Education
Since 1999, American schools have tried to prevent a threat that had once been unthinkable.
New report underlines funding crisis with money targeted at disadvantaged children used to plug gaps.
"We have 9-year-olds talking about suicide."
New figures show that 40 percent of teachers expect to leave the profession by 2024 because of impossible workloads. Many blame an increase in data and reports that they are expected to produce, on top of their teaching schedule. Others say that they are also expected to deal with social and pastoral care, and even knife crime. We spoke to teachers up and down the country, as well as those who have quit the classroom, to find out what it’s like for them.
Stress has seen children vomit and flee exam halls in tears.
The government is passing the buck onto our museums, galleries, theatres, opera houses and orchestras to provide vital cultural education schools can no longer afford
“Between 2010 and 2020, councils will have lost almost 60p out of every £1 the government had provided for services."
Not all parents think it's a good idea.
Up to 6,000 children are being taught at the sites.
This comes months after the same publisher was slammed for publishing offensive statements in a GCSE sociology guide.