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Politics
Why Taiwo Owatemi’s powerful speech on feeding families is going viral
It comes after yesterday’s debate around extending free school meals.
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- Hollie Richardson
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Life
Why it’s totally OK to feel angry and frustrated about today’s A-level results
“Basically: it’s a shit situation, it’s unfair and the outrage is absolutely understandable.”
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- Hollie Richardson
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Opinion
Can Marcus Rashford’s campaign break the stigma around money and poverty shame?
Free school meals only scratch the surface of a much bigger issue.
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- Hollie Richardson
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Life
Marcus Rashford’s open letter to the government has ensured meals for school children
He has shared his own experience of growing up on free school meals.
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- Hollie Richardson
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- Kayleigh Dray
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Are you smart enough to pass the 11+ grammar school test?
Pencils at the ready, everyone….
Life
This viral hashtag reminds us teachers are coronavirus heroes, too
Show this to the next idiot who says teachers only do it “for the long holidays”.
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- Kayleigh Dray
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People
Teachers are using Lizzo songs to empower their students and it’s so pure
A video of young children singing along to Truth Hurts has gone viral, and the internet is officially good again.
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- Hannah-Rose Yee
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Life
Period poverty in the UK: 1 in 5 young girls are being bullied at school, here’s how you can help
Male classmates are calling them "dirty" and "disgusting"
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- Megan Murray
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Life
How teen girls are standing up to boys who rank them based on their looks
When a sexist list ranking girls’ looks circulated at one high school, the girls fought back.
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
Made By Girls: “Why adults need to stop stifling girls’ creativity”
12-year-old Joely argues that teenagers should be given the same artistic freedom as children
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- Made By Girls
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Life
A poem about International Day of the Girl, by 11-year-old Scarlett
This young writer has penned a powerful acrostic poem
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- Made By Girls
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- Moya Crockett
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#WhenIWas: Women share stories of the first time they were harassed in public
The hashtag came off the back of the news that a third of UK girls have been harassed in their school uniform.
People
Channel 4 newsreader Cathy Newman: I was sexually assaulted as a teenager by a boy in my school
"Your instinct is to sort of laugh it off and then question whether you were to blame"
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- Anna Brech
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Long Reads
Alesha Dixon has a simple, yet powerful, solution to period poverty
137,000 girls in the UK are regularly missing school because they can’t afford sanitary protection. That needs to change
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- Alesha Dixon
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Life
Why this school has now revoked its ‘modesty poncho’ for prom
Because sometimes social media wins.
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- Susan Devaney
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Long Reads
Laura Bates on why we urgently need better sex education in schools
"Some biology textbooks don’t include the clitoris, because why would girls need to know about that?"
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- Stylist Team
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People
Headteacher tells girls not to wear leggings if they're above a size 6
“Even though you’re not fat, you look fat”
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
How being popular at school affects mental health in adulthood
Turns out being the queen bee isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
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- Moya Crockett
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- Megan Murray
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High school boys support female students against sexist dress code
And this is how it’s done
Life
Facebook post reveals why we shouldn’t celebrate 100% work attendance
A post for anyone battling illness at their desk
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- Kayleigh Dray
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