Olivia Colman’s private school has withdrawn its application to put up 25 blue plaques celebrating ‘prominent’ ex-pupils after it was blasted for including just one woman and Soviet spy Donald Maclean. Gresham’s School – which costs up to £36,000-a-year – applied to put up plaques celebrating a selection of ‘prominent’ alumni on its Old School House … Read more
Former students at a school in North Yorkshire have claimed that a culture of casual racism, sexism, homophobia and bigotry went unchallenged by some members of staff for years. In an open letter, members of Conscious Raising Ryedale, slammed Lady Lumley’s School in Pickering and issued it with a number of anti-bullying recommendations following their own … Read more
Hundreds of ex-pupils accuse £40,000-a-year girls’ school of racism after it promoted its new flower garden instead of acknowledging US race protests St Mary’s Calne School in Wiltshire was accused of racism by its former students One student said a teacher at the school repeatedly used the ‘N-word’ in class The school disabled comments and … Read more