There needs to be a louder public conversation about the ways in which the media perpetuates political myths about children and young people... And children in schools are constantly blamed for failings in the schooling system.
You know the drill: your teacher asks you to compose a poem, you drum your fingers for a few hours and come up with something sickly sweet and frankly...
The school leavers' ball, fondly known as "prom" is supposed to be the time where caterpillars emerge from cocoons as butterflies, ugly ducklings are ...