26 h. ago Teacher banned from the classroom after throwing pupil out of doorway into playground

Police gave the former teacher a caution for assault by beating

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3 d. ago Teacher banned after shocking classroom comments and 'anal copulation' claims

Patrick Lawler, who taught in Northumberland and Bristol, has been banned from the classroom after expressing radical views and making shocking remarks to children

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3 d. ago Teacher banned for telling pupils gay men are 'unnatural' and Islam is 'demonic'

Patrick Lawler was banned from teaching indefinitely with a minimum of four years before he can apply for reinstatement due to the 'high risk of similar misconduct reoccurring'

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4 d. ago Sick female UK teacher who had pupil's baby banned for sex with students

A disgraced maths teacher from Greater Manchester has been struck off from the profession after being jailed for having sex with two teenage pupils, one of whom she became pregnant by

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5 d. ago History teacher who called Islam 'satanic' and told pupils that 'cocaine was purer back in the day' is struck off

Patrick Lawler, 62, told one Year 6 class how civil rights activist Martin Luther King was a 'fraud' and that Rosa Parks did not really exist.

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5 d. ago Teacher banned after telling pupils Rosa Parks did not give up bus seat and Martin Luther King was a fraud

Patrick Lawler told year six pupils Rosa Parks ‘did not really exist’

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5 d. ago The long and unrelenting battle to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Martin Luther King Jr. Day's reach has only grown in its 42 years

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8 d. ago Randy couple caught in 'lewd sex act' on back seat of double decker London bus

A man and a woman travelling on a public bus were filmed vigorously 'going at it' as Londoners were outraged at the public nature of the apparent 'romp' on December 29

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2 w. ago Paedophile teacher Rebecca Joynes banned from the classroom after sex with pupils

Maths teacher Rebecca Joynes, 31, became pregnant after having sex with one of her Year 11 pupils and is currently serving a six-and-a-half years jail sentence

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2 w. ago Female paedophile teacher, 30, nicknamed 'Bunda Becky' who had sex with two schoolboys and fell pregnant to one is banned from classroom for life

Rebecca Joynes, 32, slept with the pupils at a Manchester school before becoming pregnant with one of their children in March 2023.

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2 w. ago The hill I will die on: Ignore the haters, TK Maxx is actually quite good | Hannah J Davies

The chaos is undeniable, but where else are you going to get a pair of jeans and a pistachio-cream panettone cake for such a reasonable price?‘Oh it’s a mess!” my mum says, shaking her head. “It’s like a jumble sale.” I’m fresh from a trip to TK Maxx, and all I’m getting is negativity. A couple of days later I’m watching Educating Yorkshire when it happens again: one of the teachers tells his pupils to tidy up, lest their classroom look like one of its stores.Quite frankly, I’m sick of the slander. Sure, I’ve been in some branches that do look like a tornado has just blown through them. But, these days, they’re few and far between. My local TK Maxx, in a nice enough London suburb, is tidy and organised – so much so that when I hid a pair of Good American jeans the other day to “have a think” and then circled back for them, they had already been moved.Hannah J Davies is a freelance culture writer and editor Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Dave Chappelle says he was ‘shook’ by killing of Charlie Kirk in new Netflix special

Dave Chappelle has said he was “shook” by the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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3 w. ago Teacher who asked teenage girl about her ‘kinks’ banned from classroom

Thomas Munro told one pupil ‘his fetish was girls in skirts and tights’

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3 w. ago Maths teacher caught with hundreds of stolen bank card details banned from the classroom

Louis Ssekabira told teachers he had found the details on a laptop bought from Gumtree, a professional misconduct hearing was told

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3 w. ago Review: Jack and the Beanstalk panto reboot as a thinly veiled criticism of academy schools

The Hammersmith Lyric's Jack and the Beanstalk panto is four out of five stars, telling the classic tale where pupils are inmates at an austere school.

Culture

4 w. ago East London teacher banned over bizarre 4 hour 'racist and misogynistic' classroom rant

East London teacher banned over bizarre 4 hour 'racist and misogynistic' classroom rant  My London

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last month Teacher who messaged child 'I was horny' banned from profession

Lianne Barclay was a food technology teacher at a high school when concerns about her behaviour towards a child emerged

Society

last month Teacher banned from classroom as 'sexually motivated' messages to child revealed

In 'sexually motivated' messages and voice notes, Miss Barclay told a child, 'Can't wait for a cuddle', 'you're mine', and 'I will never stop loving you', a Teacher Regulation Agency panel heard

Society