But while most schools have been dealing with the issue of food allergies for some time with parents actively advocating for their children, the workplace represents a new challenge.

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You have to remember that this is a problem of scale, the DfE used to have to deal with a few schools a year now they are dealing with hundreds a year.

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Andra Hutchins, a Massachusetts lawyer specializing in representing students facing expulsion, says schools can be too heavy-handed in dealing with errant behavior.

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Snap Cymru is a charity dealing with children who have been excluded from schools.

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School-Based Partnership grants in the 1990s paid police agencies to send officers into schools in order to reduce school-related crimes such as drug dealing or alcohol use on campus.

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And while there's a great deal of money being poured into schools, it's not clear there's any focus on dealing with the disproportionate number of boys left behind.

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However, methods of dealing with corporate politics are not taught in executive education courses or graduate schools.

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In fact, Mr. Cheese, now a sophomore in high school with hopes of becoming a lawyer, provides a model in dealing with the sort of jerks who will always, unfortunately, be a presence in our schools.

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