By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent Telegraph
A third of parents are so unhappy with their child’s school they would advise other families not to send their children there, new figures from Ofsted have revealed.
Thousands of parents who have rated their schools on a new website run by the schools watchdog have raised concerns about teaching, behaviour, bullying and levels of homework. An initial analysis of results shows that just under a third of families with children at the 650 primary and secondary schools with sufficient responses to give results said they …

Sarah EbnerNovember 29 2011 schoolgate Times
Oh dear. It’s strike day and I’d like to be sympathetic to the teachers. I really would.
But the reality is that I feel rather conflicted. We live in very difficult times. True, they are not caused by teachers, but neither are they caused by me, or many other private sector workers. Everyone is feeling the pinch. Everyone is going to have to retire later than they expected. And some of us don’t have any pensions at all.
I do value teachers, but I’m not really sure …

Ministers warn a wide range of steps are needed to combat ‘transphobic bullying’, which is defined as
the taunting of children who express ‘gender variant behaviours’.

There are some things you never want to hear your child say, and when it comes to his education, “Mummy, my teacher doesn’t
like me!” tops the list. So what can you do …

I started my work as a parents champion during the 1980′s teachers strike when asking a question on David Jacobs any Questions programme discussing the damaged caused to children’s learning.

Leading literacy experts will utrge the Government to abandon plans for a compulsory national reading test for all six-year-olds next summer.

Report by
Tim Paget Chad
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Mum’s anger at school punishment after incident
A Mansfield Mum.who says her eight-year old daughter was ‘sexually assaulted’ at school has criticised the punishment handed out to the two boys responsible.
The girl was allegedly pinned up against a wall and kicked while the pair of boys,
who are also aged eight and in the same class, carried out the attack .Her 24-year-old mother said the schoolgirl was left upset and frightened by the incident, which took place earlier this week And she says the two …

Dear Parents,
How long does it take for a vital national profession to accept that it is continuing in an error that is has damaged, and is continuing to damage, millions of lives? History provides some examples. Here is one in medicine.
Until the middle of the 19th century, ‘childbed fever’ was killing up to one third of mothers and their babies. Royal mothers were not immune.The following account of happened next can be found in Wikipedia:In the early 1800s a Hungarian doctor called Semmelweis discovered that washing hands with antiseptic …

By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent Sunday Telegraph
Wizard of Oz, 1939 Photo: REX FEATURES
Teachers should censor the toy box to replace witches’ black hats with a pink ones and dress fairies in darker shades, according to a consultant who has issued advice to local authorities.From the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz to Meg, the good witch from the Meg and Mog children’s books, witches have always dressed in black.
But their traditional attire has now come in for criticism from equality experts who claim it could send …

Children may be taught in “split shifts” at primary schools because of a critical shortage of places sparked by immigration and a rocketing birth rate.