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A six-year-old girl, the only German speaker in her entire class, has claimed she was viciously beaten by foreign-background students and even cut with a sharp object by another student.

(AP) — One of the first big storms of the season moved across the eastern half of the country, leaving five people dead and closing schools as the freakish weather brought snow as far south as Alabama.

In what is being described as a “messy mix” of snow, sleet, and freezing rain, winter appears to have come early to Washington, D.C., causing commute delays and school cancelations across the nation’s capital. 

The Scottish education system is to become the first in the world where primary and secondary schools are required in the curriculum to promote LGBT identity and lifestyles.

Parents have reacted with anger after it emerged that pupils at an English school had been sharing classes with a “30-year-old” asylum seeker who is now being investigated by the Home Office.

The leaders of an “Islamic learning centre,” that taught only Muslim were saved by God, have become the first-ever in the UK convicted for operating an illegal and unregistered school in England.

Around one in 10 UK councils are supplying sharia law-compliant halal meat to schools produced in a way considered cruel by all major animal rights groups.

Marks and Spencer has been criticised for selling hijabs as part of its school uniform range, with anti-extremism campaigner Majid Nawaz condemning the leading British department store for “facilitating medievalism”.

The UK government is reportedly set to give private primary schools an opt-out on controversial requirements meaning young children have to be taught about homosexual lifestyles in a bid to encourage “tolerance”.

Six asylum seekers in the Italian city of Savona have been arrested for attempting to sell drugs to children outside schools in the city and posing as minors.

Incidents of physical violence in Swedish schools have increased by 129 percent from 2012 to 2017, according to data.

A Muslim teacher who labelled homosexuals “animals” who should be “eradicated” has lost a claim of unfair dismissal, where he argued he was discriminated against because he is Muslim.

British police forces are warning children that they may be subject to “honour based violence” such as forced marriages and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) when they go on vacation as the prevalence of the crimes spikes amongst the country’s minority communities during the school summer break.

Almost four out of five UK nurseries ban children and infants from playing with toy weapons over fears it will encourage violence, a survey has found.

Schools in Britain have begun to ditch positions like head boy and head girl in a bid to fight gender stereotypes because the surging numbers of young people claiming to be transgender “make the roles difficult to sustain”, according to The Guardian.

The government should take measures to stop parents withdrawing their children from some lessons where they have to study Islam or visit mosques, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has said.

Pupils need schools to “give them the facts” about their options for terminating pregnancies in order to counter “inaccurate” information from pro-life campaigns, according to a motion passed at a teachers’ conference.

Winter Storm Toby has paralyzed the East Coast of the United States making travel hazardous, shutting down the federal government, canceling thousands of domestic flights, and causes some states to declare emergencies.

Statistics collected by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show that nearly one-third of children in British schools are immigrants, higher even than the EU average.

Some Arkansas schools are displaying hundreds of posters of the national motto “In God We Trust” after outside special interest groups claimed that the state is using the posters to endorse Christianity.

Sheriff David Clarke blamed the nation’s crippling cycle of poverty and the “myth” of mass incarceration of black males on the Democrats and their “failed, liberal urban policies” which he says have “screwed this country up.”

Delaware is preparing to pass a rule that would allow the state’s students to “choose” their own race and gender without the approval or knowledge of parents.

The government is too politically correct to help schools attempting to ban Islamic hijabs, leaving teachers “alone, isolated and vulnerable”, the former head of Ofsted has said.

International education rankings will begin testing how well schools are “nurturing” globalist attitudes in pupils on topics like mass migration and feminism.

New Department for Education statistics show one in eight English schools are ‘failing’, with white working class pupils served especially badly.

West Virginia state legislators introduced a bill that would require the state’s schools to offer an elective course on Hebrew Scriptures, the Old Testament, or the New Testament in the Bible.

A Christian teacher is suing his secondary school after being suspended for referring to a biologically female student as a “girl” despite them “identifying” as a boy.

School inspectors are so concerned at the level of sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and anti-Western material in Britain’s Islamic schools, they have compiled a dossier of examples.

The Church of England has responded to criticism of the sexualisation of infant students wearing the Islamic headscarf by encouraging its schools to continue setting “culturally and religiously sensitive” uniform policies.

Teachers should avoid calling female pupils “girls” or “ladies” because it means they are “constantly reminded of their gender”, a former government mental health tsar has said.

A high court judge has implied it is right for unaccompanied child asylum seekers to be given preferential access to taxpayer-funded medical treatment and desirable school places.

Experts have prepared terror attack advice for British children, and police have said it should be taught in schools and colleges after a string of deadly attacks in the UK.

A teacher who fronted a major recruitment campaign for the Department for Education accused schools of “indoctrinating” pupils “from a very young age” in the wake of the EU referendum, it has emerged.

Thousands of British school children are being put at risk in unregistered religious centres and schools, the new chief inspector warns.

The parents of a student in California’s San Ramon Valley Unified School District are suing the district for discriminating against their son for a video he made as part of a school election campaign in which he pretends to save his fellow students from radical Islamic terrorists.

Headteachers at state-funded schools may have breached purdah rules by appearing to campaign against the Conservative party before the general election. Parents and families received a series of politicized messages during the general election campaign, delivered in letters and on