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A pupil has been expelled from the £44,000-a-year Abingdon School after sending an image of Nazis to his Jewish classmate, making rape threats on TikTok and posting a video mocking the Black Lives Matter movement. Documents and emails from the independent Oxfordshire school detail the extent of several 'highly-offensive' jokes the boy, 15, made via Snapchat and TikTok. It is understood the pupil, who is studying for his GCSE exams at the all-boys school, has admitted to sending the controversial messages and apologised.  Despite this, Abingdon School confirmed to MailOnline that he has bee...

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Alleged inaction One wrote that when she and another girl said they were raped by the same boy, “all that happened... was my perpetrator’s parents got called in and told about these allegations, and nothing else... He then carried on to sexually assault one more girl that I know of.” Another said when she told a teacher she was raped by a fellow pupil, they responded by “trying to suggest it wasn’t as bad as what it was. In the end, near to nothing happened and I had to deal with being in the same English class as him for the rest of the year.”

Male teachers and boys must be taught about sexism to support women and girls facing 'overwhelming levels' of sexual harassment and abuse, a union conference was told today. The National Education Union's (NEU) annual conference heard that a 'toxic laddish culture' pervades the country's secondary schools and sexism 'stalks the corridors and classrooms'. A motion passed at the conference said schools should have 'robust sexual harassment and abuse policies' in place so teachers and students feel safe. It noted the thousands of testimonials posted anonymously by students on the Everyone's Invi...

Watchdog to inspect private schools caught up in ‘rape culture’ scandal Ofsted will investigate safeguarding policies after students make hundreds of allegations of sexual assault and harassment 7 April 2021 • 7:57pm Among hundreds of allegations posted online, many showed that girls felt unable to report sexual abuse to their schools (picture posed by models) Private schools at the heart of the “rape culture” row will be inspected by Ofsted to ensure teachers did not preside over a cover-up. Inspectors will visit some of the country’s leading institutions and quiz headteachers ab...