Charlotte In The Press

End the woes of Britain's children with boxing - Telegraph
This week, the Conservatives are getting to grips with the childhood problem. It is this: however you look at it, the statistics show that our children are becoming obese, depressed, and increasingly prone to anti-social behaviour and alcohol abuse..
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Invisible Children - Observer
When Kim Page turned 14 she met an older crowd. Tempted by a lifestyle hanging around the local park, pubs and clubs, she soon lost interest in her family and school friends. Late nights made the mornings difficult for Kim, now 18. Sometimes, when her parents, Becky and Bruce, came to try to wake her up, she had not yet made it to bed. Kim started making excuses to avoid school. At first she would go in late, at 10am, then 11am. At 14 she stopped going altogether. When the country welcomed her year's GCSE results to much fanfare, Kim was nowhere to be seen...
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Falling educational standards in Bristol - Telegraph
Education standards in some of the poorest parts of the country have dropped in the past 10 years, according to a new report...
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Boys underachievement - Telegraph
This week, the Conservatives are getting to grips with the childhood problem. It is this: however you look at it, the statistics show that our children are becoming obese, depressed, and increasingly prone to anti-social behaviour and alcohol abuse...
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Boxing helps tackle anti-social behaviour and youth underachievement - Telegraph
If I told you there was one group of children who were three times more likely to be permanently excluded from school than any other group; one out of five of whom would have a reading age of half their years by the time they were 14; a quarter of whom would not gain a single good GCSE, who would you think I was talking about? A minority ethnic group? Those in isolated pockets of poverty? Those with English as a second language? No. The shocking truth is that immense educational underachievement is taking place under our nose, among half our school population - boys...
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Boys underachievement - Prospect Magazine
Parents have long suspected it, school reports have hinted at it and teachers have often accepted it. Now the statistics show it: school is a girl's world. Research published by the Bow Group think tank this summer revealed that boys fall dramatically behind in the key disciplines from the beginning of their school career—and then carry on falling. As young men, a significant minority fall out of school into crime, young offender institutes and sometimes prison...
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Special Needs report - Telegraph
Thousands of children with learning difficulties and behavioural problems are being expelled from mainstream schools because teachers lack the expertise to cater for them, according to a new report.
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Parents forced to go private for SEN provision - Observer
Parents whose children have special needs such as dyslexia or Asperger's syndrome have been giving up holidays, meals out and new clothes to fund costly private education following an 'exodus' from state schools...
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