Ratcliffe was notified by her school way back in November that China.org had hired her and would put her and other interns up in an apartment in Beijing, within walking distance to work.
One London teacher told the BBC News website she was surprised to be told by her school that if teachers spotted such signs they should "ignore them, because self-harming is a phase they usually grow out of".
How do these issues tend to play out when a student either alleges, or is proven to have been, abused on a racial basis by his or her school?
Suzy, born to privilege and clearly destined to be a highflier, lost altitude by quitting her boarding school at 16 and going to Paris, where she worked for a while as a secretary.
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For years, Inderjit had commuted to her school by taking the train.
Imani, who was a pupil at Fircroft Primary School in Tooting, suffered from sickle cell anaemia and had been given permission by the school for her extended trip to Jamaica.
Harriet Harman, who was Mr Blair's first social-security secretary, outraged her colleagues by sending her son to a selective grammar school.
She's still sorting through all the emotions that come up around her father's history, but she's trying to stay positive and make her family proud by finishing school.
Bim got involved in running Playhouse, a pre-school started by her sister in Delhi, but that was always a part-time activity which she gave up only last year.
"I love Malawi, I am committed to help end poverty here, " the pop star said as school children, joined by hundreds of villagers, danced around her at the school.
Tatiana, 9, is being raised by her grandmother, but a family friend has brought her to school today, along with her 5-year-old, Marguida.
Dugard was kidnapped by Phillip Garrido on her way to school at age 11, and imprisoned for 18 years, giving birth to two children in the process.
Felicia Garcia, a 15-year-old New York student, threw herself in front of a train in October, allegedly after being taunted by multiple football players at her high school.
They had the idea after Olga Block came to Arizona from her native Czech Republic, looked for a school for her daughter and was horrified by the mediocrity and low expectations at American public schools.
Six years ago, Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin), a guarded thirty-year-old corporate lawyer, fell for Dex (Colin Egglesfield), her law-school study partner, but stood idly by as he took up with her lifelong best friend, the loud, aggressive, uninhibited Darcy (Kate Hudson).
He also went to the nursery school used by one of her children, she said.
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Talk to the single teacher raising two kids who was told by her principal in the last week of school that because of the Recovery Act, she wouldn't be laid off after all.
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Al-Ghnaimi said one of her female cousins who studies at the Khan Younis school defies the edict by not wearing a robe, though she does cover her hair with a scarf.
Michelle Knight, now 32 years old, Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23, have yet to speak publicly about their ordeal since Monday, when they were discovered at a Cleveland house owned by a former school-bus driver, following an escape by Ms. Berry and her 6-year-old daughter.
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On Tuesday at the Richard home, a 10-year-old girl who went to school with Martin came by with her mother.
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Dawn Hepburn was so intimidated and upset by the appeals panel at her first-choice school that she left the room in tears.
Boyd says she conceived of Schoola when reading about the devastating tax shortfalls and concomitant budget cuts that dropped public school funding by 21% in her home state of California (not to mention Arizona, Hawaii, and South Carolina too).
She is said to have been profoundly affected by her parents' divorce while she was still in school.
As it grew near the end, and time to return to school, I prepared her day by day for my departure.
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At back-to-school nights, her parents stood by themselves while the younger parents exerted a kind of hysterical energy toward one another.
Esther practised on past papers and took the exam in a private room in the secondary school, monitored by three examiners and her mother.
An 82-year-old woman is in hospital with serious injuries after a "despicable attack" by a man who tried to rob her near a school.
Her own Cleveland High School helped out by setting up an account for the school's management of financial donations -- for disc purchases, packing supplies, and shipping costs.
Because she had so little time to mature and give herself a chance to experience her current school, she was rejected by every school she applied to for transfer.
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