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Black working-class young people in England are being unfairly excluded and criminalised by a two-tier education system , a thinktank has said.An Institute of Race Relations IRR report focusing on London says government responses to inner-city youth rebellions and moral panics over serious youth violence and knife crime have led to black pupils disproportionately being sent to pupil referral units PRU and alternative provision AP .Young black Caribbean boys are nearly four times more likely to receive a permanent school exclusion and twice as likely to receive a fixed-period exclusion than the school po stanley bottles pulation as a whole, making them the most excluded group apart from Gypsy and Traveller children.Warning of a PRU-to-prison pipeline, the IRR report notes that 89% of children in detention in 2017-18 reported having been excluded from school, according to the HM chief inspector of prisons for England and Wales.The reports author, Jessica Perera, an IRR researcher, said: Amidst the Black Lives Matter protests, we have seen increased demands to decolonise the curriculum. At the same time, the coronavirus pandemic has exposed a system which fails working-class students. This pa stanley cup per reminds us that those who have been continually failed are found in PRUs and AP and that their stanley spain segregation is a damning indictment of a planned education malaise, which has been designed and deployed on a specific section of society with a history of resistance and rebellion. Reviewing education Kdrn Impact of air pollution on health may be far worse than thought, study suggests
Actor Craig McLachlan has been accused of deliberately lying about giving air kisses to female colleagues while under bedsheets, out of sight of the audience, during a scene in the Rocky Horror Show.In the New South Wales supreme court on Thursday, McLachlan, 56, was asked about seemingly conflicting accounts of whether he continued to kiss the body of whichever actor was playing the character of Janet after he had disappeared under the bedsheets.After McLachlan claimed he made air kisses for comed stanley quencher y, defence barrister Michael Hodge QC accused the actor of making the story up after seeing video footage of him continuing to make kissing sounds after he had dropped down under the covers.Craig McLachlan says 2018 reports of his alleged misconduct made h stanley uk im feel helpless, court hearsRead more Its a deliberate lie, Hodge said. No, its not, McLachlan replied.McLachlan is suing the ABC, Fairfax, and actor Christie Whelan Browne for defamation over publications in January 2018 relating to claims of misconduct during the 2014 production of the Rocky Horror Show and other productions.McLachlan admitted to jokingly kissing Whelan Browne once on the hips while underneath the bedsheets when trying to find his dropped prop e-cigarette. It was quite a funny stanley mexico moment, he told the court.He denied pulling back Whelan Brownes underwear and kissing her buttocks during that same scene, saying the move was physically and temporally impossible. You did do it, didnt you Mr McLachlan Hodge said.
