ It found they are behind many peers of other ethnicities aged five, 16 and 18 By Eleanor … Read more
An English teacher at a $52,000-a-year private school in Englewood, New Jersey has quit her job over critical race theory lessons she has branded racist. Dana Stangel-Plowe, who taught at the Dwight-Englewood School in Bergen County, accused the school of creating a ‘hostile culture of conformity and fear’ in her resignation letter on Tuesday. Stangel-Plowe said … Read more
The contribution of black people to British history and culture should be taught in all subjects at school, a teaching union’s conference has been told. The NASUWT’s annual conference heard that the national curriculum is ‘lacking’ and some teachers have taken it into their own hands to ‘decolonise their classrooms’. A motion passed at the … Read more
The union representing the teacher who showed a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad had donated money to the charity that went on to oust him. The National Education Union’s (NEU) Kirklees branch, in West Yorkshire, which represents the Batley Grammar School teacher, had donated £3,000 to the charity Purpose of Life who went on to publish the … Read more
Britain’s largest teaching union has demanded GCSEs are abolished amid fears of a ‘Wild West’ of rampant grade inflation this summer. The National Education Union said there is a growing movement to challenge the status quo among Tory MPs and other powerful groups. It asked whether there was any function for the tests when pupils … Read more
Baby’s first steps! Anna Heinrich shares adorable video of her husband Tim Robards playfully teaching their four-month-old daughter Elle how to walk By Daily Mail Australia Reporter Published: 04:06 GMT, 20 March 2021 | Updated: 04:06 GMT, 20 March 2021 They proudly welcomed their first daughter Elle into the world last year in November. And … Read more
A teaching union has suggested schools may have to close again if not enough students wear face masks, as millions of pupils return to their classrooms today. The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL)’s chief, Geoff Barton, has warned that a wave of non-compliance from students over the Government’s rules of face mask could … Read more
Hardline union bosses are bringing the teaching profession ‘into disrepute’ by opposing the reopening of all schools next month, a former Government education adviser claimed last night. Nine organisations representing most teachers and headteachers in England have united to brand plans to reopen primary and secondary schools from March 8 ‘reckless’. Instead of the so-called … Read more