At parents' requests, sensible schools are providing peanut-free lunch tables, and teachers are taught how to administer adrenaline shots if someone were to have a severe allergic reaction.

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You can sign the petition supporting the girls and teachers who are demanding they go to school free of intimidation and violence at www.educationenvoy.org.

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We have significantly reduced bureaucracy, given more autonomy to schools than ever before through our academy and free school programmes and are ensuring good teachers are better recognised through the pay system.

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So, for now, it looks like Missouri students are free to give their teachers an apple and send them a Facebook friend request on the first day of school Monday.

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America's third- largest state just enacted a law permitting the creation of charter schools, which can be set up by concerned teachers, parents or not-for- profit groups and are free from education-stifling, bureaucratic restrictions.

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Free schools are semi-independent state schools set up and run by parents, teachers and charities.

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The Utah Shooting Sports Council and the Utah-based website opsgear.com are offering a free shooting class this week to teachers.

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Now that schools are peanut-free, latex-free and soda-free, parents, administrators and teachers have got to worry about something.

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Or how about the experiment suggested by Sir Peter Newsam, a former head of London University's Institute of Education, for initiative-free zones, where head teachers are left to run schools without constant meddling from local authorities and ministers?

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