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Mum Taken to Court for Letting Son Miss School to Attend Her Wedding
What a ridiculous waste of the courts time. Fining parents for truancy is bad enough, but opposing a parent from letting her own child attend her wedding is just insane! A mother who took her son out...
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Never Mistake Compassion with the Threat of a Lawsuit
This decision has nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with protecting the school. Schools should embrace students with challenges, conditions and allergies not isolate or...
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What’s Next? A No Breathing Rule?
Let’s examine the hopelessly inept WA Education Department policy on hugging. They have decided to impose a zero tolerance “no hugging rule” for the following two reasons: 1. Some children in the past...
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How About Punishing the Students Who do Something Wrong?
What is the point of punishing students whose only sin was to dye their hair to raise money for charity? How many students do you know of who actively use their time and energy for raising money for...
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Students are Continually Treated Like Prisoners
One of my biggest goals since entering teaching was that my students appreciate my classes enough to actually want to attend them. My dream is to have my students wake up on a school morning and say:...
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Even Prisoners Don’t Have to Beg for Toilet Paper
Can you think of anything more demeaning and utterly disrespectful than making students who need to go to the toilet first report to head office to sign for their own toilet roll? An eastern...
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The School Food Fight that Lead to 9 Arrests
Food fights can be as destructive as any other forms of fighting. Still, this seems like a bit of an overreaction: While food fights may be the hallmark of the quintessential cafeteria scene in many...
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Should Non-Muslim Teachers Be Forced to Wear a Hijab?
This story is making waves in Australia at the moment. I have no problem with a school making its teachers wear a hijab on condition of employment. However, if a teacher has been working without a...
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Student Suspended for Disarming Teen Who Had Gun On School Bus (Video)
If you can get suspended for averting a potential disaster on a school bus one wonders what punishment you would get for saving the entire school: A Florida high school student was suspended after he...
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School Bans Girls Leggings Because the Boys are Getting Too Distracted
I have no problem with schools enforcing a standard dress code to ensure that its students look tidy and respectable. I do have a problem with banning female clothes because of the ‘distraction...
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Children Suspended for a Week Because Parents Missed an Information Session
Are schools not designed to serve the interests of its students? How on earth is it in a child’s best interests to be banned from school for a week just because his parents failed to turn up to a...
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This is What I Think of the No Hugging Rule at Schools
It is becoming all the rage to ban children from hugging each other at recess. This is what I think of the rule: Click on the link to read Political Correctness at School Click on...
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Rules that Restrict the Teacher and Enslave the Student
A heartfelt and extremely well articulated rant against the current rules restricting ESL teachers in the classroom. Click on the link to read This is What I Think of the No Hugging Rule at...
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Top 10 Most Unusual School Bans
Schools should be working on making the school going experience more manageable not more stifling. Below are the top 10 most usual school bans courtesy of ozteacher.com.au: Hugging This rule has...
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Cancer Sufferer Claims she was Banned from Daughter’s School Because of her...
If this is true it is absolutely shameful. Schools should help foster a greater respect for members of society, especially those going through traumatic challenges. How dare they discriminate against...
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Girl Faces Expulsion for Being a Victim of Bullying
A perfect example of how a poor school culture encourages students to bully others. A girl’s mother complains to the school because her daughter is being mocked for her distinctive hairstyle. The...
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When Standing Up for Your Students Gets You Fired
If this Principal got fired for doing nothing more than trying to end a humiliating policy, the decision makers involved should be banned from ever being involved with school policy again: A former...
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School Makes Children Pay to Use the Toilet
What is it with obsessing over the learning time lost due to toilet breaks? Either these breaks are legitimate in which case it is our duty to ensure that our students have access to the toilet, or...
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How Many Teachers Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb? (Part 2)
Earlier today I posted a very comical answer to the famous light bulb joke. I recommend you read it, as it is extremely funny and perceptive. Part 2 is devoted to the actual answer. How many teachers...
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You Can’t Have Your Lunch and Eat it Too
Imagine ripping lunches away from students because after serving them they found that their parents haven’t yet settled the cafeteria bill. One second the children have their lunch tray, the next they...
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